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The optimist proclaims that we live in the best of all possible worlds, and the pessimist fears this is true.
-James Branch Cabell
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Life is full and overflowing with the new. But it is necessary to empty out the old to make room for the new to enter.
-Eileen Caddy
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In between goals is a thing called life, that has to be lived and enjoyed.
-Sid Caesar
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What is life? A frenzy. What is life? An illusion, a shadow, a fiction. And the greatest good is trivial; for all life is a dream and all dreams are dreams.
-Pedro Calderon de la Barca
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The surrender of life is nothing to sinking down into acknowledgment of inferiority.
-John C. Calhoun
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People say that what we're all seeking is a meaning for life... I think that what we're really seeking is an experience of being alive, so that our life experiences on the purely physical plane will have resonance within our innermost being and reality, so that we can actually feel the rapture of being alive.
-Joseph Campbell
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It seems to have had an order, to have been composed by someone, and those events that were merely accidental when they happened turn out to be the main elements in a consistent plot. Who composed this plot? Just as your dreams are composed, so your whole life has been composed by the will within you. Just as the people who you met by chance became effective agents in the structuring of your life, so you have been the agent in the structuring of other lives. And the whole thing gears together like one big symphony, everything influencing and structuring everything else. It's as though our lives were the dream of a single dreamer in which all of the dream characters are dreaming too. And so everything links to everything else moved out of the will in nature...It is as though there were an intention behind it yet it is all by chance. None of us lives the life that he had intended.
-Joseph Campbell
source uncertain: apparently in an interview with Bill Moyers,
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It is by going down into the abyss that we recover the treasures of life. Where you stumble, there lies your treasure.
-Joseph Campbell
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Live to the point of tears.
-Albert Camus
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In order to exist just once in the world, it is necessary never again to exist.
-Albert Camus
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Accept life, take it as it is? Stupid. The means of doing otherwise? Far from our having to take it, it is life that possesses us and on occasion shuts our mouths.
-Albert Camus
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We get into the habit of living before acquiring the habit of thinking. In that race which daily hastens us towards death, the body maintains its irreparable lead.
-Albert Camus
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Real generosity toward the future lies in giving all to the present.
-Albert Camus
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If, after all, men cannot always make history have meaning, they can always act so that their own lives have one.
-Albert Camus
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Man wants to live, but it is useless to hope that this desire will dictate all his actions.
-Albert Camus
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One should not confuse the craving for life with endorsement of it.
-Elias Canetti
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Life is a moderately good play with a badly written third act.
-Truman Capote
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In private life I never knew anyone interfere with other people's disputes but he heartily repented of it.
-Thomas Carlyle
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Life is a little gleam of time between two eternity s.
-Thomas Carlyle
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One of the most appalling comments on our present way of life is that half of all the beds in our hospitals are reserved for patients with nervous and mental troubles, patients who have collapsed under the crushing burden of accumulated yesterdays and fearful tomorrows. Yet a vast majority of those people would be walking the streets today, leading happy, useful lives, if they had only heeded the words of Jesus: Have no anxiety about the morrow; or the words of Sir William Osler; Live in day-tight compartments.
-Dale Carnegie
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One of the most tragic things I know about human nature is that all of us tend to put off living. We are all dreaming of some magical rose garden over the horizon--instead of enjoying the roses that are blooming outside our windows today.
-Dale Carnegie
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Life is very interesting if you make mistakes.
-Georges Carpentier
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If life was fair, Elvis would be alive and all the impersonators would be dead.
-Johnny Carson
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Those who dwell among the beauties and mysteries of the Earth are never alone or weary of life.
-Rachel Carson
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We should live our lives as though Christ were coming this afternoon.
-Jimmy Carter
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Books about Life
