When I'm with you, I feel a kind of calm I've never felt in my life. I'm tangled up in you and you're tangled up in me and it feels right. Like it was meant to be.
—Rachel Gibson in Tangled Up In You
Life… is like a grapefruit. It's orange and squishy, and has a few pips in it, and some folks have half a one for breakfast.
—Douglas Adams
The aim of life is to live, and to live means to be aware, joyously, drunkenly, serenely, divinely aware.
—Henry Miller
Don't wait too long. Life takes unexpected turns, and we don't always have the time we think we have.
—Sylvain Reynard in Gabriel's Rapture
A lifetime is more than sufficiently long for people to get what there is of it wrong.
—Piet Hein
To be honest, I tend to romanticize the past, and though I appreciate all the conveniences of modern life, sometimes I yearn for simpler times.
—Aziz Ansari in Modern Romance
Life is a tragedy when seen in close-up, but a comedy in long-shot.
—Charlie Chaplin
One's real life is often the life that one does not lead.
—Oscar Wilde
It might be the biggest mistake of her life, but being here with him felt right.
—Leia Shaw in Boy Meets Nerd
I don't paint to live, I live to paint.
—Willem de Kooning
The right kind of love is supposed to bring out the best in people. It adds to your life, fills in all those gaps you didn't even realize were there.
—Cambria Hebert in #Rev
Life is a great sunrise. I do not see why death should not be an even greater one.
—Vladimir Nabokov
Life is like an onion. You peel it off one layer at a time, and sometimes you weep.
—Carl Sandburg
We all pay for life with death, so everything in between should be free.
—Bill Hicks
No man's life, liberty or property are safe while the legislature is in session.
—Judge Gideon J. Tucker