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Life Quotes

LifeLife Lessons

459 quotes on life and the lessons it teaches — from the classics to the everyday.

“I am not a morning person. Then again, I'm not really an afternoon or evening person either.”

Garfield · Jim Davis, Garfield comic strip

“It is a common experience that a problem difficult at night is resolved in the morning after the committee of sleep has worked on it.”

John Steinbeck · On Writing, attributed

“The bed is a bundle of paradoxes: we go to it with reluctance, yet we quit it with regret.”

Charles Caleb Colton · Lacon, 1820

“I don't like mornings. They start too early.”

Groucho Marx · widely attributed

“I have a dream that one day I will wake up and feel rested.”

Groucho Marx · widely attributed

“Sleep is good, he said, and books are better.”

George R.R. Martin · A Clash of Kings, 1998

“It is what you read when you don't have to that determines what you will be when you can't help it.”

Oscar Wilde

“Books are a uniquely portable magic.”

Stephen King · On Writing: A Memoir of the Craft, 2000

“If you don't like to read, you haven't found the right book.”

J.K. Rowling

“Reading is to the mind what exercise is to the body.”

Joseph Addison · The Tatler, 1710

“There is no friend as loyal as a book.”

Ernest Hemingway

“I cannot live without books.”

Thomas Jefferson · Letter to John Adams, June 10, 1815

“A reader lives a thousand lives before he dies. The man who never reads lives only one.”

George R.R. Martin · A Dance with Dragons, 2011

“Heartbreak is my greatest inspiration. I wish it wasn't, but it is.”

Oliver Tree

“I've always felt like I existed outside of every group.”

Oliver Tree

“The whole thing is a joke, but the pain is genuine.”

Oliver Tree

“I want people to feel like they're not alone in being a mess.”

Oliver Tree