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«Life is a tragedy full of joy.»
Author: Bernard Malamud (Novelist, Writer) | About: Life
«Life is a tragedy when seen in close-up, but a comedy in long-shot.»
«Life is a tragedy for those who feel, but a comedy to those who think.»
Author: Horace Walpole | About: Life | Keywords: comedy
«Life is a wonderful thing to talk about, or to read about in history books - but it is terrible when one has to live it»
«Life is a temperamental state of mind.»
Author: Jordan Hostetler | About: Life | Keywords: temperamental
«Life is a verb.»
Author: Charlotte Perkins Gilman (Economist, Lecturer, Writer) | About: Life | Keywords: verb
«Life is a sum of all your choices.»
Author: Albert Camus (Essayist, Novelist, Playwright) | About: Choice, Life | Keywords: choices, sum
«Life is a warfare and a stranger's sojourn, and after fame is oblivion.»
Author: Marcus Aurelius | About: Fame, Life | Keywords: oblivion, sojourn, sojourning, warfare
«Life is a voyage.»
Author: Victor Hugo (Dramatist, Novelist, Poet) | About: Life | Keywords: voyage, voyaging
«Life is a tale told by an idiot -- full of sound and fury, signifying nothing.»