Man's real life is happy, chiefly because he is ever expecting that it soon will be so.
-Edgar Allan Poe
Quotations
Life
Beware the barrenness of a busy life.
-Socrates
You only live once, but if you do it right, once is enough.
-Mae West
The language of excitement is at best picturesque merely. You must be calm before you can utter oracles.
-Henry David Thoreau
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"
Life is only the present. And in the present, neither there is room for memories of
the past nor worries of the future. The root cause of all the miseries of life is the
effort to accommodate the past or future in the present.
-Deep Trivedi
To be what we are, and to become what we are capable of becoming, is the only end of life.
-Robert Louis Stevenson "R. L. Stevenson"
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
Some relationships are like Tom and Jerry. They tease each other, knock down each other, irritate each other, but can’t live without each other.
-Anonymous "Anonymous"
Nobody wants to be here and nobody wants to leave.
-Cormac McCarthy
"The Road"
