Quotes About Life

You devour a book meant to be read, not because you would fill yourself or have an anxious care to be nourished, but because it contains such stuff as it makes the mind hungry to look upon. Neither do you read it to kill time, but to lengthen time, rather, adding to its natural usury by living the more abundantly while it lasts, joining another's life and thought to your own.

A relationship, I think, is like a shark. You know? It has to constantly move forward or it dies. And I think what we got on our hands is a dead shark.

All people know the same truth. Our lives consist of how we chose to distort it.

To love is to suffer. To avoid suffering, one must not love. But, then one suffers from not loving. Therefore, to love is to suffer, not to love is to suffer, to suffer is to suffer. To be happy is to love, to be happy, then, is to suffer, but suffering makes one unhappy, therefore, to be unhappy one must love, or love to suffer, or suffer from too much happiness -- I hope you're getting this down.

The key here, I think, is to not think of death as an end. But ... but ... think of it more as a very effective way of cutting down on your expenses.

There is always the possibility that people will change. Real change is more rare. You are who you are at a certain age in life you are pretty much a variation of that your whole life. It's conceivable that you will change but it's not likely.

My relationship with death remains the same -- I'm strongly against it.

What a world. It could be so wonderful if it wasn't for certain people.

I don't know the question, but sex is definitely the answer.

I feel that life is divided into the horrible and the miserable. That's the two categories. The horrible are like, I don't know, terminal cases, you know, and blind people, crippled. I don't know how they get through life. It's amazing to me. And the miserable is everyone else. So you should be thankful that you're miserable, because that's very lucky, to be miserable.

I recently turned 60 years old. Practically a third of my life is over.

Sex and death. Two things that come once in a lifetime. But at least after death you're not nauseous.

Well, freedom is wonderful. On the other hand, if you're dead, it's a tremendous drawback to your sex life.

That's essentially how I feel about life. Full of loneliness and misery and suffering and unhappiness, and it's all over much too quickly.

You can't control life. It doesn't wind up perfectly. Only . . . only art you can control. Art and masturbation. Two areas in which I am an absolute expert.

Yes, but–as empty experiences go–it's one of the best!

Two hundred and four if you count my marriage.

I don't believe in the after life, although I'm bringing a change of underwear.

There's an old joke - um... two elderly women are at a Catskill mountain resort, and one of 'em says, "Boy, the food at this place is really terrible." The other one says, "Yeah, I know; and such small portions." Well, that's essentially how I feel about life - full of loneliness, and misery, and suffering, and unhappiness, and it's all over much too quickly.

I am not afraid of death, I just don't want to be there when it happens.

I'm not afraid of death; I just don't want to be there when it happens.

As the poet said, 'Only God can make a tree' -- probably because it's so hard to figure out how to get the bark on.

Does art imitate life, or does life imitate TV?

Life is full of misery, loneliness, and suffering - and it's all over much too soon.