100+ Bad Life Quotes | InspiringQuotes.us

source: "My Year Of Flops Norm MacDonald's Film Career Died For Your Sins Case File #133: Dirty Work" by Nathan Rabin, www.avclub.com. March 18, 2009.

topic: Beer, Self, Matter, Dirty Work, Bad Life

Good taste is the excuse I've always given for leading such a bad life

- Oscar Wilde

topic: Failure, Taste, Excuse, Good Taste, Bad Life

I remain committed to my core family as one I can trust and depend on. The end result is the assurance that I'm surrounded by the people who will help me, stick by me, and fight alongside me, through good and bad, life and death.

- Sonny Barger

source: FaceBook post by Sonny Barger from Feb 15, 2015

topic: Fighting, People, Life And Death, Bad Life, End Results

The adult May fly lives only a few hours, just long enough to mate. He has neither mouth nor stomach, but needs neither since he does not live long enough to need to eat. The eggs the May fly leaves hatch after the parent has died. What is it all about. What's the point? There is no point. That's just the way it is. It is neither good nor bad. Life is mainly simply inevitable. (41)

- Sheldon B. Kopp

topic: Eggs, Long, Parent, Bad Life

A lover of what is looks forward to everything: life, death, disease, loss, earthquakes, bombs, anything the mind might be tempted to call 'bad.' Life will bring us everything we need, to show us what we haven't undone yet. Nothing outside ourselves can make us suffer. Except for our unquestioned thoughts, every place is paradise.

- Byron Katie

topic: Loss, Earthquakes, Mind, Bad Life

You cannot know a man's life before the man has died, then only can you call it good or bad.

- Sophocles

source: Aeschylus, Sophocles, Euripides (1959). “Sophocles”

topic: Life, Men, He Man, Bad Life

Sex and commerce are fine things, but man cannot live by Viagra and the Dow Jones alone. A life led collecting things and experiences in pursuit of happiness is not necessarily a bad life, but it's not a good life either. Too often, the Democrats act like the Party of Lust, and the Republicans the Party of Greed. Both are deadly sins that eat at the soul.

- Rod Dreher

source: Rod Dreher (2010). “Crunchy Cons: The New Conservative Counterculture and Its Return to Roots”, p.12, Crown

topic: Sex, Good Life, Party, Deadly Sins, Dow Jones

Breathe. It's only a bad day not a bad life.

- Ashley Purdy

topic: Life, Bad Day, Breathe, Bad Life

Life is not easy. But that's not the only truth that matters in this context. It also happens to be true that it takes just as much effort to have a "bad life," in which you don't get what you want, as it does to have a "good life," where you do. So given the choice, why not go for the good life?

- David Bach

source: David Bach (2018). “Smart Couples Finish Rich, Revised and Updated: 9 Steps to Creating a Rich Future for You and Your Partner”, p.101, Currency

topic: Good Life, Effort, Choices, Bad Life, Life Is Not Easy

When you think of blues, all you think about is crying guitar like B.B. King's guitar. You think about someone crying that their woman's gone. And how bad life is and all that. Why can't it be something happy with the blues? Why can't it have a hip-hop beat to which you can do the dances of today?

- Ike Turner

topic: Kings, Thinking, Guitar, Bad Life

If you've lived a bad life, they send you to Hell. But if you've been truly wicked, they give you a tour of Heaven first...

- Spider Robinson

topic: Giving, Heaven, Wicked, Bad Life

Get it out of your head that wine’s just a drink. Real wine is like a missing human gene. It vaccinates you against mundanity, against bad life.

- D.B.C. Pierre

source: DBC Pierre (2011). “Lights Out in Wonderland: A Novel”, p.74, W. W. Norton & Company

topic: Real, Wine, Missing, Bad Life

The victim should have the right to end his life, if he wants. But I think it would be a great mistake. However bad life may seem, there is always something you can do, and succeed at. While there's life, there is hope.

- Stephen Hawking

source: "Feature: 'There's life, there's hope': Stephen Hawking", en.people.cn. June 14, 2006.

topic: Mistake, Thinking, Should Have, Bad Life

Time hath not yet so dried this blood of mine, Nor age so eat up my invention, Nor fortune made such havoc of my means, Nor my bad life reft me so much of friends, But they shall find awaked in such a kind Both strength of limb and policy of mind, Ability in means, and choice of friends, To quit me of them throughly.

- William Shakespeare

source: William Shakespeare, Thomas Price (1839). “The Wisdom and Genius of Shakespeare: Comprising Moral Philosophy, Delineations of Character, Paintings of Nature and the Passions, Seven Hundred Aphorisms, and Miscellaneous Pieces : with Select and Original Notes, and Scriptural References ...”, p.366

topic: Mean, Blood, Choices, Bad Life

Crime and bad lives are the measure of a State's failure, all crime in the end is the crime of the community.

- H. G. Wells

topic: Community, Literature, Crime, Bad Life, Committing Crimes

Dr. Armonson stitched up her wrist wounds. Withen 5 minutes of the transfusion he declared her out of danger. Chucking her under the chin, he said, "What are you doing here, honey? Your not even old enough to know how bad life gets." And it was then Cecelia gave orally what was to be her only form of suicide note, and a useless one at that, because she was going to live: "Obviously, Doctor," she said, "you've never been a 13 year old girl.

- Jeffrey Eugenides

topic: Girl, Suicide, Doctors, Bad Life, Virgin Suicides

All values are important, everyone who has ever touched my life in some way was a mentor for good or bad. Life is a blend, and a person is a blend of all the influences that have touched their lives.

- Colin Powell

topic: Mentor, Important, Way, Bad Life

I am just a middle-class farm boy from Dodge City and my grandparents were wheat farmers. I thought painting, acting, directing and photography were all part of being an artist. I have made my money that way. And I have had some fun. It's not been a bad life.

- Dennis Hopper