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Bill Watterson quotes about life
Reality continues to ruin my life.
— Bill Watterson, The Complete Calvin and Hobbes
I’m killing time while I wait for life to shower me with meaning and happiness.
— Bill Watterson
When life gives you lemons, chunk it right back.
— Bill Watterson
CALVIN:This whole Santa Claus thing just doesn’t make sense. Why all the secrecy? Why all the mystery?If the guy exists why doesn’t he ever show himself and prove it?And if he doesn’t exist what’s the meaning of all this?HOBBES:I dunno. Isn’t this a religious holiday? CALVIN:Yeah, but actually, I’ve got the same questions about God.
— Bill Watterson
Hobbes: Do you think there’s a God?Calvin: Well, somebody’s out to get me!
— Bill Watterson
If you can’t control your peanut butter, you can’t expect to control your life.
— Bill Watterson, The Authoritative Calvin and Hobbes: A Calvin and Hobbes Treasury
CALVIN:When I grow up I want to be an inventor. First I will invent a time machine. Then I’ll come back to yesterday and take myself to tomorrow and skip this dumb assignment.
— Bill Watterson
CALVIN:As usual goodness hardly puts up a fight.
— Bill Watterson
To invent your own life’s meaning is not easy, but it’s still allowed, and I think you’ll be happier for the trouble.
— Bill Watterson
In the short term, it would make me happy to go play outside. In the long term, it would make me happier to do well at school and become successful. But in the VERY long term, I know which will make better memories.
— Bill Watterson, It’s a Magical World: A Calvin and Hobbes Collection
HOBBES:Virtue needs some cheaper thrills.
— Bill Watterson
Isn’t it sad how some people’s grip on their lives is so precarious that they’ll embrace any preposterous delusion rather than face an occasional bleak truth?
— Bill Watterson, The Complete Calvin and Hobbes
HOBBES:If you don’t get a goodnight kiss you get Kafka dreams.
— Bill Watterson
We’re so busy watching out for what’s just ahead of us that we don’t take time to enjoy where we are.
— Bill Watterson
If good things lasted forever, would we appreciate how precious they are?
— Bill Watterson, It’s a Magical World: A Calvin and Hobbes Collection
They say the world is a stage. But obviously the play is unrehearsed and everybody is ad-libbing his lines.””Maybe that’s why it’s hard to tell if we’re living in a tragedy or a farce.””We need more special effects and dance numbers.
— Bill Watterson
Calvin: As you can see, I have memorized this utterly useless piece of information long enough to pass a test question. I now intend to forget it forever. You’ve taught me nothing except how to cynically manipulate the system. Congratulations.
— Bill Watterson, Calvin and Hobbes