Quotes About Life

So far, at least, I haven't found a way to tell my kind of stories without making them both sad and funny.

Now the thing about having a baby - and I can't be the first person to have noticed this - is that thereafter you have it.

Parenthood is the passing of a baton, followed by a lifelong disagreement as to who dropped it.

He [Steve McQueen] must have made that before he died.

Being dead wasn't supposed to hurt. Where was the fairness in that? If I was dead, the least the universe could do was make it painless

You've got to take the sour with the bitter.

That's just how I see things. I think things that are the most dramatic or tragic can also look the most ridiculous and funny. That's part of being human.

We drink and we die and continue to drink.

Wherever we've travelled in this great land of ours, we've found that people everywhere are about 90% water.

I am just an old country boy in a big town trying to get along. I have been eating pretty regular and the reason I have been is because I have stayed an old country boy.

Funny the way it is, not right or wrong, somebody's heart is broken, and it becomes your favorite song.

No one knows what's next, but everybody does it.

You couldn't be romantic if your life depended on it." "You know what's lucky? Most bad guys don't ask you to be romantic on command, so that probably won't matter.

We may not be all that bright, Jace said, but at least we are alive.

Sometimes in the most tragic situation, something just profoundly funny happens.

I grew up in a funny way.

It's in our own lives, every single day, whether we recognize it as funny at the moment or not.

These jokes the world plays, they're not funny at all.

I don't mind dying, the trouble is you feel so bloody stiff the next day.

The Side Effects of Dying in Your Pants isn't really funny… Alright, it's a little funny.

I could never be cynical, not that I think there's anything wrong with cynicism. I think it can be quite funny at times. But I just feel so grateful to be alive.

Remember, you can lead a fifty-seven-year-old body to motherhood, but you can't make it stay awake.

Death is an awful thing. I don't believe in it myself.

The more lives you have, the harder it is to change, yet the stronger you are. It's a kind of funny dichotomy.