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Quotations by Subject: Life
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Showing quotations 61 to 78 of 78 quotations in our collections

When I hear somebody sigh, "Life is hard," I am always tempted to ask, "compared to what?": Sydney J. Harris
Life is an unbroken succession of false situations.: Thornton Wilder (1897 - 1975)
Life is a moderately good play with a badly written third act.: Truman Capote (1924 - 1984)
It is a funny thing about life; if you refuse to accept anything but the best, you very often get it.: W. Somerset Maugham (1874 - 1965)
Life is just a mirror, and what you see out there, you must first see inside of you.: Wally 'Famous' Amos (1936 - )
Life isn't fair. It's just fairer than death, that's all.: William Goldman, "The Princess Bride"
The great use of a life is to spend for something that outlasts it.: William James (1842 - 1910)
And so from hour to hour, we ripe and ripe, and then, from hour to hour,we rot and rot; and thereby hangs a tale.: William Shakespeare (1564 - 1616), As You Like It, Act II, sc. 7
I am sure care's an enemy to life.: William Shakespeare (1564 - 1616), Twelfth Night, Act I, sc. 3
Life is as tedious as a twice-told tale Vexing the dull ear of a drowsy man.: William Shakespeare (1564 - 1616), "King John", Act 3 scene 4
Life is as tedious as a twice-told tale vexing the dull ear of a drowsy man.: William Shakespeare (1564 - 1616), King John, Act III, sc. 4
The cloud-capp'd towers,the gorgeous palaces, The solemn temples, the great globe itself, Yea, all which it inherit, shall dissolve, And, like this insubstantial pageant faded, Leave not a rack behind. We are such stuff As dreams are made on; and our little life Is rounded with a sleep.: William Shakespeare (1564 - 1616), The Tempest, Act IV, sc. 1
The web of our life is of a mingled yarn, good and ill together.: William Shakespeare (1564 - 1616), All's Well that Ends Well, Act IV, sc. 3
The world's mine oyster, which I with sword will open.: William Shakespeare (1564 - 1616), The Merry Wives of Windsor, Act II, sc. 2
Life is divided into the horrible and the miserable.: Woody Allen (1935 - )
Life is full of misery, loneliness, and suffering - and it's all over much too soon.: Woody Allen (1935 - )
The goal of life is living in agreement with nature.: Zeno (335 BC - 264 BC), from Diogenes Laertius, Lives of Eminent Philosophers

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