Life is as tedious as twice-told tale, vexing the dull ear of a drowsy man.

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.

I put all my genius into my life; I put only my talent into my works.

I’m more of a realist when it comes to life, and I’d much rather my mother be in a spiritual place in Heaven than in a bed, sick, fighting for her life.

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

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

Never throughout history has a man who lived a life of ease left a name worth remembering.

Life is neither good or evil, but only a place for good and evil.

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

A worthy woman personifies the truly noble and worthwhile attributes of life.

Life is not accumulation, it is about contribution.

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

There are worse things in life than death. Have you ever spent an evening with an insurance salesman?

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

We all want to win more, but it’s all about being blessed and embracing your blessings. We have life.

We might as well die as to go on living like this.

Most of the luxuries and many of the so-called comforts of life are not only not indispensable, but positive hindrances to the elevation of mankind.

Singleness of purpose is one of the chief essentials for success in life, no matter what may be one’s aim.

Accept the terrible responsibility of life with eyes wide open.

Those who have never known the deep intimacy and the intense companionship of mutual love have missed the best thing that life has to give.

Without football, my life is worth nothing.

All the time, I’ve felt that life is a wager and that I probably was getting more out of leading a bohemian existence as a writer than I would have if I didn’t.

I draw pleasure in governance, in doing new things and bringing people together. That pleasure is all I need from life.

Life’s short. Anything could happen, and it usually does, so there is no point in sitting around thinking about all the ifs, ands and buts.

The pursuit of truth and beauty is a sphere of activity in which we are permitted to remain children all our lives.

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

I like gaps; all my stories have gaps. It seems this is the way people’s lives present themselves.

Life cannot subsist in society but by reciprocal concessions.

Water is life, and clean water means health.

Once you fully apprehend the vacuity of a life without struggle, you are equipped with the basic means of salvation.

The aim of life is appreciation; there is no sense in not appreciating things; and there is no sense in having more of them if you have less appreciation of them.

I’m 31 now. I think I’m beginning to understand what life is, what romance is, and what a relationship means.

I love sleep. My life has the tendency to fall apart when I’m awake, you know?

Satisfaction consists in freedom from pain, which is the positive element of life.

Life is made of ever so many partings welded together.

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

Life isn’t fair, but God is.

I believe that God put us in this jolly world to be happy and enjoy life.

Everything can change at any moment, suddenly and forever.

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.

Human life is far more important than just getting to the top of a mountain.

This has been my life for many years; one role feeds the other.

Darn the wheel of the world! Why must it continually turn over? Where is the reverse gear?

There are only the pursued, the pursuing, the busy and the tired.

Read no history: nothing but biography, for that is life without theory.

An unused life is an early death.

Life is too short to be little. Man is never so manly as when he feels deeply, acts boldly, and expresses himself with frankness and with fervor.

I never woke up and thought, ‚I really want to live a bold life.‘

One always dies too soon or too late. And yet, life is there, finished: the line is drawn, and it must all be added up. You are nothing other than your life.

I do think there must be some kind of interaction between your living life and the life that goes on from here.

Without music, life would be a mistake.

The world is like a grand staircase, some are going up and some are going down.

Only a life lived for others is a life worthwhile.

May you live your life as if the maxim of your actions were to become universal law.

It is not length of life, but depth of life.

The key to immortality is first living a life worth remembering.

I’m here as a product of process of evolution, which doesn’t make very many exceptions. And which rates life relatively cheaply.

All life is an experiment. The more experiments you make the better.

The object of life is not to be on the side of the majority, but to escape finding oneself in the ranks of the insane.

The greatest discovery of my generation is that a human being can alter his life by altering his attitudes.

There is no wealth but life.