Life Quotes

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.

Love is life on a higher plain of existence, working through man to unite the forces of nature into a perfect whole. It is the merging force binding every element in existence into a perfect whole.

People miss happiness by chasing after false values and repressing the feelings that make life valuable and beautiful. When you get up in the morning feeling fine your experience during just those few minutes or hours when you are reacting happily to life is an end in itself.

The accumulating complexities of modern life, the kinetic invasion of the twentieth century finds the individual hemmed in by gigantic institutions that threaten from all sides, politically, scientifically and economically. We are becoming the victims of soul-conditioning, of sanctions and permits.

That is why, no matter how desperate the predicament is, I am always very much in earnest about clutching my cane, straightening my derby hat and fixing my tie, even though I have just landed on my head.

Think about yourself at least once in your life. Otherwise you may miss the best comedy in this world.

Tomorrow the birds will sing. Be brave. Face life.

I was a worshipper of the foolhardy and the melodramatic, a dreamer and a moper, raging at life and loving it, a mind in a chrysalis yet erupting with sudden bursts of maturity.

As I began to love myself I stopped craving for a different life, and I could see that everything that surrounded me was inviting me to grow. Today, I call it 'maturity'.

In the end, everything is a gag.

It is not pleasure that makes life worth living. It is life that makes pleasure worth having.

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.

There are two tragedies in life. One is to lose your heart's desire. The other is to gain it.

Life is a flame that is always burning itself out; but it catches fire again every time a child is born. Life is greater than death, and hope than despair.