To be content with life -- or to live merrily, rather --all that is required is that we bestow on all things only a fleeting, superficial glance; the more thoughtful we become the more earnest we grow.

My soul is in the sky.

William Shakespeare

I beseech you, my brothers, remain faithful to the earth, and do not believe those who speak to you of otherworldly hopes! Poison-mixers are they, whether they know it or not. Despisers of life are they, decaying and poisoned themselves, of whom the earth is weary: so let them go. Once the sin against God was the greatest sin; but God died, and these sinners died with him. To sin against the earth is now the most dreadful thing, and to esteem the entrails of the unknowable higher than the meaning of the earth... What is the greatest experience you can have? It is the hour of the great contempt. The hour when your happiness, too, arouses your disgust, and even your reason and your virtue.

Friedrich Nietzsche

I followed the same diet for 20 years, eliminating starches, living on salads, lean meat, and small portions.

Gene Tierney

Ultimately life is disease, death and oblivion. It's still better than high school.

Dan Savage

La supervivencia no es cuestión de cortesía ni de disculpas.

Stephen King

Too poor for a bribe, and too proud to importune, he had not the method of making a fortune.

Thomas Gray

It can be really powerful to write something when you're sad.

Kathryn Stockett

Anythin' for a quiet life, as the man said when he took the situation at the lighthouse

Charles Dickens

I didn't have a financial need, and I wasn't very gifted at relationships. I probably was more like what we think of boys as being: hard to pin down and wary of commitment.

Candice Bergen

A few years ago it dawned on me that everybody past a certain age ... pretty much constantly dreams of being able to escape from their lives. They don't want to be who they are any more. They want out. This list includes Thurston Howell the Third, Ann-Margret, the cat members of Rent, Václav Havel, space shuttle astronauts and Snuffleupagus. It's universal.

Douglas Coupland

The time when most of you should withdraw into yourself is when you are forced to be in a crowd.

Epicurus

Joe E. Lewis said, 'Money doesn't buy happiness but it calms the nerves.' And that is how I feel about a film being well-received.

Alexander Payne