Life is pain, highness. Anyone who tells you differently is selling something.
-William Goldman
"The Princess Bride"
Quotations
Life
There are two tragedies in life. One is to lose your heart's desire. The other is to gain it.
-George Bernard Shaw
The trouble is if you don’t spend your life yourself, other people will spend it for you.
-Peter Shaffer
"Five Finger Exercise: A Play"
One doesn’t recognize the really important moments in one’s life until it’s too late.
-Agatha Christie
Beware the barrenness of a busy life.
-Socrates
How soon you overcome each incident, good or bad happening with you reveals
how deeply you understand life?
-Deep Trivedi
Do not take life too seriously. You will never get out of it alive.
-Elbert Hubbard
A purpose of human life, no matter who is controlling it, is to love whoever is around to be loved.
-Kurt Vonnegut
"The Sirens of Titan"
Death is extraordinarily like life when we know how to live.
-J. Krishnamurti
Every one of us is losing something precious to us. Lost opportunities, lost possibilities, feelings we can never get back again. That’s part of what it means to be alive.
-Haruki Murakami
"Kafka on the Shore"
