You're alive. Do something. The directive in life, the moral imperative was so uncomplicated. It could be expressed in single words, not complete sentences. It sounded like this: Look. Listen. Choose. Act.
Barbara Hall, A Summons to New Orleans, 2000
The first step to getting the things you want out of life is this: Decide what you want.
Ben Stein
Not a shred of evidence exists in favor of the idea that life is serious.
Brendan Gill
Life is a foreign language; all men mispronounce it.
Christopher Morley (1890 - 1957)
The purpose of life is to fight maturity.
Dick Werthimer
Oh, life is a glorious cycle of song,
A medley of extemporanea;
And love is a thing that can never go wrong;
And I am Marie of Romania.
Dorothy Parker (1893 - 1967), Not So Deep as a Well (1937), "Comment"
It's not true that life is one damn thing after another; it is one damn thing over and over.
Edna St. Vincent Millay (1892 - 1950)
Life is just one damned thing after another.
Elbert Hubbard (1856 - 1915)
Life is something that happens when you can't get to sleep.
Fran Lebowitz (1950 - )
Life is something that everyone should try at least once.
Henry J. Tillman
Life is pleasant. Death is peaceful. It's the transition that's troublesome.
Isaac Asimov (1920 - 1992)
Life is a long lesson in humility.
James M. Barrie (1860 - 1937)
Life is what happens to you while you're busy making other plans.
John Lennon (1940 - 1980), "Beautiful Boy"
The secret of a good life is to have the right loyalties and hold them in the right scale of values.
Norman Thomas (1884 - 1968)
Life is a fatal complaint, and an eminently contagious one.
Oliver Wendell Holmes (1809 - 1894), "The Poet at the Breakfast-Table", 1872
Life is far too important a thing ever to talk seriously about.
Oscar Wilde (1854 - 1900), Lady Windermere's Fan, 1892, Act I
Life is a zoo in a jungle.
Peter De Vries
Life is a sexually transmitted disease.
R. D. Laing
The supreme irony of life is that hardly anyone gets out of it alive.
Robert Heinlein (1907 - 1988), "Job", 1984
Life is just a bowl of pits.
Rodney Dangerfield (1921 - 2004)
Life is like playing a violin in public and learning the instrument as one goes on.
Samuel Butler (1835 - 1902)
We make a living by what we get, we make a life by what we give.
Sir Winston Churchill (1874 - 1965)
The unexamined life is not worth living.
Socrates (469 BC - 399 BC), in Plato, Dialogues, Apology
Life is an unbroken succession of false situations.
Thornton Wilder (1897 - 1975)
Life is a moderately good play with a badly written third act.
Truman Capote (1924 - 1984)
Life is just a mirror, and what you see out there, you must first see inside of you.
Wally 'Famous' Amos (1936 - )
Life isn't fair. It's just fairer than death, that's all.
William Goldman, "The Princess Bride"
