Gilbert K. Chesterton Life Quotations

The true object of all human life is play. Earth is a task garden; heaven is a playground.

Youth is the period in which a man can be hopeless. The end of every episode is the end of the world. But the power of hoping through everything, the knowledge that the soul survives its adventures, that great inspiration comes to the middle-aged.

When it comes to life the critical thing is whether you take things for granted or take them with gratitude.

Do not free a camel of the burden of his hump; you may be freeing him from being a camel.

The Bible tells us to love our neighbors, and also to love our enemies; probably because generally they are the same people.

A great curse has fallen upon modern life with the discovery of the vastness of the word Education.

Romance is the deepest thing in life. It is deeper than reality.

Adventure is the champagne of life.

The true object of human life is play.

Life is not an illogicality; yet it is a trap for logicians. It looks just a little more mathematical and regular than it is; its exactitude is obvious, but its inexactitude is hidden; its wildness lies in wait.

To say that a man is an idealist is merely to say that he is a man.

There are two ways to get enough. One is to continue to accumulate more and more. The other is to desire less.

An inconvenience is an adventure wrongly considered.

The true soldier fights not because he hates what is in front of him, but because he loves what is behind him.

My life is passed in making bad jokes and seeing them turn into true prophecies.

Life is indeed terribly complicated—to a man who has lost his principles.

What life and death may be to a turkey is not my business; but the soul of Scrooge and the body of Cratchit are my business.

A really great person is the person who makes every person feel great.

I am not absentminded. It is the presence of mind that makes me unaware of everything else.

One of the great disadvantages of hurry is that it takes such a long time.