But how could you live and have no story to tell?
-Fyodor M. Dostoevsky
"White Nights"
Quotations
Life
Just when I found out the meaning of life, they changed it.
-George Carlin
Life is as dear to a mute creature as it is to man. Just as one wants happiness and fears pain, just as one wants to live and not die, so do other creatures.
-Dalai Lama Xiv
The closer we come to death, the more important becomes this single indispensable thing called life.
-Leo Tolstoy
You ask: What is the meaning or purpose of life? I can only answer with another question: Do you think we are wise enough to read God's mind?
-Freeman Dyson
"The Meaning of Life"
I don't think that there are any limits to how excellent we could make life seem.
-Jonathan Safran Foer
"Everything is Illuminated"
Life is anything that dies when you stomp on it.
-David "Dave" Barry
Life is full of chances and changes, and the most prosperous of men may… meet with great misfortunes.
-Aristotle
Life is 10 percent what you make it, and 90 percent how you take it.
-Irving Berlin
Life is as dear to the mute creature as it is to a man. Just as one wants happiness and fears pain, just as one wants to live and not to die, so do other creatures.
-Dalai Lama Xiv "The XIV Dalai Lama"
