Quotes about Life

Quotes about Life

The basic fact about human existence is not that it is a tragedy, but that it is a bore. It is not so much a war as an endless standing in line. ~H.L. Mencken


Almost everything in life is easier to get into than out of. ~Agnes' Law


Chance is always powerful, let your hook always be cast; in the pool where you least expect it, there will be a fish. ~Ovid


Wars and elections are both too big and too small to matter in the long run. The daily work — that goes on, it adds up. ~Barbara Kingsolver, Animal Dreams


Life is a series of collisions with the future. ~José Ortega y Gasset


To the student I would say, "Life is principally multiple choice, but at the end there's a tough essay question." ~Robert Brault, rbrault.blogspot.com


The art of living is more like wrestling than dancing. ~Marcus Aurelius,Meditations


Life is half spent before we know what it is. ~George Herbert, Jacula Prudentum, 1651


When life throws you lemons, make orange juice. It will leave them wondering how the hell you did that. ~Author Unknown


Why does a person even get up in the morning? You have breakfast, you floss your teeth so you'll have healthy gums in your old age, and then you get in your car and drive down I-10 and die. Life is so stupid I can't stand it. ~Barbara Kingsolver, Animal Dreams


Human beings, vegetables, or cosmic dust — we all dance to a mysterious tune, intoned in the distance by an invisible piper. ~Albert Einstein, in The Saturday Evening Post, 26 October 1929


After a lifetime of deep thought, I've decided that life is a distraction, but probably not from anything important. ~Robert Brault, rbrault.blogspot.com


Life is the greatest of blessings and death the worst of evils.... all great, powerful souls love life. ~Heinrich Heine (d.1856), "Ideas: Book Le Grand," 1826, translated from German by Charles Godfrey Leland, Pictures of Travel, 1855


Jack Palance: "Do you know what the secret of life is? One thing. Just one thing. You stick to that and everything else don't mean shit."
Billy Crystal: "Yeah, but what's that one thing?"
Jack Palance: "That's what you've got to figure out."
~From the movie City Slickers


Expecting the world to treat you fairly because you are good is like expecting the bull not to charge because you are a vegetarian. ~Dennis Wholey


Life is an endless struggle full of frustrations and challenges, but eventually you find a hair stylist you like. ~Author Unknown


Why do critics make such an outcry against tragicomedies? is not life one? ~Augustus William Hare and Julius Charles Hare, Guesses at Truth, by Two Brothers, 1827


What is life? It is the flash of a firefly in the night. It is the breath of a buffalo in the wintertime. It is the little shadow which runs across the grass and loses itself in the sunset. ~Crowfoot, 1890, as quoted in Catch the Whisper of the Windcompiled by Cheewa James


Life never tires of testing the proposition that life must go on. ~Robert Brault,rbrault.blogspot.com


Have you noticed that life, real honest-to-goodness life, with murders and catastrophes and fabulous inheritances, happens almost exclusively in the newspapers? ~Jean Anouilh, The Rehearsal, 1950


..."Sloppy, raggedy-assed
old life. I love it. I never
want to die."
~Dennis Trudell, "View," in The Fiddlehead, January 1969


Life is great. Don't let circumstances and society fool you into believing it's not. ~Terri Guillemets


God writes a lot of comedy... the trouble is, he's stuck with so many bad actors who don't know how to play funny. ~Garrison Keillor


Look, I don't want to wax philosophic, but I will say that if you're alive you've got to flap your arms and legs, you've got to jump around a lot, for life is the very opposite of death, and therefore you must at very least think noisy and colorfully, or you're not alive. ~Mel Brooks


Unbeing dead isn't being alive. ~e.e. cummings


The meaning of life is not an unquestionable answer; it is an unanswerable question. ~Terri Guillemets


Not a shred of evidence exists in favor of the idea that life is serious. ~Brendan Gill


Life is a series of family photos in which eventually you stop showing up. ~Robert Brault, rbrault.blogspot.com


Life is a series of family photos in which you keep moving to the rear until finally you're a portrait in the background. ~Robert Brault, rbrault.blogspot.com


The blanket of life is kind and warm for those who can find its snuggle. ~Terri Guillemets  [A few years after writing this, I came across Marion Howard's "Life is like a blanket too short. You pull it up and your toes rebel, you yank it down and shivers meander about your shoulder; but cheerful folks manage to draw their knees up and pass a very comfortable night." —tεᖇᖇ¡·g]


When we are alone on a starlit night, when by chance we see the migrating birds in autumn descending on a grove of junipers to rest and eat; when we see children in a moment when they are really children, when we know love in our own hearts; or when, like the Japanese poet, Basho, we hear an old frog land in a quiet pond with a solitary splash — at such times the awakening, the turning inside out of all values, the "newness," the emptiness and the purity of vision that make themselves evident, all these provide a glimpse of the cosmic dance. ~Thomas Merton


Ever get the feeling that sometime early in life there was a briefing you missed? ~Robert Brault