“Life would be tragic if it weren't funny.”
Stephen Hawking (1942–2018) British theoretical physicist, cosmologist, and author
As quoted in "The Science of Second-Guessing", The New York Times (12 December 2004)
“If my life wasn't funny it would just be true, and that is unacceptable.”
— Carrie Fisher, book Wishful Drinking
Variant: If my life wasn’t funny it would just be true, and that is unacceptable.
Source: From her 2008 memoir Wishful Drinking
Context: I have to start by telling you that my entire existence can be summed up in one phrase. And that is: If my life wasn't funny it would just be true, and that is unacceptable.
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Ann Richards (1933–2006) American politician
Source: [Rick, Lyman, http://www.nytimes.com/2006/09/14/us/14richards.html?hp&ex=1158292800&en=22b04a312a2fd14f&ei=5094&partner=homepage, Ann Richards, Plain-Spoken Texas Governor Who Aided Minorities, Dies at 73, New York Times, September 14, 2006, 2006-09-16]
“Jung believed there was a large pattern to life, that it wasn't just chaos.”
Sting (1951) English musician
On the song Synchronicity II, as quoted in "Official Police business" by Jay Cocks, in TIME magazine (15 August 1983), p. 50
Context: Jung believed there was a large pattern to life, that it wasn't just chaos. Our song Synchronicity II is about two parallel events that aren't connected logically or causally, but symbolically.
“It wasn't my day. My week. My month. My year. My life. God damn it.”
Charles Bukowski book Pulp
Variant: It wasn’t my day. My week. My month. My year. My life. God damn it.
Source: Pulp
David Miscavige (1960) leader of the Church of Scientology
Stacy Young, former secretary to Miscavige, interviewed in — [Inside the Cult, The Big Story, ITV, 1995].
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“Funny, how just when you think life can’t possibly get any worse it suddenly does.”
Douglas Adams (1952–2001) English writer and humorist
“When I was twenty, I chose my life. It wasn't this one.”
Lois McMaster Bujold Vorkosigan Saga
Vorkosigan Saga, A Civil Campaign (1999)
Nicholas Sparks book The Longest Ride
Variant: If we'd never met, I think I would have known my life wasn't complete. And I would have wandered the world in search of you, even if I didn't know who I was looking for.
Source: The Longest Ride