Life(63)

"Wars and elections are both too big and too small to matter in the long run. The daily work - that goes on, it adds up."
Barbara Kingsolver

"Why does a person even get up in the morning? You have breakfast, you floss your teeth so you'll have healthy gums in your old age, and then you get in your car and drive down I-10 and die. Life is so stupid I can't stand it."
Barbara Kingsolver

"Life is something to do when you can't get to sleep."
Fran Lebowitz

"Literature is mostly about having sex and not much about having children. Life is the other way round."
David Lodge

"I have a simple philosophy: Fill what's empty. Empty what's full. Scratch where it itches."
Alice Roosevelt Longworth

"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."
H. L. Mencken

"Don't take life seriously because you can't come out of it alive."
Warren Miller

"Maybe all one can do is hope to end up with the right regrets."
Arthur Miller

"He who has a why to live can bear almost any how."
Friedrich Nietzsche

"People living deeply have no fear of death."
Anais Nin