The supreme irony of life is that no one gets out of it alive.
Robert Heinlein
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ROBERT A. HEINLEIN The supreme irony of life is that hardly anyone gets out of it alive.
ROBERT HEINLEIN For every SF reader of that period, Robert A. Heinlein was also a touchstone.
WALTER JON WILLIAMS No one here gets out alive.
JIM MORRISON Life is hard, no one makes it out alive.
UNKNOWN When you were in least of need, people or objects turned up but when you were in a fraught situation...
DEEPIKA KUMAARAGURU Ein Optimist ist ein Mensch, der ein Dutzend Austern bestellt, in der Hoffnung, sie mit der Perle, d...
THEODOR FONTANE And it was strange, I thought, that sorrow lasts and can make a man look forward to death, but the m...
V.S. NAIPAUL The irony of life is like a brothel without prostitutes--but don't you worry, prostitutes don't need...
EFRAT CYBULKIEWICZ But a desperate heart will seduce the mind.
MITCH ALBOM To say "He was a young fool, and now he's an old fool" is to make a distinction without a difference...
GARY INBINDER Remember though, your best weapon is between your ears and under your scalp -provided it's loaded.
ROBERT A. HEINLEIN We will all be destroyed whether we like it or not. I say let's like it.
DBC PIERRE Life is a danger zone & a one way traffic,for its a place once inside nobody gets out alive.
DAVID ATTA (A.K.A DAVIED ATTLARS & MR DAIN) Name the fears that are holding you back. It's the equivalent of flooding the boogeyman with light.
GINA GREENLEE As one gets older, life becomes a morbid game of "who's still alive?"
TROY J. GAINEY Events fall into a pattern that we can only discern retrospectively. We credit ourselves with far mo...
NEEL MUKHERJEE An irony of whole life story is that a person who says or does honestly good for others is not so mu...
ANUJ SOMANY What must I say, that you don’t know on your own?
NIKHIL SHRIVASTAVA Then Carrot said, "It's better to light a candle than curse the darkness, captain. That's what they ...
TERRY PRATCHETT My aunt and overprivileged cousin only recognize two states of being: glitter and grunge. And if you...
RACHEL VINCENT The earliest depiction of libertarian eugenics may have appeared in a science fiction novel, Robert ...
GREGORY BENFORD Never take life seriously. Nobody gets out alive anyway.
SHORT QUOTES TANSTAAFL: There ain't no such thing as a free lunch.
PIERRE DOS UTT Life is weird and wonderful like that, is it not.
SONYA.E.WILLIAMS Don't take life so serously, no one comes out alive anyway.
FRANK ARDUINI The irony of man's condition is that the deepest need is to be free of the anxiety of death and anni...
ERNEST BECKER We all are wearing many hundred glasses of different colors. Therefore, everyone sees the world in d...
MUDITHA CHAMPIKA It is very possible before the Human Life Amendment gets to the Supreme Court that another justice m...
DAVID ROGERS Character is supreme in life, hence Jesus stood supreme in the supreme thing - so supreme that, when...
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“In a slum somewhere in India
As...
THE PROPHET OF LIFE Maya Angelou had the ability to glean inspiration out of pain.
THE PROPHET OF LIFE If we cannot always be entirely sane in our relationships, the kindest thing we can do for those who...
THE SCHOOL OF LIFE The old adage--humor is the best way to make the unbearable bearable--may be true.
MARY ANN SHAFFER Reword and its an Innovation. Irony
TALEES RIZVI It's one of the maddening perversities of human psychology that we only notice we're alive when we'r...
TIM KREIDER If I had but the time and you had but the brain
LEWIS CARROLL We all are wearing many hundred glasses of different colors. So, everyone see the world in different...
MUDITHA CHAMPIKA Stop worrying -- nobody gets out of this world alive.
CLIVE JAMES Stop worrying / nobody gets out of this world alive.
