"Love is the answer, but while you are waiting for the answer, sex raises some pretty good questions." - Woody Allen

"Life may have no meaning. Or even worse, it may have a meaning of which I disapprove." - Ashleigh Brilliant

"In life, as in art, the beautiful moves in curves." - Edward Robert Bulwer-Lytton

"There is but one truly serious philosophical problem, and that is suicide. Judging whether life is or is not worth living amounts to answering the fundamental question of philosophy." - Albert Camus, The Myth of Sisyphus

"Life is a succession of lessons which must be lived to be understood." - Thomas Carlyle

"Nor has he spent his life badly who has passed it in privacy." - Cicero

"Life is but thought." - Samuel Taylor Coleridge

"In life we shall find many men that are great, and some that are good, but very few men that are both great and good." - Charles Caleb Colton

"A man who dares to waste one hour of time has not discovered the value of life." - Charles Darwin

"Lying is an indispensable part of making life tolerable." - Bergen Evans

"The art of life is to know how to enjoy a little and to endure very much." - William Hazlitt

"So long as we do not blow our brains out, we have decided life is worth living." - Edgar Watson Howe

"We are sinful not merely because we have eaten of the tree of knowledge, but also because we have not eaten of the tree of life." - Franz Kafka

"Life is either a daring adventure or nothing. Security is mostly a superstition. It does not exist in nature." - Helen Keller

"Life's more amusing than we thought." - Andrew Lang

"Life is real! Life is earnest! And the grave is not its goal; Dust thou art, to dust returnest, Was not spoken of the soul." - Henry Wadsworth Longfellow

"The universe is change; our life is what our thoughts make it." - Marcus Aurelius, Meditations, IV, 3

"The basic fact about human existence is not that it is a tragedy, but that it is a bore. It is not so much a war as an endless standing in line." - Henry Louis Mencken

"My candle burns at both ends; it will not last the night; but ah, my foes, and oh, my friends - it gives a lovely light!" - Edna St. Vicent Millay

"Life's a tough proposition, and the first hundred years are the hardest." - Wilson Mizner

"Life is the game that must be played, this truth at least, good friends, we know; so live and laugh, nor be dismayed as one by one the phantoms go." - Edwin Arlington Robinson

"No man enjoys the true taste of life, but he who is ready and willing to quit it." - Seneca

"As is a tale, so is life: not how long it is, but how good it is, is what matters." - Seneca

"Life is a pilgrimage. The wise man does not rest by the roadside inns. He marches direct to the illimitable domain of eternal bliss, his ultimate destination." - Sivananda

"Life is short. Time is fleeting. Realise the Self. Purity of the heart is the gateway to God. Aspire. Renounce. Meditate. Be good; do good. Be kind; be compassionate. Inquire, know Thyself." - Sivananda

"The unexamined life is not worth living." - Socrates

"All you need in life is ignorance and confidence, and then success is sure." - Mark Twain

"I gave my life to become what I am now. Was it worth it?" - Bach, Richard in 'One'

"The secret of happiness is not in doing what one likes, but in liking what one has to do." - Barrie, James M.

"Is not life more than food, and the body more than clothing? Look at the birds of the air: they neither sow nor reap nor gather into barns, and yet your heavenly father feeds them." - Bible (Matthew ?:?) Jesus to the people, Sermon on the Mount

"I say, if your knees aren't green by the end of the day, you ought to seriously re-examine your life!" - Calvin in Bill Watterson's 'Calvin & Hobbes' comic strip.

"I think the best proof of intelligent life on other worlds is that they haven't actually tried to contact us!" - Calvin in Bill Watterson's 'Calvin & Hobbes' comic strip

"We saw our own lives in terms of promise, not pessimism. We thought our job here on Earth was to build up, not tear down; to unite, not to divide." - Clinton, William Jefferson in convocation speech at UCLA, on the death of Jacqueline Kennedy-Onassis

"Love may not make the world go round, but I must admit that it makes the ride worthwhile." - Connery, Sean

"Death, the most dreaded of evils, is therefore of no concern to us; for while we exist death is not present, and when death is present we no longer exist." - Epicurus

"Life is a book on fire, read by the light of its own burning pages." - Ferguson, Tim [poster from Dartmouth College, Hanover, NH] posted on alt.quotations <3okuha$b3u@dart

"Don't forget until too late that the business of life is not business, but living." - Forbes, B. C.

"All changes, even the most longed for, have their melancholy; for what we leave behind us is a part of ourselves; we must die to one life before we can enter another." - France, Anatole

"As soon as you trust yourself, you will know how to live." - Goethe, Johann Wolfgang von (1749-1832)

"Don't be afraid your life will end; be afraid that it will never begin." - Hansen, Grace

"Do not take life too seriously. You will never get out of it alive." - Hubbard, Elbert (1856-1915)

"Be not afraid of life. Believe that life is worth living and your belief will help create the fact." - Jones, William

"The unlived life is not worth examining." - Kopp, Sheldon B. [psychiatrist] (1929- )

"Universities are full of knowledge; the freshmen bring a little in and the seniors take none away, and knowledge accumulates." - Lowell, Abbott L. (1856-1943)

