The Congo was the most difficult shoot of my life but was also maybe the greatest adventure of my life.
Anthony BourdainIt is often said that before you die your life passes before your eyes. It is in fact true. It’s called living.
Terry PratchettI still live, I still think: I still have to live, for I still have to think.
Friedrich NietzscheThere is no doubt that life is given us, not to be enjoyed, but to be overcome; to be got over.
Arthur SchopenhauerI have learned, in my life and work as a sportswriter, that big-time Sports and big-time Politics are not so far apart in America. They are both a means to the same end, which is victory… And why not? Victory is good for you, and don’t let anybody tell you different.
Hunter S. ThompsonTo be renewed is everything. What more could one ask for than to have one’s youth back again?
George LucasMusic was an experience, intimately married to your life. You could pay to hear music, but after you did, it was over, gone – a memory.
David ByrneI am not afraid of death, I just don’t want to be there when it happens.
Woody AllenIt 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.
J. K. RowlingBuild me a son, O Lord, who will be strong enough to know when he is weak, and brave enough to face himself when he is afraid, one who will be proud and unbending in honest defeat, and humble and gentle in victory.
Douglas MacArthurTake care to sell your horse before he dies. The art of life is passing losses on.
Robert FrostSuperstition is the poetry of life.
Johann Wolfgang von GoetheThe paradox of courage is that a man must be a little careless of his life even in order to keep it.
Gilbert K. ChestertonTo some extent I liken slavery to death.
Marcus Tullius CiceroDeath is the king of this world: ‚Tis his park where he breeds life to feed him. Cries of pain are music for his banquet.
George EliotUnbeing dead isn’t being alive.
E. E. CummingsWisdom 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.
Hermann HesseThere is a ‚sanctity‘ involved with bringing a child into this world: it is better than bombing one out of it.
James BaldwinI’ve had some dark nights of the soul, of course, but giving in to depression would be a sellout, a defeat.
Christopher HitchensLife is not a series of gig lamps symmetrically arranged; life is a luminous halo, a semi-transparent envelope surrounding us from the beginning of consciousness to the end.
Virginia WoolfThe art of living is more like wrestling than dancing.
Marcus AureliusViolent men have not been known in history to die to a man. They die up to a point.
Mahatma GandhiNothing in life is so exhilarating as to be shot at without result.
Winston ChurchillIt’s not morbid to talk about death. Most people don’t worry about death, they worry about a bad death.
Terry PratchettLove, we say, is life; but love without hope and faith is agonizing death.
Elbert HubbardOnce I knew only darkness and stillness… my life was without past or future… but a little word from the fingers of another fell into my hand that clutched at emptiness, and my heart leaped to the rapture of living.
Helen KellerThere will be no lasting peace either in the heart of individuals or in social customs until death is outlawed.
Albert CamusMars is the only place in the solar system where it’s possible for life to become multi-planetarian.
Elon MuskNeither should a ship rely on one small anchor, nor should life rest on a single hope.
EpictetusLife does not cease to be funny when people die any more than it ceases to be serious when people laugh.
George Bernard ShawExcept for the young or very happy, I can’t say I am sorry for anyone who dies.
William Makepeace ThackerayMusic is either sacred or secular. The sacred agrees with its dignity, and here has its greatest effect on life, an effect that remains the same through all ages and epochs. Secular music should be cheerful throughout.
Johann Wolfgang von GoetheHe who is not courageous enough to take risks will accomplish nothing in life.
Muhammad AliIt seems the older you get, the more life comes into focus.
John C. MaxwellIf you cannot understand that there is something in man which responds to the challenge of this mountain and goes out to meet it, that the struggle is the struggle of life itself upward and forever upward, then you won’t see why we go.
Edmund HillaryI 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.
Haruki MurakamiFind ecstasy in life; the mere sense of living is joy enough.
Emily DickinsonMisfortune seldom intrudes upon the wise man; his greatest and highest interests are directed by reason throughout the course of life.
EpicurusIn this world nothing can be said to be certain, except death and taxes.
Benjamin FranklinDeath is a commingling of eternity with time; in the death of a good man, eternity is seen looking through time.
Johann Wolfgang von GoetheLife loves to be taken by the lapel and told: ‚I’m with you kid. Let’s go.‘
Maya AngelouA worthy woman personifies the truly noble and worthwhile attributes of life.
Russell M. NelsonReligion was instituted to make us happy in this life and in the other. What must we do to be happy in the life to come? Be just.
VoltaireLife is far too important a thing ever to talk seriously about.
Oscar WildeBaseball is a universe as large as life itself, and therefore all things in life, whether good or bad, whether tragic or comic, fall within its domain.
Paul AusterThere are two ways to live: you can live as if nothing is a miracle; you can live as if everything is a miracle.
Albert EinsteinLife is an ordeal, albeit an exciting one, but I wouldn’t trade it for the good old days of poverty and obscurity.
Jim CarreyLife can be boring unless you put some effort into it.
John C. MaxwellThis has always been my life and no one else’s, and that’s how it’s always been since the day I came in it.
Frank OceanPoliticians also have no leisure, because they are always aiming at something beyond political life itself, power and glory, or happiness.
AristotleDarn the wheel of the world! Why must it continually turn over? Where is the reverse gear?
Jack LondonMy life is real.
Nipsey HussleAlcohol is the anesthesia by which we endure the operation of life.
George Bernard ShawNature teaches us that tens of billions of light years may have passed, and life in all of its expressions has always been subjected to an incredible combination of matter and radiation.
Fidel CastroMy work is about my life, and what I want to do with it.
Alice WalkerThere is more to life than increasing its speed.
Mahatma GandhiLife, an age to the miserable, and a moment to the happy.
Francis BaconWhen I die, I’m gonna leave my body to science fiction.
Steven WrightRespect is one of life’s greatest treasures. I mean, what does it all add up to if you don’t have that?
Marilyn MonroeWithout discipline, there’s no life at all.
Katharine Hepburn