“There's nothing more ironic or contradictory than life itself.”
Life quotes
1207 life quotes, film quotes, movie lines, taglines-
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“Look, I really don't want to wax philosophical, but I will say that if you're alive, you got to flap your arms and legs, you got to jump around a lot, you got to make a lot of noise, because life is the very opposite of death. And therefore, as I see it, if you're quiet, you're not living. You've got to be noisy, or at least your thoughts...” (continue) (continue reading)
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“We seem to have reached the age where life stops giving us things and starts taking them away.”
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“I do know that I'm responsible not for what happens, but for what I make of it.”
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“If you live an ordinary life, all you'll have are ordinary stories. You have to live a life of adventure.”
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“A man should control his life. Mine is controlling me.”
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“Life is nothing but a series of conflicts, in a way, surmounting one and coming to another.”
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“Death ends a life, not a relationship.”
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“It's good to experience Hollywood in short bursts, I guess. Little snippets. I don't think I can handle being here all the time, it's pretty nutty.”
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“We're here for such a short period of time. Live like you're already dead, man. Have a good time. Do your best. Let it all come ripping right through you.”
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“We don't get to choose who we love or who loves us back. And that means you're powerless to me as long as you're alive, because I'm the fabric of life.”
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“We are born alone, we live alone, we die alone. Everything in-between is a gift.”
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“Because we do not know when we will die, we get to think of life as an inexhaustible well.”
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“- Arlene McKinney: So, is that all you want? Your goddamn manageable day?
- Eugene Simonet: It's what I have.
- Arlene McKinney: No, it isn't.
- Eugene Simonet: It is what I've always had.
- Arlene McKinney: Is it what you want?”
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“I can't play anything until I find something that connects to my life.”
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“You've got only one life to live. You can either make it chickenshit or chicken salad.”
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“In Virginia, high school football is a way of life, it's bigger than Christmas day.”
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“- Mickey: You had the talent to become a good fighter, but instead of that, you become a legbreaker to some cheap, second rate loanshark!
- Rocky: It's a living.
- Mickey: It's a waste of life!”
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“- Miss Beryl: Doesn't it bother you that you haven't done more with the life God gave you?
- Sully: Not often. Now and then.”
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- Jim Craig: “United in death” the minister said.
- Spur: Superstition.
- Jim Craig: It's a nice thought, Spur.
- Spur: It's a great comfort to widows and fools. There's more to life than death, Jim.
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