"Do not look for rest in any pleasure, because you were not created for pleasure: you were created for Joy. And if you do not know the difference between pleasure and joy you have not yet begun to live." - Merton, Thomas

"Life is a foreign language; all men mispronounce it." - Morley, Christopher

"Without music, life would be a mistake." - Nietzsche, Friedrich Wilhelm (1844-1900)

"The art of life is a constant readjustment to our surroundings." - Okakaura, Kakuzo

"Le coeur a ses raisons dont le cerveau ne sait nul. T: 'The heart has its reasons, of which the mind knows nothing.'" - Pascal, Blaise (1623-1662)

"Paul: Hey Norm, how's the world been treating you? Norm: Like a baby treats a diaper." - Peterson, Norman [Norm!] in 'Tan 'n' Wash', 'Cheers'

"Well, it's a dog-eat-dog world, and I'm wearing Milk-Bone underwear." - Peterson, Norman [Norm!] in 'The Peterson Principle', 'Cheers'

"'I meant,' said Ipslore bitterly, 'what is there in this world that truly makes living worth while?' Death thought about it. 'Cats,' he said eventually, 'Cats are nice.'" - Pratchett, Terry in 'Sourcery'

"Death is more universal than life; everyone dies but not everyone lives." - Sachs, A.

"Life is partly what we make it, and partly what it is made by the friends we choose." - Tehyi, Hsieh

"I went to the woods because I wished to live deliberately, to front only the essential facts of life, and to see if I could not learn what it had to teach, and not, when I came to die, discover that I had not lived." - Thoreau, Henry David in 'Walden', II, Where I Lived, and What I Lived For

"Don't part with your illusions. When they are gone you may still exist but you have ceased to live." - Twain, Mark [pseudonym of Samuel Langhorne Clemens] (1835-1910)

"Life without love is a shadow of things that might be." - Unknown

"Some people are so afraid to die that they never begin to live." - VanDyke, Henry

"There is a land of the living and a land of the dead and the bridge is love, the only survival, the only meaning." - Wilder, Thornton

"Life is a long lesson in humility." - JAMES M. BARRIE, The Little Minister

"If it were possible to talk to the unborn, one could never explain to them how it feels to be alive, for life is washed in the speechless real." - JACQUES BARZUN, The House of Intellect

"Is life worth living? This is a question for an embryo, not for a man." - SAMUEL BUTLER (d 1902), Note-Books

"Life is one long process of getting tired." - SAMUEL BUTLER (d 1902), Note-Books

"Birth, and copulation, and death.
That's all the facts when you come to brass tacks."
- T.S. ELIOT, Sweeney Agonistes

"Life is made up of marble and mud." - NATHANIEL HAWTHORNE, The House of Seven Gables

"Life is short, art long, (ars longa, vita brevis) opportunity fleeting, experience treacherous, judgment difficult." - HIPPOCRATES, Aphorisms

"Life is just one damned thing after another." - ELBERT HUBBARD, A Thousand and One Epigrams

"Live all you can; it's a mistake not to. It doesn't so much matter what you do in particular, so long as you have your life. If you haven't had that, what have you had?" - HENRY JAMES, The Ambassadors

"As far as we can discern, the sole purpose of human existence is to kindle a light in the darkness of mere being." - CARL JUNG, Memories, Dreams, Reflections

"When life is miserable it is painful to endure it; when it is happy it is horrible to lose it; both come to the same thing. Life is something to do when you can't get to sleep." - LA BRUYERE, Les Caracteres

"We are always beginning to live, but are never living." - MARCUS MANILIUS, Astronomica

"It is not true that life is one damn thing after another - it's one damn thing over and over." - EDNA ST. VINCENT MILLAY, letter (1930)

"Life is a foreign language: all men mispronounce it." - CHRISTOPHER MORLEY, Thunder on the Left

"Oh, life is a glorious cycle of song,
A medley of extemporanea;
And love is a thing that can never go wrong;
And I am Marie of Roumania."
- DOROTHY PARKER, Comment

"Life is short, but its ills make it seem long." - PUBLILIUS SYRUS, Maxims

"There are no classes in life for beginners; right away you are always asked to deal with what is most difficult." - RAINER MARIA RILKE, The Notebooks of Malte Laurids Brigge

"Life is as tedious as a twice-told tale
Vexing the dull ear of a drowsy man."
- SHAKESPEARE, King John

"Life's but a walking shadow, a poor player
That struts and frets his hour upon the stage
And then is heard no more: it is a tale
Told by an idiot, full of sound and fury,
Signifying nothing."
- SHAKESPEARE, Macbeth

"All the world's a stage,
And all the men and women merely players;
They have their exits and their entrances;
And one man in his time plays many parts,
His acts being seven ages."
- SHAKESPEARE, As You Like It

"The shortness of life cannot dissuade us from its pleasures, nor console us for its pains." - MARQUIS DE VAUVENARGUES, Reflections and Maxims

"Life is an offensive, directed against the repetitious mechanism of the Universe." - ALFRED NORTH WHITEHEAD, Adventures of Ideas

"I spent the afternoon musing on Life. If you come to think of it, what a queer thing Life is! So unlike anything else, don't you know, if you see what I mean." - P.G. WODEHOUSE, My Man Jeeves