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1. Synonym of such is life.
   • The end brings a beginning. As a walk begins, so it ends, often on some obscure shore. But we do not walk to reach the end. Rather we walk today to feel the sting of the highway, the cold of the morning, the heat of the sun, and the disquiet and ecstasies of the wind on our bodies, our minds, and our souls. And so is life. We are here now to feel all that and more—and then the door closes. 2007, Michael Metras, Walking Life: Meditations on the Pilgrimage of Life, page 50:
   • He just didn't give a fuck about anything, and that's when I met Arron. I should never have gone there, he was trouble from the start, but you really don't see it when you're in it, You think its love, but really it was stupidity on my part. We were together about a year and you know the rest, it didn't end too good. But so is life. 2012, Georgina Campbell, The Kickdown Girls, page 102:
   • I begged my mother to write notes excusing me from taking the gym classes. She used to get upset at me. I don't know when she realized the reason why I was acting the way I was but she did. She wrote a long letter to the gym teacher and explained my problem. They made an exception and I was excused from having to partake in gym. To this day, even in my prime, I couldn't do a summersault or cart wheel. Oh well, so is life. 2013, Brenda Sue, Jack and Jill, Not an Easy Climb:
   • Life is not like an oil painting, which can be rubbed out and done over time and again until the artist is satisfied. With the sumiye painting any brush-strokes painted over a second time results in a smudge; the life has left it. All corrections show when the ink dries. So is life. 2013, Osvald Sirén, The Chinese on the Art of Painting:
2. Used other than figuratively or idiomatically: see so, is, life. i.e. life is, as well; life is (something) too.
   • It may be that the realistic story is commonplace, but so is life, and the realistic tale is true. 1894, Current Opinion, volume 15, page 210:
   • If there is one who knows, I know more than he, and if there is one who ignores it, even more than he I ignore it. My life is a fight between this knowing and this ignorance and so is his life and so is life. 2000, Time and Space: A Poetic Autobiography, page 55:
   • If it has respected me so far, I don 't see why it would decide to consume me now, when all my body has to offer are weakened bones and sagging flesh. Malaria can be fatal in the long run, I know. Well, so is life. 2007, Enrique de Hériz, Lies, page 7:
   • We can come across the hill and die from anything, anything can happen and often does, and we must be prepared for that. Nothing, nobody is permanent, and everything will change. Death is inevitable, but so is life. 2016, Abraham Pedro, Peyote: The Divine Flower of Life, page 115:

Synonyms

such is life