What a wee little part of a person's life are his acts and his words! His real life is led in his head, and is known to none but himself.
-Mark Twain
Quotations
Life
Don't be afraid of death; be afraid of an unlived life.
-Natalie Babbitt
"Tuck Everlasting"
You cannot find peace by avoiding life.
-Virginia Woolf
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 pain, highness. Anyone who tells you differently is selling something.
-William Goldman
"The Princess Bride"
A successful life is the one which has no desires left in the mind at the time of
death.
-Deep Trivedi
There are ships sailing to many ports, but not a single one goes where life is not painful.
-Fernando Pessoa
"The Book of Disquiet"
Is life not a thousand times too short for us to bore ourselves?
-Friedrich Nietzsche
Life is like a beautiful melody, only the lyrics are messed up.
-Hans Christian Anderson
Life is one grand, sweet song, so start the music.
-Ronald Reagan
