We Are All Of Us Lying In The Gutter

These are ultimately the people who find success in life.

We are all of us lying in the gutter.

The speaker is lord darlington variously described by othe. We are all in the gutter but some of us are looking at the stars. We are all just people living out a couple of years on a twirling rock that takes up only a fraction of space.

Darlington tells him we are all in the gutter but some of us are looking at the stars where you ve heard it. We all have our moments of weakness we all end up in a gutter from time to time. It takes on a quite a different meaning from the other answers when you look at it in context. One of my favorite quotes and the genesis for a satirical rewriting or perhaps i should say mis wording i uttered one night leaving a bar in san francicso.

The quote comes from lady windermere s fan a play oscar wilde wrote early on in his career. Inspirational optimism perception pessimism. We are all in the gutter but some of us are looking at the stars oscar wilde lady windermere s fan tags. We are all in the gutter means we all have our struggles hard times and life problems.

I bet the first line in the heading tipped you off as much as it did to me. A lie gets halfway around the world before the truth has a chance to get its pants on. Some of us were dealt better hands than others some of us dealt hands way worse. I was wondering why would oscar wilde say something like that.

Some of us are looking at the stars means that some rare humans despite the challenges we face decide to remain positive remain focused on our dreams and goals. I would hope we each will take the initiative and work on getting out of there as quickly as possible and trying to avoid going back there as best we can. You ve heard this from your freegan and or squatter friends and the pretenders quote this in their song message of love pretentious factor. And that we will seek help when we are having trouble on our own.

We are all in the gutter. We will all reach an inevitable demise but it is wholly and totally up to us what we do between the magical moment that we were brought into this earth and the end of our respective lives.