Short Sayings

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

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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