Life is pain, highness. Anyone who tells you differently is selling something.
-William Goldman
"The Princess Bride"
Quotations
Life
How vain it is to sit down to write when you have not stood up to live.
-Henry David Thoreau
Life’s a tough proposition, and the first hundred years are the hardest.
-Wilson Mizner
Life is given to us; we earn it by giving it.
-Rabindranath Tagore
Life has its own hidden forces which you can only discover by living.
-Søren Kierkegaard
It can only take a moment to waste the rest of your life.
-Charles Michael "Chuck" Palahniuk
"Snuff"
The closer we come to death, the more important becomes this single indispensable thing called life.
-Leo Tolstoy
There is neither creation nor destruction, neither destiny nor free will, neither path nor achievement; this is the final truth.
-Ramana Maharshi
Life has been compared with a battle and rightly so, as each day comes up with a new set of challenges which we must meet. One cannot just shy away from problems if he has to survive. He has to meet to challenges with courage.
-Vedas "Sam Veda"
Life isn’t divided into genres. It’s a horrifying, romantic, tragic, comical, science-fiction cowboy detective novel. You know, with a bit of pornography if you're lucky.
-Alan Moore
