Life is a series of avoiding horrible situations until ultimately you're dead. That's how I feel about things.
Sentiment: NEGATIVE
When you've been in life-threatening situations, you become aware that life is not for ever.
Life is not what it's supposed to be. It's what it is. The way you cope with it is what makes the difference.
Horrible things happen all our lives; we all experience loss and death and trauma. Usually, most people, I think, we just get on with it. We don't have a whole soliloquy in the middle of something.
A lot of life is about trying to turn bad experiences into something good. Usually if you work at it, you can figure out a way to do it. Even our worst misfortunes are gifts.
No matter how bad things get you got to go on living, even if it kills you.
This is our world and we need the same things to survive. If I'm making my life better and the circumstances of your life worse, that's terrible because in the end it will affect me, too.
Life is not about dwelling on the bad.
Most of the time, I'm not scared. I get on with life, not because I'm a fatalist, but because that's the most congenial way of dealing with things. Indeed, most of the time, I'm not conscious of dealing with anything.
It's the way life is, I suppose. Whatever happens, you deal with it.
I think quite often a fate worse than death is life, for lots of people.