Life Quotes

“Some day... you will understand, you will know life's other side better than you do to-day: you will see that not all the pleasure is to the rich... nor all the sorrow to the poor, for you will, as you journey on through life, have noted that the law of compensation is ever exacting, adding here and taking there, while life shall last.”

“Life: the insomnia of death.”

“Life: A compromise between Fate and Freewill.”

“Life: What you choose to make it.”

“Life: A bank-account with so much divine energy at your disposal.”

“Life: The interval between the time your teeth are almost through and you are almost through with your teeth.”

“Life: An affirmative between two negatives.”

“I am steady — I always was; to take the ills of life with composure, and keep care from robbing the flesh off your bones, is to be steady. I have had a trouble or two, but I have shaken them off like the snow-flakes, and enjoyed life all the more. What is life — this three-fourths humbug — without enjoyment?”

“Life is like a blanket too short. You pull it up and your toes rebel, you yank it down and shivers meander about your shoulder; but cheerful folks manage to draw their knees up and pass a very comfortable night.”

“Life is cruel? Compared to what?”

“Life is hard? True — but let's love it anyhow, though it breaks every bone in our bodies.”

“KATRIN. Mama... have you had a very hard life? MAMA. Hard? No. No life is easy all the time. It is not meant to be. KATRIN. But... rich people... aren't their lives easy? MAMA. I don't know, Katrin. I have never known any rich people. But I see them sometimes in stores and in the streets, and they do not look as if they were easy. KATRIN. Wouldn't you like to be rich? MAMA. I would like to be rich the way I would like to be ten feet high. Would be good for some things — bad for others.”