"Funerals are pretty compared to death."
– Blanche DuBois, A Streetcar Named Desire
"Sorrow makes for sincerity."
– Blanche DuBois, A Streetcar Named Desire
"Happiness is loving your enemies."
– Snoopy
"In the book of life, the answers aren't in the back."
– Charlie Brown
"It's hard on a face when it gets laughed in."
– Charlie Brown
"Security
is sleeping in the back seat of the car...When you're a little kid and
you've been somewhere with your mom and dad, and it's night, and you're
riding home in the car, you can sleep in the back seat. You don't have
to worry about anything...your mom and dad are in the front seat, and they
do all the worrying...They take care of everything...But it doesn't last!
Suddenly, you're grown up, and it can never be that way again! Suddenly,
it's over, and you'll never get to sleep in the back seat again! Never!"
– Charlie Brown
"Why can't we get all the people together in the world that we really like
and then just stay together? I guess that wouldn't work. Someone would leave.
Someone always leaves. Then we would have to say good-bye. I hate good-byes.
I know what I need. I need more hellos."
– Charles Schulz, Snoopy Come Home, Charlie Brown
"Life is like a blanket too short. You pull it up and your toes
rebel, you yank it down and shivers meander about your shoulder; but cheerful
folks manage to draw their knees up and pass a very comfortable night."
– Marion Howard
"No one should be forgotten. That is the promise of life."
– Allen Strange
"Whenever there is a meeting, a parting
is sure to follow. However, that parting need not last forever. Whether
a parting be forever or merely for a short time ... that is up to you."
– Happy Mask Salesman, Legend of Zelda, Majora's Mask
"The mind knows no limits when used properly.... No pencil is sharp
enough to draw as fine as you can think, and no paper large enough to
hold your imagination. In fact, it is only in the mind that we can conceive
infinity."
– The True Spirit of Adventure, Donald in Mathmagic Land
Linus: Life is difficult, isn't it, Charlie Brown?
Charlie Brown: Yes, it is. But I've
developed a new philosophy ... I only dread one day at a time!
Lucy: Phooey!
Linus: What's the matter?
Lucy: My life is a drag...I'm completely fed up..I've never felt so low in my life...
Linus: When you're in a mood like this you should try to think of
things you have to be thankful for...in other words, count your blessings.
Lucy: HA! That's a good one! I could
count my blessings on one finger! I've never had anything, and I never
will have anything! I don't get half the breaks that other people do...nothing
ever goes right for me! And you talk about counting blessings! You talk
about being thankful! What do I have to be thankful for!
Linus: Well, for one thing, you have a little brother who loves you...
...
Lucy: WAHH! *cries on Linus' shoulder
Linus: Every now and then I say the right thing.
George: So, my whole life, everything, all I get to keep are
thoughts and memories?
Rube: That's all we ever have, peanut.
Dead Like Me
"Wars use people's lives as mere playthings."
– Sally Po, Gundam Wing (dub)
Charlie Brown: Why would they ban Miss Sweetstory's book from the school library?
Linus: I can't believe it..I just can't believe it!
Charlie Brown: Maybe there are some things in her book that we don't understand...
Sally: In that case, they should also ban my math book!
Lucy: Do you realize how many great moments in life are wasted? Take, for instance, the great moment that is coming up right now...BANG! It's gone! You've just wasted it!
Charlie Brown: You're a lot of fun to be around.
"We all change when you think about it. We're all different all through
our lives. And that's okay, that's good. You've got to keeping moving. As
long as you remember all the people that you used to be. I will not forget
one line of this, not one day. I swear. I will always remember when the
Doctor was me."
– The Eleventh Doctor, Doctor Who, The Time of the Doctor