Life is what happens to you while you're busy making other plans.
-John Lennon
Quotations
Life
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"
My life didn't please me, so I created my life.
-Coco Chanel
Life is life – Whether in a cat, or dog or man. There is no difference there between a cat or a man. The idea of difference is a human conception for man’s own advantage.
-Sri Aurobindo
The chief danger in life is that you may take too many precautions.
-Alfred Adler
You were given life; it is your duty (and also your entitlement as a human being) to find something beautiful within life, no matter how slight.
-Elizabeth Gilbert
No one who does good deeds will ever come to a bad end, either here or in the world to come. When such people die, they go to other realms where the righteous live.
-Srimad Bhagavad Gita "Bhagwad Gita 6.40-41"
There are only two tragedies in life: one is not getting what one wants, and the other is getting it.
-Oscar Wilde
Nobody wants to be here and nobody wants to leave.
-Cormac McCarthy
"The Road"
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"
