Famous Quotes & Sayings

George Wald

We have fallen in love with the body. That's that thing that looks back at us from the mirror. That's the repository of that lovely identity that you keep chasing all your life.

George Santayana

Religion is the love of life in the consciousness of impotence.

George Michael

The truth is my love life has been a lot more turbulent than I have let on.

Fyodor Dostoevsky

I think everyone must love life more than anything else in the world.' 'Love life more than the meaning of it?' 'Yes, certainly. Love it regardless of logic, as you say. Yes, most certainly regardless of logic, for only then will I grasp its meaning. That's what I've been vaguely aware of for a long time. Half your work is done, Ivan: you love life. Now you must try to do the second half and you are saved.

Fyodor Dostoevsky

Love life more than the meaning of it?

Fyodor Dostoevsky

One must love life before loving its meaning ... yes, and when the love of life disappears, no meaning can console us.

Gabriel Garcia Marquez

It was a meditation on life, love, old age, death: ideas that had often fluttered around her head like nocturnal birds but dissolved into a trickle of feathers when she tried to catch hold of them.

Francoise Sagan

If you treat life well, life is usually good to you. And I love life. There's a long-standing affair between us.

Ingrid Bergman

One is never too old for romance.

Erich Maria Remarque

We are not youth any longer. We don’t want to take the world by storm. We are fleeing. We fly from ourselves. From our life. We were eighteen and had begun to love life and the world; and we had to shoot it to pieces.

Erich Fromm

. . . freedom to creat and construct, to wonder and to venture. Such freedom requires that the individual be active and responsible, not a slave or a well-fed cog in the machine . . . It is not enough that men are not slaves; if social conditions further the existence of automatons, the result will not be love of life, but love of death.

Erich Fromm

Mobilizing the love of life is the only force that can defeat the love for the dead.

Erich Fromm

Critical and radical thought will only bear fruit when it is blended with the most precious quality man is endowed with - the love of life

Emma Caulfield

I think talking about one's love life is always... It's a Pandora's box, best kept in journals.

Irving Stone

Who loves — lives, who lives - works, and who works has some bread.

Jean de la Bruyere

We hope to grow old and we dread old age; that is to say, we love life and we flee from death.

Jayne Meadows

I just loved and love life. I love it today.

Gary Busey

I love love, and I love life. I love. I just love. It's just great. It's the most enduring element we have is love.

Fulton J. Sheen

Everything that is full of life loves change, for the characteristic of life is movement toward a new goal and urges toward new pleasures

Chris Rose

Mardi Gras is the love of life. It is the harmonic convergence of our food, our music, our creativity, our eccentricity, our neighborhoods, and our joy of living. All at once.

Germaine Greer

Awareness of time as flying has some advantages; it precludes boredom, for one thing. It matters little that younger people find older people boring or slow. Older people have a right to resist being rushed, to stand and stare at the fragile world that has become so unspeakably dear to them. For the lucky ones, who will not have to leave while they are still in love with life, there will come a later time when that passion too will fade, but while one is still possessed by that great tenderness, it must be yielded to.

Harry Emerson Fosdick

Bitterness imprisons life; love releases it.

Jerry Hall

A healthy love life is not and should not be the preserve of those in their 20s and 30s. It's important at all ages.

Gretel Ehrlich

Love life first, then march through the gates of each season; go inside nature and develop the discipline to stop destructive behavior; learn tenderness toward experience, then make decisions based on creating biological wealth that includes all people, animals, cultures, currencies, languages, and the living things as yet undiscovered; listen to the truth the land will tell you; act accordingly.

Gotthold Ephraim Lessing

The most agreeable of all companions is a simple, frank man, without any high pretensions to an oppressive greatness; one who loves life, and understands the use of it; obliging alike at all hours; above all, of a golden temper and steadfast as an anchor. For such an one we gladly exchange the greatest genius, the most brilliant wit, the profoundest thinker.

Jacques Derrida

I love language as I love life itself!

Jennifer Aniston

I love to read about what my love life is really like.

Graham Norton

One of the great things about being gay and out is that the papers couldn't care less about your love life.

Jenna Elfman

I [have] love for others and love for life.

Jenna Elfman

I just kind of understood it, and I threw my love for others and love for life into the character, and was having a blast. I loved playing Dharma. I loved it!

Gilles Marini

The most important thing in your life is to be happy, to be patient and to learn to love life and do everything you can.

Frank Herbert

The flesh surrenders itself. Eternity takes back its own. Our bodies stirred these waters briefly, danced with a certain intoxication before the love of life and self, dealt with a few strange ideas, then submitted to the instruments of Time. What can we say of this? I occurred. I am not...yet, I occurred.

Ella Wheeler Wilcox

The world has a thousand creeds, and never a one have I; Nor church of my own, though a million spires are pointing the way on high. But I float on the bosom of faith, that bears me along like a river; And the lamp of my soul is alight with love, for life, and the world, and the Giver.