Life Quotes
Famous Quotes & Quotations About Life:
To succeed in life, you need three things: a wishbone, a backbone and a funnybone.
~ Reba McEntire.
Too much of a good thing can be wonderful.
~ Mae West.
Unbeing dead isn't being alive.
~ E.E. cummings.
We are born wet, naked, and hungry. Then things get worse.
~ Author Unknown.
We are like people with short-term leases on summer cottages; we can never seem to make our provisions come out even with our stay.
~ Mignon McLaughlin.
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.
When we remember we are all mad, the mysteries disappear and life stands explained.
~ Mark Twain.
Who will tell whether one happy moment of love or the joy of breathing or walking on a bright morning and smelling the fresh air, is not worth all the suffering and effort which life implies.
~ Erich Fromm.
Why do critics make such an outcry against tragicomedies? is not life one?
~ Augustus William Hare and Julius Charles Hare.
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.
Why torture yourself when life'll do it for you?
~ Author Unknown.
Yes, I will try to be. Because I believe that not being is arrogant.
~ Antonio Porchia.
You can't escape history, or the needs and neuroses you've picked up like layers and layers of tartar on your teeth.
~ Charles Johnson.
You fall out of your mother's womb, you crawl across open country under fire, and drop into your grave.
~ Quentin Crisp.
We mourn the transitory things and fret under the yoke of the immutable ones.
~ Paul Eldridge.
We never understand how little we need in this world until we know the loss of it.
~ J.M. Barrie.
We should give meaning to life, not wait for life to give us meaning.
~ Stacy.
You live and learn. At any rate, you live.
~ Douglas Adams.
You will never be happy if you continue to search for what happiness consists of. You will never live if you are looking for the meaning of life.
~ Albert Camus.
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