I think if we didn’t contradict ourselves, it would be awfully boring. It would be tedious to be alive.

In a magazine, one can get – from cover to cover – 15 to 20 different ideas about life and how to live it.

Life’s like a play: it’s not the length, but the excellence of the acting that matters.

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.

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

When we meet real tragedy in life, we can react in two ways – either by losing hope and falling into self-destructive habits, or by using the challenge to find our inner strength. Thanks to the teachings of Buddha, I have been able to take this second way.

Life is a song to me.

Music was an experience, intimately married to your life. You could pay to hear music, but after you did, it was over, gone – a memory.

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

Judging whether life is or is not worth living amounts to answering the fundamental question of philosophy.

I do not believe in God; his existence has been disproved by Science. But in the concentration camp, I learned to believe in men.

Our life is frittered away by detail… simplify, simplify.

I think, often, people who run away are people who got into things most enthusiastically, and then they want more. They just demand more of life than what is happening in the moment. Sometimes this is a great mistake, as it’s always a good deal different than you expect it.

Genius goes around the world in its youth incessantly apologizing for having large feet. What wonder that later in life it should be inclined to raise those feet too swiftly to fools and bores.

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

The art of living is more like wrestling than dancing.

Our words will either bring life and victory or death and destruction. If we want to be happy, we have to be serious about speaking words of life that line up with God’s Word.

You listen to the radio and all the songs sound the same, from 8 in the morning to 12.

It is a common saying, and in everybody’s mouth, that life is but a sojourn.

Woman, or more precisely put, perhaps, marriage, is the representative of life with which you are meant to come to terms.

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

I have spent my life going from mania to mania. Somehow it has all paid off.

We cannot conceive of matter being formed of nothing, since things require a seed to start from… Therefore there is not anything which returns to nothing, but all things return dissolved into their elements.

I can think of nothing less pleasurable than a life devoted to pleasure.

Youth is a wonderful thing. What a crime to waste it on children.

Life is a tragedy when seen in close-up, but a comedy in long-shot.

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.

Some day science may have the existence of mankind in power, and the human race can commit suicide by blowing up the world.

Everybody believes in something and everybody, by virtue of the fact that they believe in something, uses that something to support their own existence.

We spend our lives, all of us, waiting for the great day, the great battle, or the deed of power. But that external consummation is not given to many: nor is it necessary. So long as our being is tensed, directed with passion, towards that which is the spirit of all things, then that spirit will emerge from our own hidden, nameless effort.

It is natural to die as to be born.

That it will never come again is what makes life sweet.

I can well conceive a man without hands, feet, head. But I cannot conceive man without thought; he would be a stone or a brute.

It is in life as it is in ways, the shortest way is commonly the foulest, and surely the fairer way is not much about.

Life is full of misery, loneliness, and suffering – and it’s all over much too soon.

This is not a bad life.

One day it will be over, and I don’t care.

But blind to former as to future fate, what mortal knows his pre-existent state?

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

Sometimes life hits you in the head with a brick. Don’t lose faith.

Gee, its lonesome in the outfield. It’s hard to keep awake with nothing to do.

Art is parasitic on life, just as criticism is parasitic on art.

I do not like the man who squanders life for fame; give me the man who living makes a name.

I never saw a contradiction between the ideas that sustain me and the ideas of that symbol, of that extraordinary figure, Jesus Christ.

I believe every human has a finite number of heartbeats. I don’t intend to waste any of mine.

Nothing cannot exist forever.

It is often said that before you die your life passes before your eyes. It is in fact true. It’s called living.

Even a happy life cannot be without a measure of darkness, and the word happy would lose its meaning if it were not balanced by sadness. It is far better take things as they come along with patience and equanimity.

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.

When you combine boring with fear, you have fun.

Life comes with many challenges. The ones that should not scare us are the ones we can take on and take control of.

I like telling stories, and I tell stories that interest me. It would be boring to have to go to nothing but the best restaurants. That would be a misery to me.

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

Life consists in what a man is thinking of all day.

The bird is powered by its own life and by its motivation.

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.

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

There is nothing permanent except change.

You cross me, I’m going to hurt you. But I’m really very gentle.

The one charm about marriage is that it makes a life of deception absolutely necessary for both parties.

Every day that is born into the world comes like a burst of music and rings the whole day through, and you make of it a dance, a dirge, or a life march, as you will.