CLIVE JAMES There is an ecstasy that marks the summit of life, and beyond which life cannot rise. And such is th...
JACK LONDON The supreme question about a work of art is out of how deep a life does it spring.
JAMES JOYCE There is an ecstasy that marks the summit of life, and beyond which life cannot rise. And such is th...
JACK LONDON It's a funny old world - a man's lucky if he gets out of it alive.
W. C. FIELDS One man gets nothing but discord out of a piano; another gets harmony. No one claims the piano is at...
SOURCE UNKNOWN The irony of the Supreme Court hearing on these cases last week and of the outright hostility that t...
CLIFF STEARNS One who forgives and forgets gets more out of life.
MUHAMMED HAIDER There's one irony it has no pictures.
EDMUND FULLER No one knew much about the Twenty-Eighth Infantry. It was not a glamour outfit.
They knew abou...
MILES WATSON Without an element of vulgarity, no man can be a work of art...I have to try and think what an artis...
QUENTIN CRISP The greenhorn is the ultimate victor in everything; it is he that gets the most out of life.
G. K. CHESTERTON The greenhorn is the ultimate victor in everything; it is he that gets the most out of life.
GILBERT K. CHESTERTON Food- the only thing that the fortunate ones put aside to satisfy their fancy dietary plans and work...
ADHISH MAZUMDER People say it's not what happens in your life that matters, it's what you think happened. But this q...
GEOFF DYER To suppose more than one supreme Source of infinite wisdom, power, and all perfections, is to assert...
ADAM CLARKE The point is, there is no point." Philip spoke up surprisingly. "No one here gets out alive. And ove...
ROSEMARY EDGHILL Nobody gets irony anymore, as we are now living in the post-ironic age. Once George Bush gets a libr...
ERIC IDLE The saddest aspect of life is that there is no one on earth whose happiness is such that he won't so...
HERODOTUS Do not let that game destroy your life. Get rid of it, get outside..
TREVON CLARK Romanes eunt domus
LIFE OF BRIAN I am probably the most selfish man you will ever meet in your life. No one gets the satisfaction or ...
JERRY LEWIS Without God there could be no American form of government nor an American way of life. Recognition o...
DWIGHT DAVID EISENHOWER Irony became the head that bit its tail and then there is no way out.
ALEJANDRO GONZALEZ INARRITU I don't know the meaning of life. I don't know why we are here. I think life is full of anxieties an...
CHARLES M. SCHULZ Life begins somewhere and ends somewhere with time but to get somewhere with the life you have depen...
ERNEST AGYEMANG YEBOAH One of the big breakthroughs, I think for me, was reading Robert A. Heinlein's four rules of wri...
GEORGE R. R. MARTIN I don't know if I have a favorite color.
KATE MIDDLETON It's very special having a new little girl.
KATE MIDDLETON Why things are not easy?
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'Cause life is not.
MAYANK KUMAR LOUTERIYA Who will be left at the end of the day?
The answer is, no one!
ANTHONY T.HINCKS Make no mistake, adolescence is a war. No one gets out unscathed.
HARLAN COBEN Perhaps the saddest irony of depression is that suicide happens when the patient gets a little bette...
DICK CAVETT Providence sees to it that no man gets happiness out of crime.
CONTE VITTORIO ALFIERI Science is great for us. But for someone who sees the humans for more than one million years, scienc...
MUDITHA CHAMPIKA Sometimes, the only thing that gets you out of bed in the morning is that one person who can brighte...
KAORU SHINMON It takes strength to be proud of yourself and to accept yourself when you know that you have somethi...
ABIGAIL TARTTELIN Blood that was warm has now run cold
bled every day have hearts become old
Telling I am th...
PRABHUKRISHNA M The meaning of life: For centuries "man" searched for the meaning of life. On that journey, the valu...
DORIS J TORRES This God of Abraham has a good job, a very good job indeed, he’s credited by his followers for hon...
