You can get all A's and still flunk life.
-Walker Percy
"The Second Coming"
Quotations
Life
You can live your whole life not realizing that what you're looking for is right in front of you.
-David Nicholas
There are a lot of things I wish I would have done, instead of just sitting around and complaining about having a boring life.
-Kurt Cobain
Life has no meaning, the moment you lose the illusion of being eternal.
-Jean Paul Sartre "Jean-Paul Sartre"
No one who does good deeds will ever come to a bad end, either here or in the world to come. When such people die, they go to other realms where the righteous live.
-Srimad Bhagavad Gita "Bhagwad Gita 6.40-41"
It is a good practice to set apart at least one day in a year for the remembrance of one’s near and dear relatives, friends and learned people that are no more in keeping with our traditions; giving a new orientation to and infusing new life into practices that have become lifeless and meaningless to many.
-Scriptures "The Concise Encyclopaedia of Hinduism"
The language of excitement is at best picturesque merely. You must be calm before you can utter oracles.
-Henry David Thoreau
Life should not be a journey to the grave with the intention of arriving safely in a pretty and well preserved body, but rather to skid in broadside in a cloud of smoke, thoroughly used up, totally worn out, and loudly proclaiming, Wow! What a Ride!
-Hunter S. Thompson
In life, as in chess, forethought wins.
-Charles Buxton
Life's under no obligation to give us what we expect.
-Margaret Mitchell
