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When adversity strikes, that’s when you have to be the most calm. Take a step back, stay strong, stay grounded and press on. L L Cool J
Life goes by fast. Enjoy it. Calm down. It’s all funny. Next. Everyone gets so upset about the wrong things. Joan Rivers
Even as I’m shovelling up my hooter, I realize the sad truth. Coke bores me. It bores us all. We’re jaded cunts, in a scene we hate, a city we hate, pretending that we’re at the centre of the universe, trashing ourselves with crap drugs to stave off the feeling that real life is happening somewhere else, aware that all we’re doing is feeding that paranoia and disenchantment, yet somehow we’re too apathetic to stop. ’Cause, sadly, there’s nothing else of interest to stop for. Irvine Welsh, Porno
We start off with high hopes, then we bottle it. We realise that we’re all going to die, without really finding out the big answers. We develop all those long-winded ideas which just interpret the reality of our lives in different ways, without really extending our body of worthwhile knowledge, about the big things, the real things. Basically, we live a short disappointing life; and then we die. We fill up our lives with shite, things like careers and relationships to delude ourselves that it isn’t all totally pointless. Irvine Welsh
What’s the point in being alive? FAWLTY TOWER [crooked L] Fawlty Towers s1e2: The Builders, Polly to Basil
This life of ours is a wonderful life. But it’s very unpredictable. There are so many ways you can screw it up. Witness to the Mob 1998 starring Tom Sizemore & Nicholas Turturro & Debi Mazar & Abe Vigoda & Philip Baker Hall & Frank Vincent & Lenny Venito & Angelo Ruggiero & Michael Imperioli et al, director Thaddeus O'Sullivan
Children grow up thinking the adult world is ordered, rational, fit for purpose. Crap. Become a man is realising it’s all rotten. The Night Manager III, Roper to Jonathan, BBC 2016
Life is gonna even up somehow. Life is gonna turn around and bite you in the back. Bill O’Reilly, cited Mike Wallace is Here, Sky Documentaries 2022
What we do in life ripples in eternity. Marcus Aurelius, A.D. 121-180
Dwell on the beauty of life. Watch the stars, and see yourself running with them. Marcus Aurelius
Not caring has been my formula from day one. Eminem
Life, friends, is boring. John Berryman, 77 Dream Songs, 1964
Thus have the gods spun the thread for wretched mortals; they that live in grief while they themselves are without cares; for two jars stand on the floor of Zeus, of the gifts which he gives, one of Evils and another of Blessings. Homer, The Iliad
A happy life consists in tranquillity of mind. Cicero, author and politician 100 B.C.- 43 B.C.
Somewhat like this appears the life of man; but of what follows or what went before, we are utterly ignorant. The Venerable Bede, Ecclesiastic History of the English People
Nowadays men lead lives of noisy desperation. James Thurber
Be happy, drink, think each day your own as you live it and leave the rest to fortune. Euripides, c.485-406 B.C.
Live with yourself; get to know how poorly furnished you are. Persius, Satires IV i 52
That happens all the time. You know. Well, people make errors or jump at conclusions. You see, it’s so painful to write down all the details of a proof that at times you say, All right, this is obvious, and you go on. Usually that’s where the error lies. Professor Jean DieuDonne, French mathematician
Life is not about finding our limitations, it’s about finding our infinity. Herbie Hancock
I did not direct my life. I didn’t design it. I never made decisions. Things always came up and made them for me. That’s what life is. B F Skinner
I think your whole life shows in your face and you should be proud of that. Lauren Bacall, Daily Telegraph 2nd March 1988
Let me not seem to have lived in vain. Tycho Brahe
There is no living with thee, nor without thee. Joseph Addison
Three grand essentials to happiness in this life are something to do, something to love, and something to hope for. George Washington Burnap
A long life may not be good enough but a good life is long enough. Benjamin Franklin
The purpose of life is not to be happy. It is to be useful, to be honorable, to be compassionate, to have it make some difference that you have lived and lived well. Author Unknown, attributed Ralph Waldo Emerson, possibly Leo Rosten
If you give up smoking, drinking, loving, you don’t live longer. It just seems longer. Clement Freud, Liberal politician
I hurry to laugh at everything, for fear of having to weep at it. Pierre-Augustin Caron de Beaumachais, 1732-1799, Le Babier de Seville
Drinking when we are not thirsty and making love all year round, madam; that is all there is to distinguish us from other animals. Pierre-Augustin Caron de Beaumarchais, Le Mariage de Figaro, 1785
Living is abnormal. Eugene Ionesco, Le Rhinoceros, 1959
We must not allow the clock and the calendar to blind us to the fact that each moment of life is a miracle and mystery. H G Wells
When I went to the doctor he gave me six months to live; when I told him I couldn’t pay, he gave me six months more. Walter Matthua, attributions & variations inc Henny Youngman & Tommy Cooper
Life is a gamble at terrible odds – if it was a bet, you wouldn’t take it. Tom Stoppard, Rosencrantz and Guildenstern are Dead 1967
For me, music and life are all about style. Miles Davis
In a fleshly tomb I am buried above ground. Bill Cooper
Living is an illness to which sleep provides relief every sixteen hours. It’s a palliative, The remedy is death. Nicolas-Sebastien Chamfort
Life is just filled really with suffering and despair. Francis Bacon, cited The Art of Francis Bacon
I think that art is an obsession with Life. ibid.
How can you not think that Life is totally futile? ibid.
Between Birth and Death it’s always been the same thing: the violence of life. I always think they are images of sensation. After all, what is life but sensation? What we feel. What happens. What happens at the moment. We are born and we die. And that’s it. There’s nothing else. We are born and we die. But in between we give this purposeless existence a meaning by our drives. ibid.