How vain it is to sit down to write when you have not stood up to live.
-Henry David Thoreau
Quotations
Life
I exhort you also to take part in the great combat, which is the combat of life, and greater than every other earthly conflict.
-Plato "Plato"
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"
Is life not a thousand times too short for us to bore ourselves?
-Friedrich Nietzsche
Life is anything that dies when you stomp on it.
-David "Dave" Barry
Remember: the time you feel lonely is the time you most need to be by yourself. Life's cruelest irony.
-Douglas Coupland
"Shampoo Planet"
There is a very fine line between loving life and being greedy for it.
-Maya Angelou
The shoe that fits one person pinches another; there is no recipe for living that suits all cases.
-Carl Gustav Jung
Without an ever-present sense of death, life is insipid. You might as well live on the whites of eggs.
-Muriel Spark "Muriel Spark"
But how could you live and have no story to tell?
-Fyodor M. Dostoevsky
"White Nights"
