Tuesday, November 4, 2008

Quotes: Life (8)

Life 158 "We should all be obliged to appear before a board every five years and justify our existence…." George Bernard Shaw, Portable Curmudgeon.

Life 170 "Life does not cease to be funny when people die any more than it ceases to be serious when people laugh." George Bernard Shaw, Portable Curmudgeon.

Life 170 "Life is not so bad if you have plenty of luck, a good physique and not too much imagination." Christopher Isherwood, Portable Curmudgeon.

Life 171 Life defined. "Life is a predicament which precedes death." Henry James, Portable Curmudgeon.

Life 171 "Human life is a flash of occasional enjoyments lighting up a mass of pain and misery, a bagatelle of transient experience." A. N. Whitehead, Portable Curmudgeon.

Life 172 "Life is like an onion: you peel off layer after layer and then you find there is nothing in it." J. G. Huneker, Portable Curmudgeon.

Life 172 "The first half of life is ruined by our parents, and the second half by our children." Clarence Darrow, Portable Curmudgeon.

Life 172 "The meaning of life is that it stops." Franz Kafka, Portable Curmudgeon.

Life 173 "Life is nothing but a competition to be the criminal rather than the victim." Bertrand Russell, Portable Curmudgeon.

Life 173 "Life is a … treacherous game and nine hundred and ninety-nine men out of a thousand are bastards." Theodore Dreiser, Portable Curmudgeon.

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