Life is easier than you’d think; all that is necessary is to accept the impossible, do without the indispensable, and bear the intolerable.  ~Kathleen Norris

When we remember we are all mad, the mysteries disappear and life stands explained.  ~Mark Twain

One wanders through life as if wandering through a field in the dark of night, wearing a blindfold and very heavy shoes, with a poisonous toad waiting patiently beneath a clump of weeds, knowing full well that eventually you will step on him.  ~Lemony Snicket

There are people who so arrange their lives that they feed themselves only on side dishes.  ~José Ortega y Gasset

The universe is like a safe to which there is a combination.  But the combination is locked up in the safe.  ~Peter De Vries, Let Me Count the Ways, 1965

Every creatures stalks some other, and catches it, and is caught.  ~Mignon McLaughlin, The Neurotic’s Notebook, 1960

A great part of life consists in contemplating what we cannot cure.  ~Robert Louis Stevenson

I have come one step away from everything.  And here I stay, far from everything, one step away.  ~Antonio Porchia, Voces, 1943, translated from Spanish by W.S. Merwin

Anxiety and distress, interrupted occasionally by pleasure, is the normal course of man’s existence.  ~Joseph Wood Krutch

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Most of the shadows of this life are caused by our standing in our own sunshine.

The purpose of life is a life of purpose.

After the game, the king and the pawn go into the same box.

Life is simple, its just not easy.

Life is a tragedy for those who feel, and a comedy for those who think.

A life without cause is a life without effect.

We make our fortunes, and we call them fate.

The mass of men lead lives of quiet desperation.

The best way to prepare for life is to begin to live.

In spite of the cost of living, it’s still popular.

Life’s a voyage that’s homeward bound.

Life is a foreign language: all men mispronounce it.

Life is a rich strain of music, suggesting a realm too fair to be.

To live is so startling it leaves little time for anything else.

One way to get the most out of life is to look upon it as an adventure.

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

To live is like to love–all reason is against it, and all healthy instinct for it.

Life is a whim of several billion cells to be you for a while.

Life is a great big canvas; throw all the paint on it you can.

Life is like a coin. You can spend it any way you wish, but you only spend it once.

We don’t see things as they are, we see them as we are.

We are born wet, naked, and hungry. Then things get worse.

Few are those who see with their own eyes and feel with their own hearts.

Life is like a beautiful melody, only the lyrics are messed up.

I never think of the future. It comes soon enough.

Life is a cement trampoline.

An intellectual is someone whose mind watches itself.

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

The life that is unexamined is not worth living.

Life is what happens to you while you’re busy making other plans.

God pours life into death and death into life without a drop being spilled.

Life is something that happens when you can’t get to sleep.

Life is what we make it, always has been, always will be.