Life Quotes

"I have never written a book about my life, because I was too busy living it."

"You can't get away from yourself by moving from one place to another."

"Drinking wine was not a sordid thing."

"You cannot create experience. You must undergo it."

"All stories end in death."

"The privilege of a lifetime is to become who you truly are."

"Life is a God damn, stinking, treacherous game and nine hundred and ninety-nine men out of every thousand are fools."

"Life is really a series of mistakes and absurdities."

"Life is what happens when you are busy making other plans."

"Life has got all those twists and turns. It's got layoffs, it's got fights, it's got moments of great hope."

"All the sad young men."

"There are only the pursued, the pursuing, the busy and the tired."

"There's no such thing as a second act in American life."

"It's just that life is hard."

"Drinking was a poison and a cure."

"Just when you think it can't get any worse, it can, and it does."

"Youth is wasted on the young."

"There are no second acts in American life, but there are unexpected footnotes."

"To eat is human, to cook divine."

"Americans are far too serious about their food. It is something to be enjoyed, not revered."

"It seems to me that all the things of life depend on some form of routine."

"One cannot be deeply responsive to the world without being saddened very often."

"Real life is, to most men, a perpetual compromise between the ideal and the possible."

"Life is the biggest gamble of all."

"Habits form in us a second nature."

"Life began for me when I ceased to admire and began to remember."

"I would rather have one sharp, vivid memory than many indifferent ones."

"The world is always breaking some one of us; we are always getting born again."

"Life has never been easy for any of us, and I don't suppose it ever will be."

"Everything in life is a test, except it is all real."