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Sep 13, 2025
Life has meaning only if one barters it day by day for something other than itself.
Life is little more than a loan shark: It exacts a very high rate of interest for the few pleasures it concedes
Maybe all one can do is hope to end up with the right regrets.
I think everybody should get rich and famous and do everything they ever dreamed of so they can see that it's not the answer.
I think I've discovered the secret of life - you just hang around until you get used to it.
Life was a damned muddle - a football game with everyone offside and the referee gotten rid of - everyone claiming the referee would have been on his side.
Not a shred of evidence exists in favor of the idea that life is serious.
Fill what is empty, empty what is full, and scratch where it itches.
I have a simple philosophy: Fill what's empty. Empty what's full. Scratch where it itches.
There is only one difference between a long life and a good dinner: that, in the dinner, the sweets come last.
When we remember we are all mad, the mysteries disappear and life stands explained.
Life is not having been told that the man has just waxed the floor.
Running is the greatest metaphor for life, because you get out of it what you put into it.
You fall out of your mother's womb, you crawl across open country under fire, and drop into your grave.
Life is like an onion: you peel off layer after layer and then you find there is nothing in it.
Life is a series of collisions with the future.
Don't go around saying the world owes you a living.
The mass of men lead lives of quiet desperation.
You will never live if you are looking for the meaning of life.
Life is like a beautiful melody, only the lyrics are messed up.
You will never be happy if you continue to search for what happiness consists of. You will never live if you are looking for the meaning of life.
Life is half spent before we know what it is.
Any idiot can face a crisis - it's day to day living that wears you out.
Don't go around saying the world owes you a living. The world owes you nothing. It was here first.
The art of living is more like wrestling than dancing.
All the art of living lies in a fine mingling of letting go and holding on.
I arise in the morning torn between a desire to improve the world and a desire to enjoy the world. This makes it hard to plan the day.
It is a tale told by an idiot, full of sound and fury; signifying nothing.
To live is so startling it leaves little time for anything else.
Fortunately analysis is not the only way to resolve inner conflicts. Life itself still remains a very effective therapist.
Here is the test to find whether your mission on Earth is finished: if you're alive, it isn't.
Life may have no meaning. Or even worse, it may have a meaning of which I disapprove.
He who has a why to live can bear almost any how.
Who will tell whether one happy moment of love or the joy of breathing or walking on a bright morning and smelling the fresh air, is not worth all the suffering and effort which life implies.
The price of anything is the amount of life you exchange for it.
In three words I can sum up everything I've learned about life: it goes on.
All the world's a stage, and all the men and women mearly players.
Life is like riding a bicycle. To keep your balance, you must keep moving.
My momma always said, "Life was like a box of chocolates. You never know what you're gonna get."
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