James M. Barrie

"Life is a series of collisions with the future; it is not the sum of what we have been, but what we yearn to be."

Jose Ortega y Gasset

"Life is half spent before we know what it is."

George Herbert

"Life is something to do when you can't get to sleep."

Fran Lebowitz

"Life is wasted on the living."

Douglas Adams

"Life itself still remains a very effective therapist."

Karen Horney

"Like all sciences and all valuations, the psychology of women has hitherto been considered only from the point of view of men."

Karen Horney

"Literature is mostly about having sex and not much about having children. Life is the other way round."

David Lodge

"Look, I don't want to wax philosophic, but I will say that if you're alive you've got to flap your arms and legs, you've got to jump around a lot, for life is the very opposite of death, and therefore you must at very least think noisy and colorfully, or you're not alive."

Mel Brooks

"May you live every day of your life."

Jonathan Swift

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

Arthur Miller

"My formula for living is quite simple. I get up in the morning and I go to bed at night. In between, I occupy myself as best I can."

Cary Grant

"Never be bullied into silence. Never allow yourself to be made a victim. Accept no one's definition of your life; define yourself."

Harvey Fierstein

"Not a shred of evidence exists in favor of the idea that life is serious."

Brendan Gill

"Not life, but good life, is to be chiefly valued."

Socrates

"Only a few things are really important."

Marie Dressler

"People living deeply have no fear of death."

Anais Nin

"The art of living is more like wrestling than dancing."

Marcus Aurelius

"The basic fact about human existence is not that it is a tragedy, but that it is a bore. It is not so much a war as an endless standing in line."

H. L. Mencken

"The fear of life is the favorite disease of the 20th century."

William Lyon Phelps

"The great use of life is to spend it for something that will outlast it."

William James

"The mass of men lead lives of quiet desperation."

Henry David Thoreau

"The perfect normal person is rare in our civilization."

Karen Horney

"The price of anything is the amount of life you exchange for it."

Henry David Thoreau

"The purpose of life is a life of purpose."

Robert Byrne