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Life is an earnest business, and no one every became good or great on a diet of broad grins.
-Professor Blackie
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For everything that lives is holy, life delights in life.
-William Blake
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We come into this world head first and go out feet first; in between, it is all a matter of balance.
-Paul Boese
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Man that is born of woman hath but a short time to live, and is full of misery. He comet up, and is cut down, like a flower; he fleeth as it were a shadow, and never continueth in one stay.
-Book Of Common Prayer
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It is not how many years we live, but rather what we do with them.
-Evangeline Cory Booth
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There's night and day, brother, both sweet things; sun, moon, and stars, brother, all sweet things; there's likewise a wind on the heath. Life is very sweet, brother; who would wish to die?
-George Borrow
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The question is not whether we will die, but how we will live.
-Joan Borysenko
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The essential conditions of everything you do must be choice, love, passion.
-Nadia Boulanger
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Youth is too tumultuous for felicity; old age too insecure for happiness. The period most favorable to enjoyment, in a vigorous, fortunate, and generous life, is that between forty and sixty.
-Christian Nevell Bovee
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Life is trying things to see if they work.
-Ray Bradbury
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If you enjoy living, it is not difficult to keep the sense of wonder.
-Ray Bradbury
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If you will just start with the idea that this is a hard world,it will all be much simpler.
-Louis D. Brandeis
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Don't be afraid of death so much as an inadequate life.
-Bertolt Brecht
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It is living and ceasing to live that are imaginary solutions. Existence is elsewhere.
-Andre Breton
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Life, the way it really is, is a battle not between Bad and Good but between Bad and Worse.
-Joseph Brodsky
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What should I say about life? That it's long and abhors transparence.
-Joseph Brodsky
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Man does not live by bread alone, even presliced bread.
-D. W. Brogan, on decline of US baking industry
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Life...is not simply a series of exciting new ventures. The future is not always a whole new ball game. There tends to be unfinished business. One trails all sorts of things around with one, things that simply won't be got rid of.
-Anita Brookner
Lewis Percy, ch. 14, 1989
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Look, I really don't want to wax philosophic, but I will say that if you're alive, you've got to flap your arms and legs, you've got to jump around a lot, you've got to make a lot of noise, because life is the very opposite of death.
-Mel Brooks
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Be such a man, and live such a life, that if every man were such as you, and every life a life like yours, this earth would be God's Paradise.
-Phillips Brooks
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The tragedy of life is not that a man loses, but that he almost wins.
-Heywood Broun
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I believe that life is a journey, often difficult and sometimes incredibly cruel, but we are well equipped for it if only we tap into our talents and gifts and allow them to blossom.
-Les Brown
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About all you can do in life is be who you are. Some people will love you for you. Most will love you for what you can do for them, and some won't like you at all.
-Rita Mae Brown
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Life is a glass given to us to fill; a busy life is filling it with as much as it can hold; a hurried life has had more poured into it than it can contain.
-William Adams Brown
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Life is pure flame.
-Sir Thomas Browne
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Books about Life