BOBBY W. MILLER There is no route out of the maze. The maze shifts as you move through it, because it is alive.
PHILIP K. DICK Worry is the interest you pay on a debt you may not owe.
KEITH CASERTA You'd think, since goodreads is now part of Amazon, it would be updated/updateable as Amazon is upda...
CINDY (CL) ROWELL COWLES It is obvious that members of the Senate on both sides of the aisle really are troubled by the way t...
BARRY FRIEDMAN Keep learning! Learning means growing. He who always learns knows how to grow in maturity. When we s...
ERNEST AGYEMANG YEBOAH There were four major 20th-century science fiction writers: Arthur C. Clarke, Isaac Asimov, Robert A...
ROBERT J. SAWYER The supreme happiness of life is the conviction that we are loved.
VICTOR HUGO The supreme happiness of life is the conviction that we are loved
VICTOR HUGO Nonviolence is the supreme law of life.
PROVERB Nonviolence is the supreme law of life.
INDIAN PROVERB Irony is a disciplinarian feared only by those who do not know it, but cherished by those who do. He...
SOREN KIERKEGAARD Things don’t have significance: they only have existence.
Things are the only hidden meaning ...
ALBERTO CAEIRO Life's irony;No matter how ugly a guy may look,if he can confidently approach one thousand ladies,on...
DAVID ATTA (A.K.A DAVIED ATTLARS & MR DAIN) You can't get out of life alive
LES BROWN Road to destination is often very straight with journey smooth, but majority has tendency to meander...
ANUJ SOMANY The tree of life is made of purity, eternity and has the bark of wisdom and enlightenment.With its b...
GARY F EVANS... Home is watching the moon rise over the open, sleeping land and having someone you can call to the w...
STEPHEN KING Don't take life seriously because you can't come out of it alive.
WARREN MILLER Don't take life too seriously. You'll never get out of it alive.
ELBERT HUBBARD Life is short, and that's why, I don't test people; because we all fail tests sometimes, but that is...
C. JOYBELL C. The man stopped talking and was looking at the sunset.
But what does someone who hates and love...
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ROBERT A. HEINLEIN Never underestimate the power of human stupidity.
ROBERT A. HEINLEIN Anyone who considers protocol unimportant has never dealt with a cat.
ROBERT A. HEINLEIN I was there to see beautiful naked women. So was everybody else. It's a common failing.
ROBERT A. HEINLEIN The trouble with conspiracies is that they rot internally.
ROBERT A. HEINLEIN Theology is never any help; it is searching in a dark cellar at midnight for a black cat that isn...
ROBERT A. HEINLEIN Butterflies are not insects,' Captain John Sterling said soberly. 'They are self-propelled flowers.
ROBERT A. HEINLEIN Butterflies are self propelled flowers.
ROBERT A. HEINLEIN The Universe was a damned silly place at best . . . but the least likely explanation for its existen...
ROBERT A. HEINLEIN Love is that condition in which the happiness of another person is essential to your own... Jealousy...
ROBERT A. HEINLEIN An armed society is a polite society. Manners are good when one may have to back up his acts with hi...
ROBERT A. HEINLEIN One could write a history of science in reverse by assembling the solemn pronouncements of highest a...
ROBERT A. HEINLEIN Political tags - such as royalist, communist, democrat, populist, fascist, liberal, conservative, an...
ROBERT A. HEINLEIN Goodness without wisdom always accomplishes evil.
ROBERT A. HEINLEIN The most preposterous notion that Homo sapiens has ever dreamed up is that the Lord God of Creation,...
ROBERT A. HEINLEIN For me, politeness is a sine qua non of civilization.
ROBERT A. HEINLEIN It is a truism that almost any sect, cult, or religion will legislate its creed into law if it acqui...
ROBERT A. HEINLEIN The supreme irony of life is that hardly anyone gets out of it alive.
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