LIFE QUOTES V
quotations about life
Life is not meant to be hard: if it is, we make it so.
IVAN PANIN
Thoughts
A somewhat depressing lesson that we learn from life is that there is no guaranteed sure-fire formula for happiness.
MICHAEL W. EYSENCK
Happiness: Facts and Myths
The zest for life of those unusual men and women who make a great zealous success of living is due more often in good part to the craftiness and pertinacity with which they manage to overlook the misery of others. You can watch them watch life beat the stuffing out of the faces of their friends and acquaintances, although they themselves seem to outwit the dense delays of social custom, the tedious tick-tock of bureaucratic obfuscation, accepting loss and age and change and disappointment without suffering punctures in their stomach lining.
EDWARD HOAGLAND
Tigers & Ice
Life is a means of extracting fiction.
ROBERT STONE
attributed, Writers at Work
There is no cure for birth and death save to enjoy the interval.
GEORGE SANTAYANA
"War Shrines", Soliloquies in England and Later Soliloquies
Football is a team game. So is life.
JOE NAMATH
attributed, Where Football Is King
Life is a spark between two identical voids, the darkness before birth and the one after death.
IRVIN D. YALOM
When Nietzsche Wept
The lives of people are like young trees in a forest. They are being choked by climbing vines. The vines are old thoughts and beliefs planted by dead men.
SHERWOOD ANDERSON
"Seeds", The Triumph of the Egg
Life is a moment stolen from eternity.
ELIZA COOK
Diamond Dust
Life is the hyphen between matter and spirit.
ELIZA COOK
Diamond Dust
This is one of those days which I am obliged to record as almost a blank in my existence.
CHARLES FRANCIS ADAMS
diary, November 23, 1837
Life is a riddle we die in guessing.
CLARA MARCELLE FARRAR GREENE
"Before the Wedding"
Life is what you celebrate. All of it. Even its end.
JOANNE HARRIS
Chocolat
Life itself is the most wonderful fairy tale.
HANS CHRISTIAN ANDERSEN
A Visit to Funen with Hans Christian Andersen
Success makes life easier. It doesn't make living easier.
BRUCE SPRINGSTEEN
Q, August, 1992
So it is with all life. A tedium that includes the expectation of nothing but more tedium; a regret, right now, for the regret I'll have tomorrow for having felt regret today.
FERNANDO PESSOA
The Book of Disquiet
There is no reason to assume that the universe has the slightest interest in intelligence -- or even in life. Both may be random accidental by-products of its operations like the beautiful patterns on a butterfly's wings. The insect would fly just as well without them.
ARTHUR C. CLARKE
The Lost Worlds of 2001
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.
G. K. CHESTERTON
Orthodoxy
If it is true ... that no one has a life worth thinking about whose life story cannot be told, does it not then follow that life could be, even ought to be, lived as a story, that what one has to do in life is to make the story come true?
HANNAH ARENDT
Men in Dark Times
Come on, Marge, I want to shake off the dust of this one-horse town. I want to explore the world. I want to watch TV in a different time zone. I want to visit strange, exotic malls. I'm sick of eating hoagies. I want a grinder, a sub, a foot-long hero. I want to live, Marge! Won't you let me live? Won't you, please?!
HOMER SIMPSON
"Fear of Flying", The Simpsons