Life Quotes
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The search for happiness has long been a dominant feature of American life. It's a byproduct of prosperity, not to mention the most famous line in the Declaration of Independence.
Meghan Daum
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Getting life insurance is like making a bet you can't win. If you live, you don't get the money. If you die, you don't get to enjoy the money.
Oliver Gaspirtz
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The stage is not merely the meeting place of all the arts, but is also the return of art to life.
Oscar Wilde
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People in real life cuss God out when they're angry. That's all real.
Amber Tamblyn
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When grown-up persons indulge in practical jokes, the fact gauges them. They have lived narrow, obscure, and ignorant lives, and at full manhood they still retain and cherish a job lot of left-over standards and ideals that would have been discarded with their boyhood if they had then moved out into the world and a broader life.
Mark Twain
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When you think of the people who were important in your life, prettiness was not a factor. They might have been old, fat and toothless - but they were there.
Ben Harney
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I can't go into Oklahoma without thinking about Larry Clark's photography book 'Tulsa.' It's a great book about how life works.
Buzz Osborne
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I became a loner. I became a mountain man. A lot of those things are very good qualities and they help you do your work, help you be singular and keep the artistic integrity of your work intact, but they don't make it very easy to live your life.
John Milius
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For life: It is rather a determination not to be overwhelmed. For work: The truth can only be recalled, never invented.
Marilyn Monroe
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What you select from, in order to tell your story, is nothing less than everything. What you build up your world from, your local, intelligible rational, coherent world, is nothing less than everything. . . . . All human knowledge is local. Every life, each human life is local, is arbitrary, the infinitesimal momentary glitter of a reflection.
Ursula K. Le Guin
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The fact that life has no meaning is a reason to live - moreover, the only one.
Emil Cioran
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A lot of people resent that I've been in someone's life for 50 years. Why shouldn't people have an affection for me and what I've done? Didn't I have to be genuine for them to buy into what I did? There are children who grow up today who will not have that when they're 55 years old. With whom will they have it? Name an example for me.
Jerry Lewis
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When it is possible, I choose to have a quiet life.
Diego Della Valle
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If I had to choose a motto for myself, I would take this one — pure, dure, sûre, Pure, hard, certain — in other words: unalterable. I would express by this the ideal of the Strong, that which nothing brings down, nothing corrupts, nothing changes; those on whom one can count, because their life is order and fidelity, in accord with the eternal.
Savitri Devi
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'Is it a wicked thing, then?''I should call it a misunderstanding, rather. A misunderstanding of life. Death and life are the same thing-like the two sides of my hand, the palm and the back. And still the palm and the back are not the same...They can be neither separated, nor mixed.'
Ursula K. Le Guin
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I can't imagine a more ideal life.
Al Jarreau
