Quotes About Life

This is agony cried Mr Salteena clutching hold of a table my life will be sour grapes and ashes without you.

This was like the Rubik's Cube of life. One big glob of scattered, multicolored possibilities she had to sort out and line up in the appropriate manner by twisting endless scenario after scenario in her head. And it sucked. Big, fat wankers.

It worries me. I don't want you in debt, workin' yourself into an early grave because of me. You're young. You should be out enjoyin' your life,

The world was her oyster. Unlike Dixie, whose world was more like stinky, week-old dead fish.

No not really, it is just like real life. Not everyday you are happy and not everyday you are sad.

Who says fun is the ultimate experience?

All afflictions and deficiencies of life originate from the mind's attachment and clinging.

Today, more than ever before, life must be characterized by a sense of Universal responsibility, not only nation to nation and human to human, but also human to other forms of life.

I believe that the very purpose of our life is to seek happiness. That is clear. Whether one believes in religion or not, whether one believes in this religion or that religion, we all are seeking something better in life. So, I think, the very motion of our life is towards happinessÖ

If you have a particular faith or religion, that is good. But you can survive without it.

World economies are always so tenuous and we are subject to so many losses in life, but a compassionate attitude is something we can always carry with us.

The purpose of our lives is to be happy.

Even when a person has all of life's comforts - good food, good shelter, a companion - he or she can still become unhappy when encountering a tragic situation.

whenever he hears a man say that life is not worth living, he takes out the gun and offers to shoot him. "Always with the most satisfactory results", he laughs.

Paradox is not just a logician's art. It is every man's tool to understand the real world we inhabit for a short time, and how it shapes our everlasting life. Paradox is a tool so common that a carpenter once used it to explain the depth of our existence.

There is now a false idealism of turning Government into God, by a vague notion that it gives everything to everybody; to the denial of the liberty given by God, which is called life. . . .

The mere strain of modern life is unbearable; and in it even the things that men do desire may break down; marriage and fair ownership and worship and the mysterious worth of man.

Tell me what gives a man or woman their greatest pleasure and I'll tell you their philosophy of life.

Dealing with people is probably the biggest problem you face, especially if you are in business. Yes, and that is also true if you are a housewife, architect or engineer.

Every day we live is a priceless gift of God, loaded with possibilities to learn something new, to gain fresh insights.

death does not. Once death exists, I will not. Why should I fear something I will never experience?

Life's cheap out here, Daniel. With a little budgeting I can get by till you go off to college." "And then?" My dad reached for whatever he was drinking that day. "There don't always have to be a then." He poured, drank, swallowed, grimaced. Left his hand on the bottleneck. "Hell, there ain't really a now, so why should there be a then?

she thought that sometimes you walk right into language as though it's a chair out of place in a dark room: a word, an expression you live with all your life can become suddenly, completely unfamiliar. That night Beatrice stumbled over death, but it was dark, and she was tired, and she believed that she had stumbled across love.

Too much sanity may be madness — and maddest of all: to see life as it is, and not as it should be!