Confront a corpse at least once. The absolute absence of life is the most disturbing and challenging confrontation you will ever have.

Go to Heaven for the climate, Hell for the company.

I expected to die. At no time before the trial did I expect to escape with my life. Yet being executed in the gas chamber did not necessarily mean defeat. It could be one more step to bring the community to a higher level of consciousness.

Dying is one of the few things that can be done as easily lying down.

Every parting gives a foretaste of death, every reunion a hint of the resurrection.

I suppose for a very long time I’ve been trying to understand how it is that people might make sense out of their lives and make meaning and make their lives meaningful in the face of the trouble that life brings.

The great quest of life has always been to discover truth.

Unbeing dead isn’t being alive.

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.

Life’s a fight. It’s a good fight of faith.

Life is so short. I would rather sing one song than interpret the thousand.

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.

I am become death, the destroyer of worlds.

There comes a time when people get tired of being pushed out of the glittering sunlight of life’s July and left standing amid the piercing chill of an alpine November.

It is not only the living who are killed in war.

When it’s your time, it is your time.

To not follow your passion in life is a recipe for failure and unhappiness.

Enthusiasm is the most important thing in life.

I have rules for a lot of areas of my life. Love is not going to be one of them.

Happiness is a ball after which we run wherever it rolls, and we push it with our feet when it stops.

Our greatest happiness does not depend on the condition of life in which chance has placed us, but is always the result of a good conscience, good health, occupation, and freedom in all just pursuits.

Wisdom is nothing but a preparation of the soul, a capacity, a secret art of thinking, feeling and breathing thoughts of unity at every moment of life.

Obedience to God is the pathway to the life you really want to live.

You are going to let the fear of poverty govern you life and your reward will be that you will eat, but you will not live.

Violent men have not been known in history to die to a man. They die up to a point.

We want to answer this classical question, who am I? So I think that most of our works are for art, or whatever we do, including science or religion, tried to answer that question.

The world is very different now. For man holds in his mortal hands the power to abolish all forms of human poverty, and all forms of human life.

What sweetness is left in life, if you take away friendship? Robbing life of friendship is like robbing the world of the sun. A true friend is more to be esteemed than kinsfolk.

The way to know life is to love many things.

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.

A part of me has become immortal, out of my control.

Heaven is dumb, echoing only the dumb.

It’s impossible to live a life totally free of feelings. God created all of us to be emotional creatures, and feelings are a big part of our lives.

Life is grim, and we don’t have to be grim all the time.

Of life’s two chief prizes, beauty and truth, I found the first in a loving heart and the second in a laborer’s hand.

I am not made for politics because I am incapable of wanting or accepting the death of the adversary.

In war, you can only be killed once, but in politics, many times.

A life spent making mistakes is not only more honorable, but more useful than a life spent doing nothing.

Men can only be happy when they do not assume that the object of life is happiness.

Life is hard. After all, it kills you.

Old age is just a record of one’s whole life.

War is war. The only good human being is a dead one.

The call of death is a call of love. Death can be sweet if we answer it in the affirmative, if we accept it as one of the great eternal forms of life and transformation.

What can I know? What ought I to do? What can I hope?

My personal telephone book is a book of the dead now. I’m so old. Almost all of my friends have died, and I don’t have the guts to take their names out of the book.

The first forty years of life give us the text; the next thirty supply the commentary on it.

One who does not know when to die, does not know how to live.

My life is real.

I draw pleasure in governance, in doing new things and bringing people together. That pleasure is all I need from life.

Life is nothing but a competition to be the criminal rather than the victim.

Thou know’st the first time that we smell the air we wawl and cry. When we are born we cry, that we are come to this great state of fools.

Death, like birth, is a secret of Nature.

You must understand the whole of life, not just one little part of it. That is why you must read, that is why you must look at the skies, that is why you must sing and dance, and write poems and suffer and understand, for all that is life.

In a way, the whole tangible universe itself is a vast residue, a skeleton of countless lives that have germinated in it and have left it, leaving behind them only a trifling, infinitesimal part of their riches.

As far as I’m concerned, I’m a writer who’s writing books, and therefore, I don’t want to die. You’d miss the end of the book wouldn’t you? You can’t die with an unfinished book.

Those who hope for no other life are dead even for this.

Nobody can write the life of a man but those who have eat and drunk and lived in social intercourse with him.

Death and life have their determined appointments; riches and honors depend upon heaven.

Because I could not stop for death, He kindly stopped for me; The carriage held but just ourselves and immortality.

This industry has been really good to me. It’s been a great life. I’m not through yet. I’m ready when you are, Mr. DeMille.

My life is not unlike Truman’s. I can’t go anywhere.