We
only seem to learn from Life that Life doesn't
matter so much as it seemed to do -- it's not so
burningly important, after all, what happens. We
crawl, like blinking sea-creatures, out of the
Ocean onto a spur of rock, we creep over the
promontory bewildered and dazzled and hurting
ourselves, then we drop in the ocean on the
other side: and the little transit doesn't
matter so much.
-- D. H. Lawrence
1885-1930,
British Author
Life, we learn too late, is in the living, the
tissue of every day and hour.
-- Stephen B.
Leacock
1869-1944,
Canadian Humorist, Economist
Most people think life sucks, and then you die.
Not me. I beg to differ. I think life sucks,
then you get cancer, then your dog dies, your
wife leaves you, the cancer goes into remission,
you get a new dog, you get remarried, you owe
ten million dollars in medical bills but you
work hard for thirty-five years and you pay it
back and then -- one day -- you have a massive
stroke, your whole right side is paralyzed, you
have to limp along the streets and speak out of
the left side of your mouth and drool but you go
into rehabilitation and regain the power to walk
and the power to talk and then -- one day -- you
step off a curb at Sixty-seventh Street, and
BANG you get hit by a city bus and then you die.
Maybe.
-- Denis Leary
Life is something you do when you can't get to
sleep.
-- Fran Lebowitz
1951-, American
Journalist
