Comedy aims at representing men as worse, tragedy as better than in actual life.
—Aristotle
It is of the nature of desire not to be satisfied, and most men live only for the gratification of it.
—Aristotle
Men create gods after their own image, not only with regard to their form, but with regard to their mode of life.
—Aristotle
It’s not fun to live in the world,
If the heart has no one to love.
—Taras Shevchenko
The energy of the mind is the essence of life.
—Aristotle
Life is a tragedy when seen in close-up, but a comedy in long-shot.
—Charlie Chaplin
The way of life can be free and beautiful. But we have lost the way.
—Charlie Chaplin
Life is a play that does not allow testing. So, sing, cry, dance, laugh and live intensely, before the curtain closes and the piece ends with no applause.
—Charlie Chaplin
We think too much and feel too little. More than machinery, we need humanity; more than cleverness, we need kindness and gentleness. Without these qualities, life will be violent and all will be lost.
—Charlie Chaplin
Movies are a fad. Audiences really want to see live actors on a stage.
—Charlie Chaplin
Life can be wonderful if you’re not afraid of it. All it takes is courage, imagination … and a little dough.
—Charlie Chaplin
Think about yourself at least once in your life otherwise you may miss the best comedy in this world.
—Charlie Chaplin
I suppose that’s one of the ironies of life doing the wrong thing at the right moment.
—Charlie Chaplin
Life could be wonderful if people would leave you alone.
—Charlie Chaplin
The object of life is not to be on the side of the majority, but to escape finding oneself in the ranks of the insane.
—Marcus Aurelius
I have many problems in my life. But my lips don’t know that. They just keep smiling.
—Charlie Chaplin
O may I press forward with renewed diligence and strive more earnestly to make a progress in the way that leadeth unto life eternal, Amen. Amen.
—William Wilberforce
Death must be so beautiful. To lie in the soft brown earth, with the grasses waving above one’s head, and listen to silence. To have no yesterday, and no tomorrow. To forget time, to forgive life, to be at peace.
—Oscar Wilde
How is it they live in such harmony, the billions of stars, when most men can barely go a minute without declaring war in their minds?
—Thomas Aquinas
I will honour Christmas in my heart, and try to keep it all the year. I will live in the Past, the Present, and the Future. The Spirits of all Three shall strive within me. I will not shut out the lessons that they teach.
—Charles Dickens
If this little crumb of life is all you have, then make sure you do all you can with it. Sa’id ibn Khaled
—Leo Tolstoy
I learned this, at least, by my experiment: that if one advances confidently in the direction of his dreams, and endeavors to live the life which he has imagined, he will meet with a success unexpected in common hours.
—Henry David Thoreau
And if your love of God is in any wise decayed, so is also your love of your neighbour. You are then hurt in the very life and spirit of your religion! If you lose love, you lose all.
—John Wesley
Allowing then that a life of religion were a life of misery; that a life of wickedness were a life of happiness; and, that a man were assured of enjoying that happiness for the term of threescore years…
—John Wesley
O turn unto your rest! Turn to Him in whom are hid all the treasures of happiness! Turn unto him who giveth liberally unto all men; and he will give you to drink of the water of life freely.
—John Wesley
There is a God-shaped hole in the life of every man.
—Blaise Pascal
In spite of all opposition, from nature, from the world, from all the powers of darkness, still fight the good fight of faith, and lay hold on eternal life!
—John Wesley
Are you sure of living threescore years? Are you sure of living one year, one month, one week, one day? O make haste to live! Surely the man that may die tonight should live today.
—John Wesley
Don’t part with your illusions. When they are gone you may still exist, but you have ceased to live.
—Mark Twain
O God, how little do I deserve all ye honour thou puttest upon me, but may I be more active in thy service and live more by faith, doing all to the glory of God, and in the name of the Lord Jesus, giving thanks to the Father through him.
—William Wilberforce