200+ Deep Life Quotes That Hit Different in 2025

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We have compiled Famous Quotes on Life, truth quotes about life, and beautiful quotes & sayings from famous people around the world to get inspired.

If you want to read some life advice. These life quotes will inspire you to the core and help you live a quality and content life.

People don't always want to be with people. It gets tiring.

Emma Donoghue

Yea, all things live forever, though at times they sleep and are forgotten.

H. Rider Haggard

It would be so nice if something made sense for a change.

Lewis Carroll

I've got nothing to do today but smile.

Paul Simon

Who says life is fair, where is that written?

William Goldman

Luxury is not a necessity to me, but beautiful and good things are.

Anaïs Nin

You enter the forestat the darkest point,where there is no path.Where there is a way or path,it is someone else's path.You are not on your own path.If you follow someone else's way,you are not going to realizeyour potential.

Joseph Campbell

The absence of the will to live is, alas, not sufficient to make one want to die.

Michel Houellebecq

Oh threats of Hell and Hopes of Paradise!One thing at least is certain - This Life flies;One thing is certain and the rest is Lies -The Flower that once has blown forever dies.

Omar Khayyám

Even a happy life cannot be without a measure of darkness, and the word happy would lose its meaning if it were not balanced by sadness.

C.G. Jung

It is a fine thing to establish one's own religion in one's heart, not to be dependent on tradition and second-hand ideals. Life will seem to you, later, not a lesser, but a greater thing.

D.H. Lawrence

All I am is literature, and I am not able or willing to be anything else.

Franz Kafka

How quick come the reasons for approving what we like.

Jane Austen

Well, I like to eat, sleep, drink, and be in love.I like to work, read, learn, and understand life.

Langston Hughes

When you arise in the morning think of what a privilege it is to be alive, to think, to enjoy, to love ...

Marcus Aurelius

Anything can happen in life, especially nothing.

Michel Houellebecq

What other people think and say about you is none of your business. The most destructive thing you would ever do is to believe someone else's opinion of you. You have to stop letting other people's opinions control you.

Roy T. Bennett

That was the thing. You never got used to it, the idea of someone being gone. Just when you think it's reconciled, accepted, someone points it out to you, and it just hits you all over again, that shocking.

Sarah Dessen

Don’t let the noise of others’ opinions drown out your own inner voice. [Stanford University commencement speech, 2005]

Steve Jobs

I'm sure the universe is full of intelligent life. It's just been too intelligent to come here.

Arthur C. Clarke

Life' wrote a friend of mine, 'is a public performance on the violin, in which you must learn the instrument as you go along.

E.M. Forster

L'éternité, c'est long ... surtout vers la fin.

Franz Kafka

You've never lived what you are thinking, and that isn't good. Only the ideas we actually live are of any value.

Hermann Hesse

I run after her, not really giving chase. I’m running because I can, because I must.Because I want to see how far I can go before I have to stop.

Libba Bray

The more I live, the more I learn. The more I learn, the more I realize, the less I know.

Michel Legrand

It’s too bad if a heart lacks fire,and is deprived of the light of a heart ablaze.The day on which you arewithout passionate loveis the most wasted day of your life.

Omar Khayyám

Politeness is organized indifference.

Paul Valéry

I have looked in the mirror every morning and asked myself: "If today were the last day of my life, would I want to do what I am about to do today?" And whenever the answer has been "No" for too many days in a row, I know I need to change something.

Steve Jobs

Drink your tea slowly and reverently, as if it is the axis on which the world earth revolves - slowly, evenly, without rushing toward the future.

Thich Nhat Hanh

Life isn't fair, it's just fairer than death, that's all.

William Goldman

It’s probably my job to tell you life isn’t fair, but I figure you already know that. So instead, I’ll tell you that hope is precious, and you’re right not to give up.

C.J. Redwine

We're so engaged in doing things to achieve purposes of outer value that we forget the inner value, the rapture that is associated with being alive, is what it is all about.

Joseph Campbell

Oh, God of Dust and Rainbows,Help us to seeThat without the dust the rainbowWould not be.

Langston Hughes

But we can't go back. We can only go forward.

Libba Bray

The outer world is a reflection of the inner world. Other people’s perception of you is a reflection of them; your response to them is an awareness of you.

Roy T. Bennett

But that was the problem with having the answers. It was only after you gave them that you realized they sometimes weren't what people wanted to hear.

Sarah Dessen

Your time is limited, so don't waste it living someone else's life.

Steve Jobs

Life is ours to be spent, not tobe saved.

D.H. Lawrence

There are two primary choices in life: to accept conditions as they exist, or accept the responsibility for changing them

Denis Waitley

I began to understand that suffering and disappointments and melancholy are there not to vex us or cheapen us or deprive us of our dignity but to mature and transfigure us.

Hermann Hesse

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