Life is pain, highness. Anyone who tells you differently is selling something.
-William Goldman
"The Princess Bride"
Quotations
Life
Life is partly what we make it, and partly what it is made by the friends we choose.
-Tennessee Williams
Don’t hate life and death or love life and death. Keep your every thought free of delusion, and in life you’ll witness the beginning of nirvana, and in death you’ll experience the assurance of no rebirth.
-Bodhidharma "Bodhidharma"
Human life is full off the play of samskaras, tendencies developed by repeated actions.
-Vinoba Bhave "Vinoba Bhave"
Life isn't about waiting for the storm to pass...It's about learning to dance in the rain.
-Vivian Greene
My philosophy of life is that if we make up our mind what we are going to make of our lives, then work hard toward that goal, we never lose - somehow we win out.
-Ronald Reagan
Life is nothing but a competition to be the criminal rather than the victim.
-Bertrand Russell
There are ships sailing to many ports, but not a single one goes where life is not painful.
-Fernando Pessoa
"The Book of Disquiet"
Nobody wants to be here and nobody wants to leave.
-Cormac McCarthy
"The Road"
You have crossed the great ocean; why do you halt so near the shore? Make haste to get on the other side, Gautama; be careful all the while!
-Scriptures "Uttaradhyayana Sutra 10.34"
