Boomhauer: Man I tell you what Hank, about that dang ol' meaning of life man, it's like this man: It's like butterfly flapping his wings, and gon' cause a tree fall. Ain't nobody see it nobody don't doesn't even happen. Baby's born into this world, ain't no goddamn friends. Find out all about let alone evil's about. Or like a dang ol' candle in the wind. It don't matter man. Now I think therefore you are, man. It's like you born into this world man, just like dust in the wind. You don't even know man.

Hank: ... well, that's what we tell ourselves isn't it.

It's what it's.

Just so you can enjoy some technically correct English

I used to tease my SO for saying "it is what it is." I'd look back at her and ask "what is it?" and she'd say "what it is." And I'd nod and carry on. Eventually she stopped saying it.

Instead of "it is what it is" try saying "The Tao that can be trodden is not the enduring and unchanging Tao."

"It was what it was"

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Thought-terminating cliche. I just wanted to write those 3 words because I'm so proud it's one of very few facts I have in my brain & is easily retrievable without any research or strain.

C'est la vie

Or, When you've lived and laughed so much you forgot how to love

wouldn't it be the person saying it that gets punched?

Well, we are where we are

It is what it i- machinegun noises

Is this Meow Gosling?

I prefer "it will or it won't" for those questions of things which are out of our control.

"Meh"

Kas buvo tas pražuvo.

We are where we are