Quotations about Life

1-Life is not always fair. Sometimes you get a splinter even sliding down a rainbow.

2-I have a simple philosophy: Fill what's empty. Empty what's full. Scratch where it itches.

3-Life is like a coin. You can spend it any way you wish, but you only spend it once.

4-The great business of life is to be, to do, to do without, and to depart.

5-Who will tell whether one happy moment of love or the joy of breathing or walking on a bright morning and smelling the fresh air, is not worth all the suffering and effort which life implies.

6-Why torture yourself when life'll do it for you?

7-Life is not so bad if you have plenty of luck, a good physique, and not too much imagination.

8-We tear life out of life to use it for looking at itself.

9-Few of us write great novels; all of us live them.

10-Life is like an onion; you peel off layer after layer and then you find there is nothing in it.

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