Life Quotes
Life is a tragedy when seen in close-up, but a comedy in long-shot.
What do you want meaning for? Life is desire, not meaning.
I suppose that's one of the ironies of life doing the wrong thing at the right moment.
This is a ruthless world and one must be ruthless to cope with it.
Whiskey! Never tasted such beastly stuff in my life! In a civilized country they drink wine
Life can be wonderful if you're not afraid of it. All it needs is courage, imagination ... and a little dough.
Life is a beautiful, magnificent thing, even to a jellyfish.
Whomever lives, gambles with life.
Life and death are too resolute, too implacable to be accidental.
Life could be wonderful if people would leave you alone.
America has changed [...] The gigantic scale of industrial institutions, of press, television, and commercial advertising has completely divorced me from the American way of life. I want the other side of the coin, a simpler personal sense of living.
An arrogant person considers himself perfect. This is the chief harm of arrogance. It interferes with a person's main task in life-becoming a better person.
There are two tragedies in life. One is to lose your heart's desire. The other is to gain it.
What is life but a series of inspired follies? The difficulty is to find them to do. Never lose a chance: it doesn't come every day.
The most important knowledge is that which guides the way you lead your life.
People try to do all sorts of clever and difficult things to improve life instead of doing the simplest, easiest thing-refusing to participate in activities that make life bad.
Humanity unceasingly strives forward from a lower, more partial and obscure understanding of life to one more general and more lucid.
Love is life. All, everything that I understand, I understand only because I love. Everything is, everything exists, only because I love. Everything is united by it alone. Love is God, and to die means that I, a particle of love, shall return to the general and eternal source.
The more intelligent a person is, the more he discovers kindness in others. For nothing enriches the world more than kindness. It makes mysterious things clear, difficult things easy, and dull things cheerful.
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