来源：清谈天地 www.talkskyland.comGeneral clichés

Fun is good

Always look on the bright sight of life

To be or not to be

Live and learn

Live and let live

Must I live my days in these concrete ways

C’est la vie

Shit happens

Que sera, sera

Life is life

What goes around comes around

Life is what happens while you’re busy making other plans

Life is messy

Don’t worry, be happy !

Today is the first day of the rest of your life

Love comes around while doing things you like

Laughter is the best medicine

Same shit, different day

Smile. It makes people wonder

Carpe diem

 

For when you feel really bad

 

There is harmony in disharmony

Behind the clouds, the sun is shining

It could be worse

It will be worse

Feeling bad is just a new sensation

Tomorrow is another day

I will survive

Every cloud has a silver lining

There is a light at the end of the tunnel

After the rain comes a rainbow

It’s always darkest before the dawn

It has to get worse, before it gets better

Every rose has its thorn

Midnight is where the day begins

Cheer up, it’s not the end of the world

This too, shall pass

Life’s not so bad, when you consider the alternative

The sharper is the berry, the sweeter is the wine

 

For when you are waiting, just waiting for something to happen

 

All good things come to those that wait

Zero is sometimes better than nothing

Time is a cure

Give space to time, and time will fill space

One day I will wake up, and it will all fit together

Time will tell

This is a process of eliminating options

The waiting is the hardest part

Waiting always lasts long

Some day my ship will come in

No news is good news

 

For when you are looking for something and you don’t know for what

 

Secrets are secret

It keeps me from the street

Life is so short, I want to experience as much as possible

Everything is vanity

The more things change, the more they stay the same

 

For when you are looking for truth

 

La verité est toujours l’idée de tout le monde

Wisdom is not truth

There are lies, damned lies and statistics

Truth is nothing but a feeling that something is true

Who cares about reasoning anyway

Truth is relative

There is no comfort in the truth

The truth is just as meaningful as the lie

 

For when you can not make a decision

 

When in doubt, consult your inner child

If it doesn’t come naturally, leave it

Making a decision is easy: when the difference is big you know what to choose, and when the difference is small, it does not really matter what you chose

Making a bad decision is better than making no decision at all

Importance is always relative

Indecision is the key to flexibility

 

For when there is too much work

 

There will come a day when all the work is finished or when it is too late to finish it

Most of the work is being done to counter the effects of other people’s work: when we all agree to work half as much, the total result would be the same.

Most people don’t even know why they feel they have to work

When the work is done, I will have time for myself

The world goes to shit when I don’t do this first

You get nothing for free

Poor planning on your part does not create an emergency on my part

Hurry when you have time, then you’ll have time when you are in a hurry

I always complained because my work was being interupted – until I realised the interuptions were my work.

Haste makes waste

If you had time to do it twice, you had time to do it right the first time

 

For when life is hard

 

It would not be fun when life is so easy

It is a good experience, it makes me stronger

I take the challenge

Life is hard

Life sucks, and then you die…

Life is not hard, it only needs some positive thinking

Life is a bitch

Of course life is hard, that’s why they pay you the big bucks

Such is life, and it’s getting sucher and sucher

La via esta duro, amigo

Life is unfair

Life is a series of disappointments, followed by death

I used to think I had it bad because I had no shoes, then I met a man with no feet

Most of the mountains we have in life are ones we build ourselves.

When God gives you lemons, make lemonade

 

For when someone broke your heart

 

There will be another one

At least it was a very interesting experience

He/she will be sorry

He/she wasn’t worth it anyway

I am better off alone

I love being free, it’s the best way to be

There are plenty more fish in the sea

Love hurts

One lost, ten found

It is better to have loved and lost than to never have loved at all

All is fair in love and war

 

For when you feel like a loser

 

If you can’t beat them, join them

Winners need their losers

I am playing my own game

I am not one of those

My time will come

The first will be the last

Never forget that you are unique, just like everybody else

You can win by not losing

The meek shall inherit the earth

Maybe I am a loser, but at least no one knows

Winning is about power, not about the quality of your weapons

You are a loser only when you fail to try

The brick that the builder once rejected in the long run becomes the chief corner stone

 

For when you think you are ugly

 

It is the inside that really matters

Beauty is a matter of taste

Popularity (admiration) is not love

I have other qualities

Beauty is only skin deep

Beauty is in the eye of the beholder

You can’t tell a book by its outside cover

Beauty is only a lightswitch away

I’m not ugly, I’m visually challenging

I don’t give a ****! Your the one who has to look at me!!

 

For when you are in pain

 

No pain, no gain

Pain is resistance

Better feeling pain than feeling nothing at all

If it doesn’t kill me, it makes me stronger

Pain is nature’s way of telling you that you are still alive

Pain is weakness leaving the body

Pain is no protection against more pain

It’ll feel better when it stops hurting

 

For when you feel lonely

 

We are all alone

At least I do not have to count with someone else

It is my life

There are no words for emptiness

Everyone might hate me, but still I am alive

With visions of redemption, I walk against the crowd

If you can’t enjoy your company, how could anyone else?

 

For when you are afraid

 

It’s only fear that makes you run

It’s only fear that makes you stay

No guts, no glory

I have to face my fear

Better afraid than blind to my fears

If you always do what you always have done, you’ll only have what you have now

There is nothing to fear but fear itself

 

For when you have done something really stupid

 

I just followed my intuition

It will be good for something

I am trying to escape from something, I think that I am just not ready to face it

I am looking for something, this is my way to find it

I always do things like this

Sorry, I did not mean to hurt you

Nobody is perfect

It happens to the best

I can’t change the past

Well, at least I know that I am capable of… (beating wife, getting drunk, etc.).

…but my intention was good

It is my mess, and finally I got something for myself

If nothing else, I can always serve as a bad example

I’m only human

The devil made me do it

Doing stupid things is my way of making my life interesting

Everybody has the right to make mistakes

Tomorrow, no one will remember

It seemed like a good idea at the time

The one who makes no mistakes does none of the work

 

For when something terrible has happened to you

 

I guess I just have to accept it

Everything is relative

Life goes on

I always knew that this could happen

It probably prevented something worse happening

Sometimes you get the bear….and sometimes the bear gets you

Worse things happen at sea

When it rains, it pours

When the pony dies, the ride is over

There must be a reason

 

For when you are trying very hard and not having any success

 

One step at a time

You can’t have it all

When at first you don’t succeed, try try again

When the going gets tough, the tough gets going

Rome was not built in one day

When you are not strong, you must be smart

If at first you don’t succeed, destroy all evidence that suggests you tried

The road to success is always under construction

If all else fails, manipulate the data

If you can’t dazzle them with your brilliance, baffle them with your bullshit

If at first you don’t succeed, redefine success

 

For when you have to say goodbye

 

Goodbye is not an easy word to say

Partir, c’est mourir un peu

Have a nice life

You’ll find your way to heaven, I’ll meet you when you are there

I will always remember you

Parting is such sweet sorrow

The sun in your eyes made some of the lies worth believing

 

For when you are dead

 

Mourir, c’est partir un peu

Well, at least I tried

I guess that was it

Next time better

I did it my way

Death is just a part of life… the last part

It’s a new life every day

Death is a gateway that leads to new life

You see? I told you I was sick!

 

Clichés on clichés

 

Clichés: each of them makes something easier, but all of them together make things very complicated

No one owns clichés

Clichés are never new

Clichés sound better in a foreign language

A cliché just describes the feeling or the pretended feeling, it does not change it

There is truth in every cliché

Avoid cliches like the plague