Famous Quotes

"Literature adds to reality, it does not simply describe it. It enriches the necessary competencies that daily life requires and provides and in this respect, it irrigates the deserts that our lives have already become."

C. S. Lewis on Life

More quotes about Life

• "In three words I can sum up everything I've learned about life: it goes on."

  Robert Frost on Life

• "Do not dwell in the past, do not dream of the future, concentrate the mind on the present moment."

  Buddha on Life

• "Throughout life people will make you mad, disrespect you and treat you bad. Let God deal with the things they do, cause hate in your heart will consume you too."

  Will Smith on Life

• "Life is a song - sing it. Life is a game - play it. Life is a challenge - meet it. Life is a dream - realize it. Life is a sacrifice - offer it. Life is love - enjoy it."

  Sai Baba on Life

• "A life spent making mistakes is not only more honorable, but more useful than a life spent doing nothing."

  George Bernard Shaw on Life

More quotes by C. S. Lewis

• "How incessant and great are the ills with which a prolonged old age is replete."

• "Friendship is unnecessary, like philosophy, like art... It has no survival value rather it is one of those things that give value to survival."

• "Even in literature and art, no man who bothers about originality will ever be original: whereas if you simply try to tell the truth (without caring twopence how often it has been told before) you will, nine times out of ten, become original without ever having noticed it."

• "Thirty was so strange for me. I've really had to come to terms with the fact that I am now a walking and talking adult."

• "It may be hard for an egg to turn into a bird: it would be a jolly sight harder for it to learn to fly while remaining an egg. We are like eggs at present. And you cannot go on indefinitely being just an ordinary, decent egg. We must be hatched or go bad."