Mason Cooley Life Quotations

The suburbs: signs of life, but no proofs.

The Simple Life is not a simple life.

Dutch painting: daily life is enough.

Early every morning an old woman goes to the market to curse a grocery clerk, who curses back.

Blackmail is one of the great pastimes of family life.

Old age learns about less after a lifetime of more.

Old age likes indecency. It's a sign of life.

Which is the supplement? Fantasy or daily routine?

The life of pleasure breeds boredom. The life of duty breeds resentment.

Reading civilized the inner life.

Life just keeps unfolding, ignoring our praise or blame.

Life is the risk we cannot refuse.

A goldfish is reason enough for living, if someone needs a reason.

I really like life, don't you? There's nothing else quite like it.

Life is used up all the same, whether we save, spend, or waste it.

Somehow the body keeps life going despite the ravaging negations of the mind.

The Insignificance of Man is a congenial theme; my own insignificance is a sore point.

Vicarious living is only slightly less impossible than vicarious eating.

Life is what it makes you.

Awakening in the morning returns us to life, and to awareness of death.

Life is struggle and sleep.

The imaginary audience for my life is growing small and silent.

Life is always rich, thought only occasionally so.

The routines of tourism are even more monotonous than those of daily life.

Death is frightening, and so is Eternal Life.

Once wealth and beauty are gone, there is always rural life.

Stupidity is a fact of life, but unmentionable. The new Prudery.

Regret for wasted time is more wasted time

Only the broken-hearted know the truth about love.

Cure for an obsession: get another one.

Why not - is a slogan for an interesting life.