Oscar Wilde Quotes on Life (76 Quotes)

To become the spectator of one's own life is to escape the suffering of life.

Keep love in your heart. A life without it is like a sunless garden when the flowers are dead.

If you are not too long, I will wait here for you all my life.

Life is one fool thing after another whereas love is two fool things after each other.

Fathers should be neither seen nor heard. That is the only proper basis for family life.

There are only two tragedies in life: one is not getting what one wants, and the other is getting it.

There is only one real tragedy in a woman's life. The fact that her past is always her lover, and her future invariably her husband.

In a very ugly and sensible age, the arts borrow, not from life, but from each other.

Faithfulness is to the emotional life what consistency is to the life of the intellect - simply a confession of failures

The stage is not merely the meeting place of all the arts, but is also the return of art to life.

The first duty in life is to be as artificial as possible. What the second duty is no one has yet discovered.

When I was young I used to think that money was the most important thing in life now that I am old, I know it is.

The soul is born old but grows young. That is the comedy of life. And the body is born young and grows old. That is life's tragedy.

Life is too important to be taken seriously.

The secret of life is to appreciate the pleasure of being terribly deceived

Don't tell me that you have exhausted Life. When a man says that, one knows that life has exhausted him.

The first duty of life is to be as artificial as possible. What the second duty is no one as yet discovered.

LORD ILLINGWORTH. The Book of Life begins with a man and a woman in a garden. MRS ALLONBY. It ends with Revelations.

Misfortunes one can endure -- they come from outside, they are accidents. But to suffer for one's own faults -- Ah there is the sting of life.

When I was young I thought that money was the most important thing in life; now that I am old I know that it is.

Death must be so beautiful. To lie in the soft brown earth, with the grasses waving above one's head, and listen to silence. To have no yesterday, and no to-morrow. To forget time, to forgive life, to be at peace.

As for a spoiled life, no life is spoiled but one whose growth is arrested.

Literature always anticipates life. It does not copy it, but molds it to its purpose.

Life is far too important a thing ever to talk seriously about.

Bad artists always admire each other's work. They call it being large-minded and free from prejudice. But a truly great artist cannot conceive of life being shown, or beauty fashioned, under any conditions other than those he has selected.

The secret of life is never to have an emotion that is unbecoming.