Life Quotes

Whomever lives, gambles with life.

Life is a beautiful, magnificent thing, even to a jellyfish.

Life can be wonderful if you're not afraid of it. All it needs is courage, imagination ... and a little dough.

Whiskey! Never tasted such beastly stuff in my life! In a civilized country they drink wine

This is a ruthless world and one must be ruthless to cope with it.

I suppose that's one of the ironies of life doing the wrong thing at the right moment.

What do you want meaning for? Life is desire, not meaning.

Life is a tragedy when seen in close-up, but a comedy in long-shot.

Nothing is permanent in this wicked world - not even our troubles.

How so many absurd rules of conduct, as well as so many absurd religious beliefs, have originated, we do not know; nor how it is that they have become, in all quarters of the world, so deeply impressed on the minds of men; but it is worthy of remark that a belief constantly inculcated during the early years of life, while the brain is impressionable, appears to acquire almost the nature of an instinct; and the very essence of an instinct is that it is followed independently of reason.

Much love much trial, but what an utter desert is life without love.

From the first dawn of life, all organic beings are found to resemble each other in descending degrees, so that they can be classed in groups under groups. This classification is evidently not arbitrary like the grouping of stars in constellations.

It is mere rubbish thinking, at present, of origin of life; one might as well think of origin of matter.

How have all those exquisite adaptations of one part of the organisation to another part, and to the conditions of life, and of one organic being to another being, been perfected?

Nothing is easier than to admit in words the truth of the universal struggle for life, or more difficult, at least I have found it so, than constantly to bear this conclusion in mind.

Sexual selection acts in a less rigorous manner than natural selection. The latter produces its effects by the life or death at all ages of the more or less successful individuals.

But a plant on the edge of a deserts is said to struggle for life against the drought, though more properly it should be said to be dependent upon the moisture.

Natural Selection almost inevitably causes much Extinction of the less improved forms of life and induces what I have called Divergence of Character.

We cannot fathom the marvelous complexity of an organic being; but on the hypothesis here advanced this complexity is much increased. Each living creature must be looked at as a microcosm--a little universe, formed of a host of self-propagating organisms, inconceivably minute and as numerous as the stars in heaven.

Nothing exists for itself alone, but only in relation to other forms of life.