Quotes about life

Existence itself does not feel horrible; it feels like an ecstasy, rather, which we have only to be still to experience.

"Look, Nelson. Maybe I haven't done everything right in my life. I know I haven't. But I haven't committed the greatest sin. I haven't laid down and died."

"Can you tell me the time of the last complete show?"

"You have the wrong number."

"Eh? Isn't this the Odeon?"

I decide to give a Burtonian answer.

"No, this is the Great Theatre of Life. Admission is free but the taxation is mortal. You come when you can, and leave when you must. The show is continuous. Good-night."

If you don't hurry up and let life know what you want, life will damned soon show you what you'll get.

This is the revenge of the unlived life, Ramsay. Suddenly it makes a fool of you.

Perhaps life is just that... a dream and a fear.

May you live as long as you wish and love as long as you live.

I have never been able to see life as anything but a vast complicated practical joke, and it’s better to laugh than cry.

From my point of view it is better to be alive and young again, and broke, than it is to be the richest corpse in Forest Lawn.

“Yes, maybe it’s just one colossal big joke with no point to it.” Lazarus stood up and stretched and scratched his ribs. “But I can tell you this, Andy, whatever the answers are, here’s one monkey that’s going to keep on climbing, and looking around him to see what he can see, as long as the tree holds out.”

“What course of action do you favor?”

“Me? Why, none. Mary, if there is any one thing I have learned in the past couple of centuries, it’s this: These things pass. Wars and depressions and Prophets and Covenants—they pass. The trick is to stay alive through them.”

Fake yuppie experiences that you had to spend money on, like white water rafting or elephant rides in Thailand don't count. I want to hear some small moment from your life that proves you're really alive.