We never live; we are always in the expectation of living.

Men create gods after their own image, not only with regard to their form but with regard to their mode of life.

Nothing in life is promised except death.

Life is to be lived. If you have to support yourself, you had bloody well better find some way that is going to be interesting. And you don’t do that by sitting around.

If a whole bunch of people want to make your life a living hell, they’re gonna do it.

Art is the proper task of life.

When you look into an abyss, the abyss also looks into you.

We moralize among ruins.

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.

I tell you, we are here on Earth to fart around, and don’t let anybody tell you different.

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

I work very hard, and I play very hard. I’m grateful for life. And I live it – I believe life loves the liver of it. I live it.

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.

Each life is made up of mistakes and learning, waiting and growing, practicing patience and being persistent.

It is a mania shared by philosophers of all ages to deny what exists and to explain what does not exist.

Yes, I’m always – I’m always surprised when you make a film and you live with it a while and you put it out, you never dream that anybody is ever going to want to really see it.

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

No finite point has meaning without an infinite reference point.

To live is to suffer, to survive is to find some meaning in the suffering.

To free a person from error is to give, and not to take away.

No one can possibly know what is about to happen: it is happening, each time, for the first time, for the only time.

Humans are amphibians – half spirit and half animal. As spirits they belong to the eternal world, but as animals they inhabit time.

Knowledge which is divorced from justice, may be called cunning rather than wisdom.

Life is one grand, sweet song, so start the music.

The perception of beauty is a moral test.

Unbeing dead isn’t being alive.

If you love life, don’t waste time, for time is what life is made up of.

Neil Young is my hero, and such a great example. You know what that guy has been doing for the past 40 years? Making music. That’s what that guy does. Sometimes you pay attention, sometimes you don’t. Sometimes he hands it to you, sometimes he keeps it to himself. He’s a good man with a beautiful family and wonderful life.

In order to exist, man must rebel, but rebellion must respect the limits that it discovers in itself – limits where minds meet, and in meeting, begin to exist.

It has always been a mystery to me how men can feel themselves honoured by the humiliation of their fellow beings.

A man is ethical only when life, as such, is sacred to him, that of plants and animals as that of his fellow men, and when he devotes himself helpfully to all life that is in need of help.

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

Life is too short not to celebrate nice moments!

I suppose that’s one of the ironies of life doing the wrong thing at the right moment.

To be a real philosopher all that is necessary is to hate some one else’s type of thinking.

Science is increasingly answering questions that used to be the province of religion.

An act has no ethical quality whatever unless it be chosen out of several all equally possible.

Philosophy begins in wonder.

I’ve never bought into any sort of hard and fast, this-box/that-box characterization. People are individuals. Yes, they may be expected to be a particular way. But that doesn’t mean they’re going to be that way.

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.

Imagination is everything. It is the preview of life’s coming attractions.

In war as in life, it is often necessary when some cherished scheme has failed, to take up the best alternative open, and if so, it is folly not to work for it with all your might.

The major value in life is not what you get. The major value in life is what you become.

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

Doubt is not a pleasant condition, but certainty is absurd.

I know what I do for my team and what my teammates expect of me on both ends of the floor.

If you had your life to live over again, do it overseas.

When you come to see a picture of mine, I want you to know that I’m not going to do anything that will make you uncomfortable. I want you to know that you won’t be disappointed in me.

It’s the philosophies of being an athlete that carry me today.

My favorite thing in life is writing about life, specifically the parts of life concerning love. Because, as far as I’m concerned, love is absolutely everything.

The foolish man conceives the idea of ‚self.‘ The wise man sees there is no ground on which to build the idea of ‚self;‘ thus, he has a right conception of the world and well concludes that all compounds amassed by sorrow will be dissolved again, but the truth will remain.

There is a blessed necessity by which the interest of men is always driving them to the right; and, again, making all crime mean and ugly.

I have noticed even people who claim everything is predestined, and that we can do nothing to change it, look before they cross the road.

There is nothing, Sir, too little for so little a creature as man. It is by studying little things that we attain the great art of having as little misery and as much happiness as possible.

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

What is straight? A line can be straight, or a street, but the human heart, oh, no, it’s curved like a road through mountains.

Exaggeration is truth that has lost its temper.

Hope in reality is the worst of all evils because it prolongs the torments of man.

Keep me away from the wisdom which does not cry, the philosophy which does not laugh and the greatness which does not bow before children.

This is my simple religion. There is no need for temples; no need for complicated philosophy. Our own brain, our own heart is our temple; the philosophy is kindness.

Death is a fearful thing.