Searching is half the fun: life is much more manageable when thought of as a scavenger hunt as opposed to a surprise party.

The only way to take sorrow out of death is to take love out of life.

Life is made of ever so many partings welded together.

Everywhere in life, the true question is not what we gain, but what we do.

Life, if well lived, is long enough.

Without pain, there would be no suffering, without suffering we would never learn from our mistakes. To make it right, pain and suffering is the key to all windows, without it, there is no way of life.

Believe that life is worth living and your belief will help create the fact.

It all went wrong with football, the thing I loved most of all, and from there, my life slowly fell apart.

All women do have a different sense of sexuality, or sense of fun, or sense of like what’s sexy or cool or tough.

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.

I am 55 years old now. It takes three years to write one book. I don’t know how many books I will be able to write before I die. It is like a countdown. So with each book I am praying – please let me live until I am finished.

We conceal it from ourselves in vain – we must always love something. In those matters seemingly removed from love, the feeling is secretly to be found, and man cannot possibly live for a moment without it.

When we talk about mortality, we are talking about our children.

Most of the time I don’t have much fun. The rest of the time I don’t have any fun at all.

I love to go to the zoo. But not on Sunday. I don’t like to see the people making fun of the animals, when it should be the other way around.

What do you want a meaning for? Life is a desire, not a meaning.

From the middle of life onward, only he remains vitally alive who is ready to die with life.

The God who gave us life, gave us liberty at the same time.

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.

Love, we say, is life; but love without hope and faith is agonizing death.

You get one life. I’m going to embrace mine.

The secret of success in life is for a man to be ready for his opportunity when it comes.

My life has been long, and believing that life loves the liver of it, I have dared to try many things, sometimes trembling, but daring still.

All my life affection has been showered upon me, and every forward step I have made has been taken in spite of it.

Basically, when you get to my age, you’ll really measure your success in life by how many of the people you want to have love you actually do love you.

There is but one truly serious philosophical problem and that is suicide.

There is always a present and extant life, be it better or worse, which all combine to uphold.

What is my life if I am no longer useful to others.

What a great day for football, all we need is some green grass and a ball.

This is the highest wisdom that I own; freedom and life are earned by those alone who conquer them each day anew.

Without work, all life goes rotten. But when work is soulless, life stifles and dies.

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

A useless life is an early death.

Except during the nine months before he draws his first breath, no man manages his affairs as well as a tree does.

Among the many values in life, I appreciate freedom most.

Death is not the worst that can happen to men.

No man enjoys the true taste of life, but he who is ready and willing to quit it.

They are resilient children, but they are children, and as much as they need help to understand the hard truths in life, they also need what we all need – protection and love.

Death is no more than passing from one room into another. But there’s a difference for me, you know. Because in that other room I shall be able to see.

Don’t part with your illusions. When they are gone, you may still exist, but you have ceased to live.

Nothing in life is so exhilarating as to be shot at without result.

I have lived long enough to satisfy both nature and glory.

My favorite things in life don’t cost any money. It’s really clear that the most precious resource we all have is time.

We think that life develops spontaneously on Earth, so it must be possible for life to develop on suitable planets elsewhere in the universe. But we don’t know the probability that a planet develops life.

Life is not accumulation, it is about contribution.

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.

What we live by we die by.

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

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.

We all die, we all get sick, we all feel hunger and lust and pain, and therefore human life is consistent from one generation to the other. We all – most of us, anyway – want connections with other people and spend our lives looking for them.

Life is a gamble. You can get hurt, but people die in plane crashes, lose their arms and legs in car accidents; people die every day. Same with fighters: some die, some get hurt, some go on. You just don’t let yourself believe it will happen to you.

To be idle is a short road to death and to be diligent is a way of life; foolish people are idle, wise people are diligent.

Just as courage imperils life, fear protects it.

We all gonna die eventually from something or other, but don’t be a wimp. Put up a good fight.

Because of your smile, you make life more beautiful.

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.

Worshipping is stripping ourselves of our idols, even the most hidden ones, and choosing the Lord as the centre, as the highway of our lives.

I’d just as soon play tennis with the net down.

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.

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.

The life so short, the craft so long to learn.