Random Quote #306

Fiction is life with the dull bits left out. 

Clive James

Random Quote #300

Stories make sense when so much around us is senseless, and perhaps what makes them most comforting is that while life goes on and pain goes on, stories do us the favor of ending. 

John Hodgman

Random Quote #286

Some things in life are out of your control. You can make it a party or a tragedy. 

Nora Roberts

Random Quote #284

Tomorrow's life is too late. Live today. 

 Marcus Valerius Martialis

Random Quote #278

The truth is life is full of joy and full of great sorrow, but you can't have one without the other. 

Andre Dubus III

Random Quote #275

We never know the quality of someone else's life, though we seldom resist the temptation to assume and pass judgement. 

Tami Hoag

Random Quote #271

My life amounts to no more than one drop in a limitless ocean. Yet what is any ocean, but a multitude of drops? 

David Mitchell

Random Quote #270

Don't take life too seriously. Punch it in the face when it needs a good hit. Laugh at it. 

Colleen Hoover

Random Quote #267

There are no wrong turnings. Only paths we had not known we were meant to walk. 

Guy Gavriel Kay

Random Quote #263

Life is a mirror: if you frown at it, it frowns back; if you smile, it returns the greeting. 

William Makepeace Thackeray

Random Quote #249

Our memory is a more perfect world than the universe: it gives back life to those who no longer exist. 

Guy de Maupassant

Random Quote #248

If there's a single lesson that life teaches us, it's that wishing doesn't make it so. 

Lev Grossman

Random Quote #232

One, remember to look up at the stars and not down at your feet. Two, never give up work. Work gives you meaning and purpose and life is empty without it. Three, if you are lucky enough to find love, remember it is there and don't throw it away. 

Stephen Hawking

Random Quote #219

No one can construct for you the bridge upon which precisely you must cross the stream of life, no one but you yourself alone. 

 Friedrich Nietzsche

Random Quote #206

One must live as if it would be forever, and as if one might die each moment. Always both at once. 

Mary Renault

Random Quote #197

My life has a superb cast, but I cannot figure out the plot.

Ashleigh Brilliant

Random Quote #196

All animals except man know that the ultimate of life is to enjoy it.

Samuel Butler

Random Quote #195

The longer I live, the more beautiful life becomes.

Frank Lloyd Wright

Random Quote #188

I read so I can live more than one life in more than one place. 

Anne Tyler

Random Quote #181

You only live once, but if you do it right, once is enough. 

Mae West