Life quotes
Quotations about life itself, from Shakespeare’s stage and Dickens’s best and worst of times to Whitman’s multitudes and Beckett’s nothing to be done. Life is quoted constantly and sourced rarely, so each entry names its earliest verifiable source and the character who says it, since the speaker is often not the author.
Training is everything. The peach was once a bitter almond; cauliflower is nothing but cabbage with a college education.
We are such stuff / As dreams are made on, and our little life / Is rounded with a sleep.
Heaven knows we need never be ashamed of our tears, for they are rain upon the blinding dust of earth, overlying our hard hearts.
What you do not want done to yourself, do not do to others.
Where there is sorrow there is holy ground.
Why, this is hell, nor am I out of it:
Work is love made visible.
There is only one thing in the world worse than being talked about, and that is not being talked about.
Your children are not your children. / They are the sons and daughters of Life’s longing for itself.