Andy Rooney Quotes

Towns oftener swamp one than carry one out onto the big ocean of life.

I think most people struggle over a matter of years to find a satisfying way to live.

Lyrically, I think I'm frustrated with this whole process of trying to figure out what I believe about the world and life. I don't like to adopt a sort of guiding philosophy.

You have to go through those mountains and valleys - because that's what life is: soul growth.

The biggest temptation I believe is to feel comfortable, to feel like you've worked through all of that here on Earth, and are satisfied with this life.

I never imagined my life would be the way that it has been for the past 30 years. I have had the best experiences a person can have-and the worst as well.

Everyone is handed adversity in life. No one's journey is easy. It's how they handle it that makes people unique.

Everybody's life has some mythical quality. You struggle against obstacles, you fight to get to a higher level and there are great loves.

And I went through a lot of detours and I took a lot of roads and things so yes, that's all there, but it's not meant to be shocking or telltale.

Now, you lose something in your life, or you come into a conflict, and there's gonna come a time that you're gonna know: There was a reason for that. And at the end of your life, all the things you thought were periods, they turn out to be commas. There was never a full stop in any of it.

I think life is about challenges. You have to face the challenge since your birth.

For me, growing up felt like a roller coaster ride at times, but looking back, I don't think that it was such a bad thing. It was all part of the excitement of being young.

I've been on shows that are very comedic and happy, and you really only get to see one side of my personality. They're not shows about my life or my music, or my struggle or anything like that. They're shows where you pretty much see me laughing and smiling all the time.

I think that when you're young, you carry the weight of the world on your shoulders. You're anxious; the world seems like a scary place. You don't know where you're going to fit in, what you're gonna do with your life - but actually, life has a way of sorting itself out, and universal law takes over.

I was an early peaker, and then I went through a depressive part of my life and had some struggles personally. Things don't always happen as you'd expect them to happen, but there's always a second act.

We all have our ups and our downs, and it's consistent throughout all of our lives. It's not a movie: you don't get to a point where, suddenly, you're free forever - it's life.

You can have ups and downs, and I know that as good as anybody because I've had them.

What's more interesting than the arc of lives?

The patience is in the living. Time opens out to you.

To live, to err, to fall, to triumph, to recreate life out of life.

Like everyone else, I was born naked and screaming, waiting for my life to write itself on my skin.

And the wind will whip your tousled hair, The sun, the rain, the sweet despair, Great tales of love and strife. And somewhere on your path to glory You will write your story of a life.

Everything I was I carry with me, everything I will belies waiting on the road ahead.

Life on earth is like college and we're all just trying to pass the courses.

I was a loser, most concerned with making a living. It took me 30 years to understand... I had to reinvent a system, find a way out, and set some rules that could work for me and a few others. I guess in the end that's what we all are trying to do.