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Life Is Like Quotes (page 25)

Dear Die-ary, there's nothing terribly wrong with feeling lost, so long as that feeling precedes some plan on your part to actually do something about it. Too often a person grows complacent with their disillusionment, perpetually wearing their "discomfort" like a favorite shirt. I can't say I'm very pleased with where my life is just now... but I can't help but look forward to where it's going. Jhonen Vasquez
Sara Kendell once read somewhere that the tale of the world is like a tree. The tale, she understood, did not so much mean the niggling occurrences of daily life. Rather it encompassed the grand stories that caused some change in the world and were remembered in ensuing years as, if not histories, at least folktales and myths. By such reasoning, Winston Churchill could take his place in British folklore alongside the legendary Robin Hood; Merlin Ambrosius had as much validity as Martin... Charles de Lint
In a brutal country like ours, where human life is 'cheap', it's stupid to destroy yourself for the sake of your beliefs. Beliefs? High ideas? Only people in rich countries can enjoy such luxuries. Orhan Pamuk
Albert Einstein quote: "Philosophers play with the word, like a child with a doll......."
Philosophers play with the word, like a child with a doll.... It does not mean that everything in life is relative. Albert Einstein
The real reason why I should not like to be in the book trade for life is that while I was in it I lost my love of books. A bookseller has to tell lies about books, and that gives him a distaste for them. George Orwell
What an awful thing life is, isn’t it? It’s like soup with lots of hairs floating on the surface. You have to eat it nevertheless. Gustave Flaubert
... and in the world beyond the tale we turn the page or close the book and resume our lives. A life that is, like any other, unlike any other. Neil Gaiman
John Steinbeck quote: "A wife is like a children's movie; always under-appreciated..."
A wife is like a children's movie; always under-appreciated and without either, life would be incomplete John Steinbeck
The purpose of man is like the purpose of a pollywog - to wiggle along as far as he can without dying; or, to hang to life until death takes him. Clarence Darrow
Daily there have to be many troubles and trials in every house, city, and country. No station in life is free of suffering and pain, both from your own, like your wife or children or household help or subjects, and from the outside, from your neighbors and all sorts of accidental trouble. Martin Luther
I’ve come to believe that everything in life is worked out in advance. So whenever bad shit happens, there ain’t nothing you can do about it. You’ve just gotta ride it out. And eventually death will come, like it comes to everyone. Ozzy Osbourne
The whole of life is just like watching a film. Only it's as though you always get in ten minutes after the big picture has started, and no-one will tell you the plot, so you have to work it out all yourself from the clues. Terry Prachett
Graham Greene quote: "The more unstable life is the less one likes the small details..."
The more unstable life is the less one likes the small details to alter. Graham Greene
Come and see us if you feel like it,' she said. 'I always expect people to ask themselves. Life is too short to send out invitations. Daphne du Maurier
Paris Hilton quote: "A life without orgasms is like a world without flowers."
A life without orgasms is like a world without flowers. Paris Hilton

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