Instagram is about showing your best self so combine your perfect picture with a motivational quote about life in captions.
The best way to show your followers how much you appreciate life and how happy and content you are is to take a break from the funny captions and quote someone inspirational. Inspire others to be better with some of the life quotes below –
Quotes about life for Instagram captions
- “In three words I can sum up everything I’ve learned about life: it goes on.” ― Robert Frost
- “I don’t know the question, but sex is definitely the answer.” ― Woody Allen
- “Life is pain, highness. Anyone who says differently is selling something.” ― William Goldman, William Goldman: Four Screenplays with Essays
- “The saddest aspect of life right now is that science gathers knowledge faster than society gathers wisdom.” ― Isaac Asimov
- “It does not do to dwell on dreams and forget to live.” ― J.K. Rowling, Harry Potter and the Sorcerer’s Stone
- “I may not have gone where I intended to go, but I think I have ended up where I needed to be.” – Douglas Adams, The Long Dark Tea-Time of the Soul
- “It may be unfair, but what happens in a few days, sometimes even a single day, can change the course of a whole lifetime…” ― Khaled Hosseini, The Kite Runner
- “If you don’t know where you’re going, any road’ll take you there” ― George Harrison
- “Where there is love there is life.” ― Mahatma Gandhi
- “Be mindful. Be grateful. Be positive. Be true. Be kind.” ― Roy T. Bennett, The Light in the Heart
- “To live is the rarest thing in the world. Most people exist, that is all.” ― Oscar Wilde
- “We have to dare to be ourselves, however frightening or strange that self may prove to be.” ― May Sarton
- “Remember: the time you feel lonely is the time you most need to be by yourself. Life’s cruelest irony.” ― Douglas Coupland, Shampoo Planet
- “All the world is made of faith, and trust, and pixie dust.” ― J.M. Barrie, Peter Pan
- “The fear of death follows from the fear of life. A man who lives fully is prepared to die at any time.” ― Mark Twain
- “It is better to be hated for what you are than to be loved for what you are not.” ― Andre Gide, Autumn Leaves
- “Anyone who lives within their means suffers from a lack of imagination.” ― Oscar Wilde
- “It isn’t what you have or who you are or where you are or what you are doing that makes you happy or unhappy. It is what you think about it.” ― Dale Carnegie, How to Win Friends and Influence People
- “We are what we pretend to be, so we must be careful about what we pretend to be.” ― Kurt Vonnegut, Mother Night
- “You cannot find peace by avoiding life.” ― Michael Cunningham, The Hours
- “There are only two ways to live your life. One is as though nothing is a miracle. The other is as though everything is a miracle.” ― Albert Einstein
- “Life is a book and there are a thousand pages I have not yet read.” ― Cassandra Clare, Clockwork Princess
- “I’m not afraid of death; I just don’t want to be there when it happens.” ― Woody Allen
- “May you live every day of your life.” ― Jonathan Swift
- “Don’t be pushed around by the fears in your mind. Be led by the dreams in your heart.” ― Roy T. Bennett, The Light in the Heart
- “A life spent making mistakes is not only more honorable, but more useful than a life spent doing nothing.” ― George Bernard Shaw
- “Life is like riding a bicycle. To keep your balance, you must keep moving.” ― Albert Einstein
- “All God does is watch us and kill us when we get boring. We must never, ever be boring.” ― Chuck Palahniuk, Invisible Monsters
- “If my life is going to mean anything, I have to live it myself.” ― Rick Riordan, The Lightning Thief
- “Good friends, good books, and a sleepy conscience: this is the ideal life.” ― Mark Twain
- “Life can only be understood backwards; but it must be lived forwards.” ― Søren Kierkegaard
- “Life isn’t about finding yourself. Life is about creating yourself.” ― George Bernard Shaw
- “Get busy living or get busy dying.” ― Stephen King, Different Seasons
- “Things change. And friends leave. Life doesn’t stop for anybody.” ― Stephen Chbosky, The Perks of Being a Wallflower
- “Life is what happens to us while we are making other plans.” ― Allen Saunders
- “Instead of worrying about what you cannot control, shift your energy to what you can create.” ― Roy T. Bennett, The Light in the Heart
- “Sometimes I can hear my bones straining under the weight of all the lives I’m not living.” ― Jonathan Safran Foer, Extremely Loud & Incredibly Close
- “Today you are You, that is truer than true. There is no one alive who is Youer than You.” ― Dr. Seuss, Happy Birthday to You!
- “The most important thing is to enjoy your life—to be happy—it’s all that matters.” ― Audrey Hepburn
- “I’m selfish, impatient and a little insecure. I make mistakes, I am out of control and at times hard to handle. But if you can’t handle me at my worst, then you sure as hell don’t deserve me at my best.” ― Marilyn Monroe