Life is a tragedy when seen in close-up, but a comedy in long-shot.
-Charlie Chaplin
Quotations
Life
It's not that I believe everything happens for a reason. It's just that . . . I just think that some things are meant to be broken, imperfect and chaotic. It's the universe's way of providing contrast, you know? There have to be a few holes in the road. It's how life is.
-Sarah Dessen
"The Truth About Forever"
The only real conflict you will ever have in your life won’t be with others but with yourself.
-Shannon L. Alder "Shannon. L. Alder"
It is impossible to live a pleasant life without living wisely and well and justly. And it is impossible to live wisely and well and justly without living a pleasant life.
-Epicurus
Life itself is simple...it's just not easy.
-Steve Maraboli
Life is really simple, but we insist on making it complicated.
-Confucius
Don't be afraid of death; be afraid of an unlived life.
-Natalie Babbitt
"Tuck Everlasting"
Not being dead isn't being alive.
-E. E. Cummings
Is life not a thousand times too short for us to bore ourselves?
-Friedrich Nietzsche
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"
