A squirrel dying in front of your house may be more relevant to your interests right now than people dying in Africa.

In India we only read about death, sickness, terrorism, crime.

For many men, the acquisition of wealth does not end their troubles, it only changes them.

The universe is wider than our views of it.

When will our consciences grow so tender that we will act to prevent human misery rather than avenge it?

Never deprive someone of hope; it might be all they have.

It’s not that I’m afraid to die. I just don’t want to be there when it happens.

My life as a child did not prepare me for the fact that the world is full of cruel and bitter things.

Any experience that touches you, in any particular way, is good. It can be a horrible experience.

He that is giddy thinks the world turns round.

I was never focused on me, me, me all the time. I was always focused on somebody else.

He who is cruel to animals becomes hard also in his dealings with men. We can judge the heart of a man by his treatment of animals.

That we must all die, we always knew; I wish I had remembered it sooner.

Where sense is wanting, everything is wanting.

The greatness of man is great in that he knows himself to be wretched. A tree does not know itself to be wretched.

I don’t want to get into it, but if you know someone, it doesn’t mean you agree with everything they say or they do.

From my perspective, I absolutely believe in a greater spiritual power, far greater than I am, from which I have derived strength in moments of sadness or fear. That’s what I believe, and it was very, very strong in the forest.

Life would be tragic if it weren’t funny.

When you have nothing important or interesting to say, don’t let anyone persuade you to say it.

Life is tragic simply because the earth turns and the sun inexorably rises and sets, and one day, for each of us, the sun will go down for the last, last time.

One sees great things from the valley; only small things from the peak.

In order to have friends, you must first be one.

We can be thankful to a friend for a few acres, or a little money; and yet for the freedom and command of the whole earth, and for the great benefits of our being, our life, health, and reason, we look upon ourselves as under no obligation.

Nature and human life are as various as our several constitutions. Who shall say what prospect life offers to another?

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

I don’t spend a lot of time thinking about dying, but I like to think that I’ve – if it did occur – that I would die peacefully and not make too much of a fuss about it.

If I died tomorrow, I would be a happy girl.

By stopping flying, you don’t only reduce your own carbon footprint but also that sends a signal to other people around you that the climate crisis is a real thing and that helps push a political movement.

There is no lonelier man in death, except the suicide, than that man who has lived many years with a good wife and then outlived her. If two people love each other there can be no happy end to it.

So many people are looking at what’s wrong, and I try to encourage them to look at what’s right in their life. A lot of people have it a lot worse than you do.

Truths and roses have thorns about them.

When death comes it is never our tenderness that we repent from, but our severity.

If all misfortunes were laid in one common heap whence everyone must take an equal portion, most people would be contented to take their own and depart.

How did it get so late so soon? Its night before its afternoon. December is here before its June. My goodness how the time has flewn. How did it get so late so soon?

It is possible to provide security against other ills, but as far as death is concerned, we men live in a city without walls.

As men are not able to fight against death, misery, ignorance, they have taken it into their heads, in order to be happy, not to think of them at all.

The life which men praise and regard as successful is but one kind. Why should we exaggerate any one kind at the expense of the others?

For something to collapse, not all systems have to shut down. In most cases, just one system is enough. For example, the human body is a system of systems. If just one system, such as the cardiovascular system, shuts down, death follows.

You’re born. You suffer. You die. Fortunately, there’s a loophole.

To observations which ourselves we make, we grow more partial for th‘ observer’s sake.

A lot of people have it a lot worse than you do.

I do not know what I may appear to the world; but to myself, I seem to have been only like a boy playing on the seashore, and diverting myself now and then in finding a smoother pebble or prettier shell than ordinary, while the great ocean of truth lay all undiscovered before me.

Some men see things as they are, and say why. I dream of things that never were, and say why not.

Truth is beautiful, without doubt; but so are lies.

A child thinks 20 shillings and 20 years can scarce ever be spent.

Creativity has got to start with humanity and when you’re a human being, you feel, you suffer. You’re gay, you’re sick, you’re nervous or whatever.

Latinos are Republican. They just don’t know it yet.

Seek first to understand, then to be understood.

See, when you drive home today, you’ve got a big windshield on the front of your car. And you’ve got a little bitty rearview mirror. And the reason the windshield is so large and the rearview mirror is so small is because what’s happened in your past is not near as important as what’s in your future.

Which death is preferably to every other? ‚The unexpected‘.

I think that we have opportunities all around us – sometimes we just don’t recognize them.

We need every person on Earth to acknowledge that climate change is real and encourage each other and our leaders to address the challenge.

What really raises one’s indignation against suffering is not suffering intrinsically, but the senselessness of suffering.

You can’t have a rigid view that all new taxes are evil.

For me, it is far better to grasp the Universe as it really is than to persist in delusion, however satisfying and reassuring.

Friendship is but another name for an alliance with the follies and the misfortunes of others. Our own share of miseries is sufficient: why enter then as volunteers into those of another?

I think that all people who feel that there is injustice in the world anywhere should learn as much of it as they can bear. That is our duty.

The thing to do, it seems to me, is to prepare yourself so you can be a rainbow in somebody else’s cloud. Somebody who may not look like you. May not call God the same name you call God – if they call God at all. I may not dance your dances or speak your language. But be a blessing to somebody. That’s what I think.

I don’t feel we did wrong in taking this great country away from them. There were great numbers of people who needed new land, and the Indians were selfishly trying to keep it for themselves.

Life would be infinitely happier if we could only be born at the age of eighty and gradually approach eighteen.

There are no moral phenomena at all, but only a moral interpretation of phenomena.