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1. "After all, life is really simple; we ourselves create the circumstances that complicate it."

Anon.

Quotations about: Question and Problem

2. "Remember that there is nothing stable in human affairs; therefore avoid undue elation in prosperity, or undue depression in adversity."

Socrates

Quotations about: Joy and Sadness

3. "Life's tragedy is that we get old too soon and wise too late."

Benjamin Franklin

Quotations about: Wisdom and Stupidity -:- Youth and Age

4. "Life is hardly more than a fraction of a second. Such a little time to prepare oneself for eternity!"

Paul Gauguin

Quotations about: Time and Passing

5. "And in the end it's not the years in your life that count. It's the life in your years."

Abraham Lincoln

Quotations about: Success and Fame

6. "Live, let live, and help live."

Ralph Waldo Emerson

7. "Everybody's a mad scientist, and life is their lab. We're all trying to experiment to find a way to live, to solve problems, to fend off madness and chaos."

David Cronenberg, "Cronenberg on Cronenberg"

Quotations about: Science and Technology -:- Question and Problem

8. "The man who says he has exhausted life generally means that life has exhausted him."

Oscar Wilde

9. "In the morning of life, work; in the mid day give council; in the evening, pray."

German proverb

10. "Music is enough for a lifetime, but a lifetime is not enough for music."

Sergei Rachmaninoff

Quotations about: Art and Culture

11. "The best jokes are those that life plays on us."

Agnieszka Lisak

Quotations about: Wit and Humor

12. "Striving for better life we waste the one we already have."

Agnieszka Lisak

Quotations about: Happiness

13. "Stop following someone else's path, find your own."

Agnieszka Lisak

Quotations about: Human -:- Various

14. "Keep changing your life into joke, the world is not worth treating seriously."

Agnieszka Lisak

Quotations about: Wit and Humor

15. "Life is a tragedy when seen in close-up, but a comedy in long-shot."

Charlie Chaplin

16. "Life must be something more than dilettante speculation."

Anna Julia Cooper, "A Voice from the South"

17. "Be of good cheer about death and know this as a truth - that no evil can happen to a good man, either in life or after death. "

Socrates

Quotations about: Good and Evil

18. "Man weeps to think that he will die so soon; woman, that she was born so long ago."

Henry Louis Mencken, "A Mencken Chrestomathy"

Quotations about: Time and Passing -:- Woman and Man

19. "And lastly there is the oldest and deepest desire, the Great Escape: the Escape from Death."

J.R.R. Tolkien

Quotations about: Dreams and Desires

20. "It requires more courage to suffer than to die."

Napoleon Bonaparte

Quotations about: Bravery and Fear -:- Pain and Tears

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21. "In three words I can sum up everything I've learned about life. It goes on."

Robert Lee Frost

22. "Is there any such thing as wisdom not applied to life?"

Henry David Thoreau, "The Writings of Henry David Thoreau"

Quotations about: Wisdom and Stupidity

23. "Every perfect life is a parable invented by God."

Simone Weil

Quotations about: God and Religion

24. "Life is a flower of which love is the honey."

Victor Hugo

Quotations about: Love

25. "The great use of life is to spend it for something that will outlast it."

William James

26. "Living is a sickness to which sleep provides relief every sixteen hours. It's a palliative. The remedy is death."

Sébastien-Roch Nicolas de Chamfort, "Maxims and Considerations"

27. "Death is terrifying, but it would be even more terrifying to find out that you are going to live forever and never die."

Anton Pavlovich Chekhov

Quotations about: Time and Passing

28. "That's life. Whichever way you turn, fate sticks out a foot to trip you."

Martin Goldsmith

Quotations about: Destiny and Fate

29. "Life? It is a tale told by an idiot, full of sound and fury; signifying nothing."

William Shakespeare

Quotations about: Normality and Madness

30. "What can be expressed in words can be expressed in life."

Henry David Thoreau, "The Writings of Henry David Thoreau"

Quotations about: Oration and Silence

31. "Life is a dead-end street."

Henry Louis Mencken

32. "Most men lead lives of quiet desperation and go to the grave with the song still in them."

Henry David Thoreau

Quotations about: Dreams and Desires -:- Pain and Tears

33. "We learn about life not from plusses alone, but from minuses as well."

Anton Pavlovich Chekhov

Quotations about: Education

34. "Life is a zoo in a jungle."

Peter De Vries

Quotations about: Nature and Animals

35. "Death is a very dull, dreary affair, and my advice to you is to have nothing whatever to do with it."

William Somerset Maugham

36. "Life, an age to the miserable, and a moment to the happy."

Francis Bacon

Quotations about: Happiness -:- Time and Passing

37. "This life is a hospital in which each patient is obsessed with the desire to change beds."

Charles Baudelaire

38. "When one realizes that his life is worthless he either commits suicide or travels."

Edward Dahlberg

Quotations about: Various

39. "The purpose of life is to be defeated by greater and greater things."

Rainer Maria Rilke

Quotations about: Defeates and Mistakes

40. "We are always getting ready to live, but never living."

Ralph Waldo Emerson

41. "Happiness is not a destination. It is a method of life."

Burton Hills

Quotations about: Happiness

42. "Life is lived in common, but not in community."

Michael Harrington

Quotations about: Family and Loneliness -:- Human

43. "Whom the gods love dies young."

Menander

Quotations about: Youth and Age

44. "One should absorb the colour of life, but one should never remember its details. Details are always vulgar."

Oscar Wilde

Quotations about: Various

45. "The hardest part about being a kid is knowing you have got your whole life ahead of you."

Jane Wagner, "Edith Ann"

Quotations about: Youth and Age

46. "Our lives are like soap operas. We can go for months and not tune in to them, then six months later we look in and the same stuff is going on."

Jane Wagner, "The Search for Signs of Intelligent Life [...]"

47. "I bet the worst part about dying is the part where your whole life passes before you."

Jane Wagner, "The Search for Signs of Intelligent Life [...]"

48. "The first forty years of life give us the text; the next thirty supply the commentary on it."

Arthur Schopenhauer

Quotations about: Youth and Age

49. "It is better to sit down than to stand, it is better to lie down than to sit, but death is the best of all."

Indian proverb

50. "Life is a foreign language: all men mispronounce it."

Christopher Morley, "Thunder on the Left"

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