Life is hard. After all, it kills you.
-Katharine Hepburn
"Me: Stories of My Life"
Quotations
Life
A purpose of human life, no matter who is controlling it, is to love whoever is around to be loved.
-Kurt Vonnegut
"The Sirens of Titan"
The art of living well and the art of dying well are one.
-Epicurus
Books say: She did this because. Life says: She did this. Books are where things are explained to you; life is where things aren't. I'm not surprised some people prefer books.
-Julian Barnes
"Flaubert's Parrot"
The evil ruler spoils the word, the plan of life, by his teachings. He, indeed, deprives me of the exalted goal of good thought. With the word of my spirit, I pray to You, O Wise One, and to truth!
-Scriptures "Avesta, Yasna 32.9"
Life is 10 percent what you make it, and 90 percent how you take it.
-Irving Berlin
Our life always expresses the result of our dominant thoughts.
-Søren Kierkegaard
Who says life is fair, where is that written?
-William Goldman
"The Princess Bride"
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
The shoe that fits one person pinches another; there is no recipe for living that suits all cases.
-Carl Gustav Jung
