Life Quotes

From the first dawn of life, all organic beings are found to resemble each other in descending degrees, so that they can be classed in groups under groups. This classification is evidently not arbitrary like the grouping of stars in constellations.

Much love much trial, but what an utter desert is life without love.

How so many absurd rules of conduct, as well as so many absurd religious beliefs, have originated, we do not know; nor how it is that they have become, in all quarters of the world, so deeply impressed on the minds of men; but it is worthy of remark that a belief constantly inculcated during the early years of life, while the brain is impressionable, appears to acquire almost the nature of an instinct; and the very essence of an instinct is that it is followed independently of reason.

Nothing is permanent in this wicked world - not even our troubles.

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.

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.