“The trick is not how much pain you feel--but how much joy you feel. Any idiot can feel pain. Life is full of excuses to feel pain, excuses not to live, excuses, excuses, excuses.”

“Once you had a good excuse, you opened the door to bad excuses.”

Terry Pratchett Thud!

“You will always have some excuse not to live your life.”

Chuck Palahniuk book Haunted

“Sometimes I wanted to believe something so badly, I deliberately manufactured excuses and ignored painful reality.”

Sylvia Day (1973) American writer

“You picked me up from school
You attended all my sporting functions
You bought me a car
Gave me use of a credit card
But how can I feel pain,
How can I feel pain,
How can I feel pain
When you're being so supportive?”

Bill Bailey (1965) English comedian, musician, actor, TV and radio presenter and author

“I swear it on Solin’s life. (Arik)
Uh, excuse me? (Solin)
I would, but there’s truly no excuse for you. (Arik)”

Sherrilyn Kenyon (1965) Novelist

“Ignorance of the law excuses no man; not that all men know the law, but because 'tis an excuse every man will plead, and no man can tell how to refute him.”

John Selden (1584–1654) English jurist and scholar of England's ancient laws and constitution, and of Jewish law

“Any excuse for non-performance, no matter how valid, weakens character.”

Spencer W. Kimball (1895–1985) President of The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints

“I know how you think you feel about me, you don't though. You just like me because I'm safe. There's no risk. And then you never have to try to have a real relationship because you can use me as an excuse.”

Cassandra Clare The Mortal Instruments

“It's a hard life sometimes and the biggest temptation is to let how hard it is be an excuse to weaken”

Walter Dean Myers book Scorpions