Quotes about life

Decadence attracts me. It suggests a new world, and, for me, society’s struggle between life and death is absolutely beautiful.

Yves Saint Laurent

I’ve kept journals at many times in my life starting from when I was about 13 or 14. But it’s boring and contrived to keep a journal every day. Better to write as the mood strikes.

Erica Jong

It’s up to you to carve out your place, to know when to change course, and to keep yourself engaged and productive during a work life that may span some 50 years.

Peter Drucker

The cost of a thing is the amount of what I call life which is required to be exchanged for it, immediately or in the long run.

Henry David Thoreau

It’s me, and I love me. I learned to love me. I’ve been like this my whole life, and I embrace me. I love how I look. I love that I’m a full woman and I’m strong and I’m powerful and I’m beautiful at the same time. There’s nothing wrong with that.

Serena Williams

My life should be unique; it should be an alms, a battle, a conquest, a medicine.

Ralph Waldo Emerson

The greatest thing in life is to die young – but delay it as long as possible.

George Bernard Shaw

I’m cynical about society, politics, newspapers, government. But I’m not cynical about life, love, goodness, death. That’s why I really don’t want to be labeled a cynic.

John Lennon

I enjoyed the discipline and solitariness of long-distance running, which allowed me to escape from the hurly-burly of school life.

Nelson Mandela

No art can conquer the people alone – the people are conquered by an ideal of life upheld by authority.

W. B. Yeats