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• Quotations by Subject: Life (78 quotes)

Results from Rand Lindsly's Quotations:

There are two tragedies in life. One is not to get your heart's desire. The other is to get it.

George Bernard Shaw (1856 - 1950)

Internet is so big, so powerful and pointless that for some people it is a complete substitute for life.

Andrew Brown

Life is an effort that deserves a better cause.

Karl Kraus (1874 - 1936)

When you're in love it's the most glorious two and a half days of your life.

Richard Lewis

The trouble with us in America isn't that the poetry of life has turned to prose, but that it has turned to advertising copy.

Louis Kronenberger

'If a person were to try stripping the disguises from actors while they play a scene upon stage, showing to the audience their real looks and the faces they were born with, would not such a one spoil the whole play ? And would not the spectators think he deserved to be driven out of the theatre with brickbats, as a drunken disturber ?... Now what else is the whole life of mortals but a sort of comedy, in which the various actors, disguised by various costumes and masks, walk on and play each one his part, until the manager waves them off the stage ? Moreover, this manager frequently bids the same actor to go back in a different costume, so that he who has but lately played the king in scarlet now acts the flunkey in patched clothes. Thus all things are presented by shadows.'

Erasmus, The Praise of Folly

The juvenile sea squirt wanders through the sea searching for a suitable rock or hunk of coral to cling to and make its home for life. For this task, it has a rudimentary nervous system. When it finds its spot and takes root, it doesn't need its brain anymore so it eats it! (It's rather like getting tenure.)

Daniel Dennett, from CONSCIOUSNESS EXPLAINED p. 177

I'm not apt to be getting married in the near future and my lifestyle isn't apt to dramatically change as a result of any new relationship.

Hugh Hefner, Playboy Interview - January 1974

I love acting. It is so much more real than life.

Oscar Wilde (1854 - 1900)

...they no longer felt like newlyweds, and even less like belated lovers. It was as if they had lept over the arduous calvary of conjugal life and gone straight to the heart of love. They were together in silence like an old married couple wary of life, beyond the pitfalls of passion, beyond the brutal mockery of hope and the phantoms of disillusion: beyond love. For they had lived together long enough to know that love was always love, anytime and anyplace, but it was more solid the closer it came to death.

Gabriel Garcia Marquez, from "Love in the Time of Cholera"