Quotes about life

An idea of great merit! While we are alive we should sit among colored lights and taste good wines, and discuss our adventures in far places; when we are dead, the opportunity is past.

For there is no such thing as perpetual Tranquility of mind, while we live here; because Life it selfe is but Motion, and can never be without Desire, nor without Feare, no more than without Sense.

"All right, all right, all right," she said with a sigh, "let's hear the story of life in a blinding flash."

"The wreckers against the builders!" said Elmer. "There's the whole story of life!"

"And I've got more news for you."

"Yes?" piped Ivy.

"I am not going to help the wreckers," said Elmer. "My son and I are builders."

Adam and Eve, more in love than they have ever been before, tell Him that they like life all right, but that they would like it even better if they could know that it was going to end sometime.

Extenuating circumstance to be mentioned on Judgment Day: We never asked to be born in the first place.

What is flirtatiousness but an argument that life must go on and on and on?

This is my principal objection to life, I think: It is too easy, when alive, to make perfectly horrible mistakes.

To the as-yet-unborn, to all innocent wisps of undifferentiated nothingness: Watch out for life.

I have caught life. I have come down with life. I was a wisp of undifferentiated nothingness, and then a little peephole opened quite suddenly. Light and sound poured in. Voices began to describe me and my surroundings. Nothing they said could be appealed.

Hello, babies. Welcome to Earth. It's hot in the summer and cold in the winter. It's round and wet and crowded. At the outside, babies, you've got about a hundred years here. There's only one rule that I know of, babies — "God damn it, you've got to be kind."

"My God — life! Who can understand even one little minute of it?""Don't try," [Castle] said. "Just pretend you understand."

He reported his avocation as: "Being alive."He reported his principal occupation as: "Being dead."

Busy, busy, busy, is what we Bokononists whisper whenever we think of how complicated and unpredictable the machinery of life really is.