In three words I can sum up everything I've learnt about life: it goes on.
-Robert Frost
Quotations
Life
When I hear somebody sigh, “Life is hard”, I am always tempted to ask, compared to what?
-Sydney J. Harris
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
Everything has been figured out, except how to live.
-Jean Paul Sartre
Not being dead isn't being alive.
-E. E. Cummings
Life is like a beautiful melody, only the lyrics are messed up.
-Hans Christian Anderson
Without an ever-present sense of death, life is insipid. You might as well live on the whites of eggs.
-Muriel Spark "Muriel Spark"
Don’t hate life and death or love life and death. Keep your every thought free of delusion, and in life you’ll witness the beginning of nirvana, and in death you’ll experience the assurance of no rebirth.
-Bodhidharma "Bodhidharma"
Books say: She did this because. Life says: She did this. Books are where things are explained to you; life is where things aren't. I'm not surprised some people prefer books.
-Julian Barnes
"Flaubert's Parrot"
Do not take life too seriously. You will never get out of it alive.
-Elbert Hubbard
