Doug Stanhope Quotes

Do not take life too seriously. You will never get out of it alive.

Cast a cold eye on life, on death Horseman pass by

Taking life seriously requires taking death seriously.

But pain seems to me an insufficient reason not to embrace life. Being dead is quite painless. Pain, like time, is going to come on regardless. Question is, what glorious moments can you win from life in addition to the pain?

Life is nothing unless death has been faced down.

Life deserves laughter, hence people laugh at it.

If one was to think constantly of death, the business of life would stand still

Because death and illness are the most horrible things in life, of course that's where the most absurdly funny things are going to happen.

We are supposed to enjoy the good stuff now, while we can, with the people we love. Life has a funny way of teaching us that lesson over and over again.

Don't kid yourself that you're going to live again after you're dead; you're not. Make the most of the one life you've got. Live it to the full.

I guess what I always found funny was the human condition.

Life continues, irrespective of whether we are there or not.

Remember that life is short and death is long.

One must laugh before one is happy, or one may die without ever laughing at all.

The game of life is good, though all of life may be hurt, and though all lives lose the game in the end.

They didn't know why these things were funny. Sometimes you laugh because you've got no more room for crying. Sometimes you laugh because table manners on a beach are funny. And sometimes you laugh because you're alive, when you really shouldn't be.

As long as one suffers one lives.

Quotes about Life Tell me not, in mournful numbers, Life is but an empty dream! For the soul is dead that slumbers, and things are not what they seem. Life is real! Life is earnest! And the grave is not its goal; Dust thou art; to dust returnest, Was not spoken of the soul.

It is the peculiar nature of the world to go on spinning no matter what sort of heartbreak is happening.

Let's learn to live, for we must die alone.

The shortness of life cannot dissuade us from its pleasures, nor console us for its pains.

We who think we are about to die will laugh at anything.

We are here just for a spell and then pass on. So get a few laughs and do the best you can. Live your life so that whenever you lose it, you are ahead.

We're all worm bait waiting to happen. It's what you do while you wait that matters.

It is the very joy of this earthly life to think that it will come to an end.