Between us and heaven or hell there is only life, which is the frailest thing in the world.

It is a mania shared by philosophers of all ages to deny what exists and to explain what does not exist.

We all live with the objective of being happy; our lives are all different and yet the same.

The courage of life is often a less dramatic spectacle than the courage of a final moment; but it is no less a magnificent mixture of triumph and tragedy.

One is still what one is going to cease to be and already what one is going to become. One lives one’s death, one dies one’s life.

While there’s life, there’s hope.

If a man had more than one life, I think a little hanging would not hurt this one; but after he is once dead, we cannot bring him back, no matter how sorry we may be; so the boy shall be pardoned.

What springs from earth dissolves to earth again, and heaven-born things fly to their native seat.

If you love life, don’t waste time, for time is what life is made up of.

A well-written life is almost as rare as a well-spent one.

The best thing to hold onto in life is each other.

Many people would sooner die than think; in fact, they do so.

Life is abundant, and life is beautiful. And it’s a good place that we’re all in, you know, on this earth, if we take care of it.

Man is an exception, whatever else he is. If he is not the image of God, then he is a disease of the dust. If it is not true that a divine being fell, then we can only say that one of the animals went entirely off its head.

The Indian Summer of life should be a little sunny and a little sad, like the season, and infinite in wealth and depth of tone, but never hustled.

Most of our lives aren’t that exciting, but the drama is still going on in the small details.

If you lose a big fight, it will worry you all of your life. It will plague you – until you get your revenge.

God will prepare everything for our perfect happiness in heaven, and if it takes my dog being there, I believe he’ll be there.

Death is a commingling of eternity with time; in the death of a good man, eternity is seen looking through time.

My days, my years, my life has seen up and downs, lights and darknesses. If I wrote only and continually of the ‚light‘ and never mentioned the other, then as an artist, I would be a liar.

If you stop struggling, then you stop life.

I think Bible principles are principles for life.

Our life is what our thoughts make it.

The life of the dead is placed in the memory of the living.

There is no doubt that life is given us, not to be enjoyed, but to be overcome; to be got over.

The measure of a life, after all, is not its duration, but its donation.

We love life, not because we are used to living but because we are used to loving.

The experience of democracy is like the experience of life itself-always changing, infinite in its variety, sometimes turbulent and all the more valuable for having been tested by adversity.

One of the most basic factors in sports is that winning becomes a habit, and losing is the same way. When failure starts to feel normal in your life or your work or even your darkest vices, you won’t have to go looking for trouble, because trouble will find you. Count on it.

Most people would sooner die than think; in fact, they do so.

First and foremost comes my family and my life with Brad. We have so much joy in raising our children and teaching them about the world that nothing really compares to that.

Life affords no higher pleasure than that of surmounting difficulties, passing from one step of success to another, forming new wishes and seeing them gratified.

The happiness of this life depends less on what befalls you than the way in which you take it.

I just have an enthusiasm for life.

When we are born we cry that we are come to this great stage of fools.

Fantasy is a necessary ingredient in living, it’s a way of looking at life through the wrong end of a telescope, and that enables you to laugh at life’s realities.

I never felt settled or calm. You can’t really commit to life when you feel that.

Death is the wish of some, the relief of many, and the end of all.

One should take good care not to grow too wise for so great a pleasure of life as laughter.

Judgments, value judgments concerning life, for or against, can in the last resort never be true: they possess value only as symptoms, they come into consideration only as symptoms – in themselves such judgments are stupidities.

We may be surprised at the people we find in heaven. God has a soft spot for sinners. His standards are quite low.

I may not have gone where I intended to go, but I think I have ended up where I intended to be.

You cannot find peace by avoiding life.

Life is not a spectator sport. If you’re going to spend your whole life in the grandstand just watching what goes on, in my opinion you’re wasting your life.

Life cannot subsist in society but by reciprocal concessions.

The unnatural, that too is natural.

To live outside the law, you must be honest.

It’s pretty intense writing about my own life, my own struggles.

As I approached my 95th birthday, I was burdened to write a book that addressed the epidemic of ‚easy believism.‘ There is a mindset today that if people believe in God and do good works, they are going to Heaven.

Where there is love there is life.

The truth is I love being alive. And I love feeling free. So if I can’t have those things then I feel like a caged animal and I’d rather not be in a cage. I’d rather be dead. And it’s real simple. And I think it’s not that uncommon.

Life is tragic. You are tiny and flawed and ignorant and weak, and everything else is huge, complex, and overwhelming.

This soul, or life within us, by no means agrees with the life outside us. If one has the courage to ask her what she thinks, she is always saying the very opposite to what other people say.

I have a feeling that I make a very good friend, and I’m a good mother, and a good sister, and a good citizen. I am involved in life itself – all of it. And I have a lot of energy and a lot of nerve.

I have always reckoned the dignity of the republic of first importance and preferable to life.

Millions of people die every day. Everyone’s got to go sometime.

While democracy in the long run is the most stable form of government, in the short run, it is among the most fragile.

The man who has no problems is out of the game.

Life is like riding a bicycle. To keep your balance, you must keep moving.

To the well-organized mind, death is but the next great adventure.

Respect is one of life’s greatest treasures. I mean, what does it all add up to if you don’t have that?