Life Quotes

"Every person is the author of their own unfinished story."

"All that matters is to eat and evacuate."

"The tears of the world are a constant quantity."

"Nothing strange about the human condition."

"We are born astride the grave."

"We live not by days but by disappointments."

"I have committed every sin except suicide."

"We are all children wandering lost in the dark."

"Any idiot can face a crisis; it is this day-to-day living that wears you out."

"Sorrow is a two-edged sword, as is joy."

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

"What we anticipate seldom occurs; what we least expect generally happens."

"Life isn't about finding yourself. Life is about creating yourself."

"Self-denial is not a virtue; it is only the effect of prudence on rascality."

"Take care to get what you like, or you will be forced to like what you get."

"The supreme theme of life and death, of birth, destruction, and rebirth."

"Youth is a blunder; manhood a struggle; old age a regret."

"We are dying before we have learnt to live."

"Life is short, make it count."

"Be yourself; everyone else is already taken."

"To live is the rarest thing in the world. Most people exist, that is all."

"Always be yourself, unless you can be Batman. Then always be Batman."

"To get back my youth I would do anything in the world, except take exercise, get up early, or be respectable."

"Habit is a great deadener."

"We need to suffer to know we're alive."

"One cannot always be up-beat, you know."

"Mundanity is what defeats life."

"What does it mean to be alive if one is not living?"

"The only sin is to bore yourself."

"We are dying of boredom like dogs in a trap."