Life Quotes

"Death doesn't change us more than life." ~ The Old Curiosity Shop by Charles Dickens In any case life is but a procession of shadows, and God knows why it is that we embrace them so eagerly, and see them depart with such anguish, being shadows. ~ Jacob's Room by Virginia Woolf "Would the world ever have been made if its maker had been afraid of making trouble? Making life means making trouble." ~ Pygmalion by George Bernard Shaw "This is a miserable world," says the Sergeant. "Human life, Mr. Betteredge, is a sort of target—misfortune is always firing at it, and always hitting the mark." ~ The Moonstone by Wilkie Collins "What is life but a series of inspired follies?" ~ Pygmalion by George Bernard Shaw "Uncertainty and expectation are the joys of life. Security is an insipid thing, and the overtaking and possessing of a wish discovers the folly of the chase." ~ Love for Love by William Congreve In the world of ideas everything was clear; in life all was obscure, embroiled. ~ Crome Yellow by Aldous Huxley Life was a damned muddle . . . a football game with every one off-side and the referee gotten rid of--every one claiming the referee would have been on his side. ~ This Side of Paradise by F. Scott Fitzgerald "Life and money both behave like loose quicksilver in a nest of cracks. And when they're gone we can't tell where--or what the devil we did with 'em!" ~ The Magnificent Ambersons by Booth Tarkington "I'd much rather have no religion, and enjoy life while I'm in it, than choose one to worry me here and bedevil me hereafter." ~ Uncle Silas by J. Sheridan Le Fanu