What a wee little part of a person's life are his acts and his words! His real life is led in his head, and is known to none but himself.
-Mark Twain
Quotations
Life
He who has a 'why' to live, can bear with almost any 'how'.
-Friedrich Nietzsche
There are two tragedies in life. One is to lose your heart's desire. The other is to gain it.
-George Bernard Shaw
Man's real life is happy, chiefly because he is ever expecting that it soon will be so.
-Edgar Allan Poe
Life's tragedy is that we get old too soon and wise too late.
-Benjamin Franklin
Life isn't as serious as the mind makes it out to be.
-Eckhart Tolle
What counts in life is not the mere fact that we have lived. It is what difference we have made to the lives of others that will determine the significance of the life we lead.
-Nelson Mandela "Nelson Mandela"
Life should not be a journey to the grave with the intention of arriving safely in a pretty and well preserved body, but rather to skid in broadside in a cloud of smoke, thoroughly used up, totally worn out, and loudly proclaiming, Wow! What a Ride!
-Hunter S. Thompson
Sing your life; any fool can think of words that rhyme.
-Morrissey
This is how the entire course of a life can be changed : By doing nothing.
-Ian McEwan
"On Chesil Beach"
