Life Quotes

The big one. What it means, how to live it, and why it's worth the effort.

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"Life is something that happens when you can't get to sleep."
Joan Rivers
"Better to be dead and cool than alive and uncool."
Joan Rivers
"These hands have been in a lot of places."
Joan Rivers
"I want to live until I die. Not just exist."
Joan Rivers
"I have no regrets. Life is too short to regret anything."
Joan Rivers
"Life should NOT be a journey to the grave with the intention of arriving safely in an attractive and well preserved body."
Joan Rivers
B
"Attachment is the root of suffering."
Buddha (Siddhartha Gautama)
B
"The root of suffering is attachment."
Buddha (Siddhartha Gautama)
B
"The worst kind of suffering is not to know your purpose."
Buddha (Siddhartha Gautama)
B
"Life is a journey, not a destination."
Buddha (Siddhartha Gautama)
B
"Ambition is like a feverish flame, always consuming more and never satisfied."
Buddha (Siddhartha Gautama)
B
"The purpose of life is not to be happy. It is to be useful, to be honorable, to be compassionate."
Buddha (Siddhartha Gautama)
R
"Life is what happens when you're busy making other plans."
Richard Pryor
R
"I think about dying but I don't want to die."
Richard Pryor
R
"Life is a journey, not a destination."
Richard Pryor
R
"I think the best thing about life is the unexpected moments."
Richard Pryor
A
"Decide what your life is about and then say no to everything that isn't that."
Amy Poehler
A
"Make bold choices and make mistakes. It's all those things that add up to the life that's actually yours."
Amy Poehler
L
"Take it easy, but take it."
Lenny Bruce
L
"Life is what happens while you're planning something else."
Lenny Bruce
"Life is a stage, and you're either the lead or an extra—choose accordingly."
Joan Rivers
"I refuse to believe that age is anything but a number and a state of mind."
Joan Rivers
G
"When you're born you get a ticket to the freak show. When you're born in America, you get a front row seat."
George Carlin
G
"Just when you thought things couldn't get worse, they do."
George Carlin
G
"Congratulations. You're still alive. It doesn't matter. It'll pass."
George Carlin
G
"How is it that we always end up here?"
George Carlin
G
"Everyday I break my personal record for the number of days I've been alive."
George Carlin
G
"You don't really need to do anything, just be yourself."
George Carlin
B
"What we think, we become. All that we are arises with our thoughts. With our thoughts, we make the world."
Buddha (Siddhartha Gautama)
B
"What we are today comes from our thoughts of yesterday, and our present thoughts build our life of tomorrow."
Buddha (Siddhartha Gautama)