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

The marvelous richness of human experience would lose something of rewarding joy if there were no limitations to overcome. The hilltop hour would not be half so wonderful if there were no dark valleys to traverse.

Life is far too important a thing ever to talk seriously about.

My life is the road, man. I need to keep moving.

Modern science says: ‚The sun is the past, the earth is the present, the moon is the future.‘ From an incandescent mass we have originated, and into a frozen mass we shall turn. Merciless is the law of nature, and rapidly and irresistibly we are drawn to our doom.

It is impossible to live without failing at something, unless you live so cautiously that you might as well not have lived at all, in which case you have failed by default.

I pledge allegiance to the Christian flag, and to the Savior, for whose Kingdom it stands, one Savior, crucified, risen, and coming again, with life and liberty for all who believe.

Most people get a fair amount of fun out of their lives, but on balance life is suffering, and only the very young or the very foolish imagine otherwise.

The life which men praise and regard as successful is but one kind. Why should we exaggerate any one kind at the expense of the others?

To the wise, life is a problem; to the fool, a solution.

Jesus lived a life that was full of joy and contradictions and fights, you know? If they were to paint a picture of Jesus without contradictions, the gospels would be fake, but the contradictions are a sign of authenticity.

We are doomed to cling to a life even while we find it unendurable.

At any street corner the feeling of absurdity can strike any man in the face.

I no longer feel attracted to the well-made novel. I want to write the story that will zero in and give you intense, but not connected, moments of experience. I guess that’s the way I see life. People remake themselves bit by bit and do things they don’t understand.

The feeling about a soldier is, when all is said and done, he wasn’t really going to do very much with his life anyway. The example usually is: he wasn’t going to compose Beethoven’s Fifth.

The basic fact about human existence is not that it is a tragedy, but that it is a bore. It is not so much a war as an endless standing in line.

Tomorrow is the most important thing in life. Comes into us at midnight very clean. It’s perfect when it arrives and it puts itself in our hands. It hopes we’ve learned something from yesterday.

Life begins on the other side of despair.

I mean… in life… what relationship is easy?

There are people in the world who have skills and strength and talent that I will never have. Never. These notions that you can ‚be whatever you want to be as long as you want it bad enough‘ are not true. They are fairy tales.

Life is thickly sown with thorns, and I know no other remedy than to pass quickly through them. The longer we dwell on our misfortunes, the greater is their power to harm us.

I don’t know where I’m going from here, but I promise it won’t be boring.

Life is better than death, I believe, if only because it is less boring, and because it has fresh peaches in it.

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

If you have the opportunity to play this game of life you need to appreciate every moment. A lot of people don’t appreciate the moment until it’s passed.

There is, indeed, nothing that so much seduces reason from vigilance, as the thought of passing life with an amiable woman.

I think governments can’t do much.

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

A professor must have a theory as a dog must have fleas.

Miracles, in the sense of phenomena we cannot explain, surround us on every hand: life itself is the miracle of miracles.

Sooner or later, I hate to break it to you, you’re gonna die, so how do you fill in the space between here and there? It’s yours. Seize your space.

After your death you will be what you were before your birth.

See how many are better off than you are, but consider how many are worse.

In praise there is more obtrusiveness than in blame.

Sleep is the interest we have to pay on the capital which is called in at death; and the higher the rate of interest and the more regularly it is paid, the further the date of redemption is postponed.

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

Everybody’s youth is a dream, a form of chemical madness.

It is as natural to die as to be born; and to a little infant, perhaps, the one is as painful as the other.

Everything is political. I will never be a politician or even think political. Me just deal with life and nature. That is the greatest thing to me.

I just have an enthusiasm for life.

It is foolish and wrong to mourn the men who died. Rather we should thank God that such men lived.

You cannot find peace by avoiding life.

Hell is a half-filled auditorium.

Life is not living in the suburbs with a white picket fence. That’s not life. Somehow our American culture has made it out that that’s what life needs to be – and that if it’s not that, it’s all screwed up. It’s not.

What an ugly beast the ape, and how like us.

When we remember we are all mad, the mysteries disappear and life stands explained.

We are born, so to speak, twice over; born into existence, and born into life; born a human being, and born a man.

Don’t compare yourself with other people; compare yourself with who you were yesterday.

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

The greatest mistake you can make in life is continually fearing that you’ll make one.

The price of anything is the amount of life you exchange for it.

When a team takes ownership of its problems, the problem gets solved. It is true on the battlefield, it is true in business, and it is true in life.

For me life is continuously being hungry. The meaning of life is not simply to exist, to survive, but to move ahead, to go up, to achieve, to conquer.

For if there is a sin against life, it consists perhaps not so much in despairing of life as in hoping for another life and in eluding the implacable grandeur of this life.

It’s not morbid to talk about death. Most people don’t worry about death, they worry about a bad death.

The innocence of childhood is like the innocence of a lot of animals.

Death, like birth, is a secret of Nature.

There is no wealth but life.

Life isn’t about finding yourself. Life is about creating yourself.

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.

Writers are a little below clowns and a little above trained seals.