Quotes: Life (6)

Life 70 "Our years, our debts and our enemies are always more numerous than we imagine." Charles Nodier. 1780-1844. Gross, ed. Oxford Book of Aphorisms.

Life 80 When we care for anything too deeply, everything else becomes the enemy. "The moment we care for anything deeply, the world—that is, all the other miscellaneous interests—becomes our enemy." G. K. Chesterton. 1905. Gross, ed. Oxford Book of Aphorisms.

Life 81 We can never be happy if we are too sensitive. "It must be admitted that there are some parts of the soul which we must entirely paralyze before we can live happily in this world." Chamfort. 1805. Gross, ed. Oxford Book of Aphorisms.

Life 85 People go on living without concern for your broken heart. "You may break your heart, but men will still go on as before." Marcus Aurelius. 2nd century. Gross, ed. Oxford Book of Aphorisms.

Life 100 Only God and angels can be observers in life. "But men must know, that in this theater of man’s life it is reserved only for God and angels to be lookers on." Sir Francis Bacon. 1605. Gross, ed. Oxford Book of Aphorisms.

Life 139 The concerns of the moment vanish along with the people involved in them. "Think of the myriad enmities, suspicions, animosities, and conflicts that are now vanished with the dust and ashes of the men who knew them; and fret no more." Marcus Aurelius. 2nd century. Gross, ed. Oxford Book of Aphorisms.

Life 231 Summary of life? "…the waves of fulfillment, disappointment, right guesses, and wrong moves that make up our daily life." E. H. Gombrich. 1960. Gross, ed. Oxford Book of Aphorisms.

Life 332 It's not the great tragedies that take up life, but the little annoyances that waste our time. "What uses up a life is not so much its great tragedies as its small annoyances and the recurrent waste of time." Henry De Motherlant. 1930-44. Gross, ed. Oxford Book of Aphorisms.

Life 347 "The most precious thing in life is its uncertainty." Yoshida Kenko. 1340. Gross, ed. Oxford Book of Aphorisms.

Life 347 Life is short. "All of us are creatures of a day; the rememberer and the remembered alike." Marcus Aurelius. 2nd century. Gross, ed. Oxford Book of Aphorisms.