Between us and heaven or hell there is only life, which is the frailest thing in the world.

In the brute physical world, and the one encompassed by medicine, there are all too many things that could kill you, don’t kill you, and then leave you considerably weaker.

Life imitates art far more than art imitates Life.

My one regret in life is that I am not someone else.

Life levels all men. Death reveals the eminent.

If Hitler invaded hell I would make at least a favourable reference to the devil in the House of Commons.

The truth is you don’t know what is going to happen tomorrow. Life is a crazy ride, and nothing is guaranteed.

Remembering that I’ll be dead soon is the most important tool I’ve ever encountered to help me make the big choices in life. Because almost everything – all external expectations, all pride, all fear of embarrassment or failure – these things just fall away in the face of death, leaving only what is truly important.

Good is positive. Evil is merely privative, not absolute: it is like cold, which is the privation of heat. All evil is so much death or nonentity. Benevolence is absolute and real. So much benevolence as a man hath, so much life hath he.

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

There is always inequality in life. Some men are killed in a war and some men are wounded and some men never leave the country. Life is unfair.

What we have once enjoyed we can never lose. All that we love deeply becomes a part of us.

I’ve been afraid of people playing their life away with too many toys.

There is a ‚sanctity‘ involved with bringing a child into this world: it is better than bombing one out of it.

Keep in mind that no matter how perfectly you get your life in order, you will never be rid of all your problems. Problems are a way of life, always have been, always will be. But how you elect to view those problems is all up to you.

Nobody can write the life of a man but those who have eat and drunk and lived in social intercourse with him.

A life spent making mistakes is not only more honorable, but more useful than a life spent doing nothing.

For time is the longest distance between two places.

Man wants to live, but it is useless to hope that this desire will dictate all his actions.

I was really too honest a man to be a politician and live.

Life and death are one thread, the same line viewed from different sides.

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

Baseball 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.

Previous generations understood about death, and undoubtedly would have seen a reasonable amount of death. Once you get into the Victorian era, you might well have seen the funerals of many of your siblings before you were very old.

My favorite things in life don’t cost any money. It’s really clear that the most precious resource we all have is time.

If you are not allowed to laugh in heaven, I don’t want to go there.

There is only one thing in life worse than being talked about, and that is not being talked about.

We are such stuff as dreams are made on; and our little life is rounded with a sleep.

We may be surprised at the people we find in heaven. God has a soft spot for sinners. His standards are quite low.

A belief in hell and the knowledge that every ambition is doomed to frustration at the hands of a skeleton have never prevented the majority of human beings from behaving as though death were no more than an unfounded rumor.

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.

We have lost contact with reality, the simplicity of life.

I pledge allegiance to the Christian flag, and to the Savior, for whose Kingdom it stands, one Savior, crucified, risen, and coming again, with life and liberty for all who believe.

Life is made of ever so many partings welded together.

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

There is no value in life except what you choose to place upon it and no happiness in any place except what you bring to it yourself.

Go to Heaven for the climate, Hell for the company.

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

But friendship is precious, not only in the shade, but in the sunshine of life, and thanks to a benevolent arrangement the greater part of life is sunshine.

I do not know whether there are gods, but there ought to be.

The astronomer will believe that the most erratic comet will yet accomplish its journey and revisit our sphere; but we give up those for lost who have not wandered one-half the distance from the centre of light and life.

People think, because we’re young, we aren’t complex, but that’s not true. We deal with life and love and broken hearts in the same way a woman a few years older might.

Don’t look forward to the day you stop suffering, because when it comes you’ll know you’re dead.

It may be, it just may be, that life as we know it with its humanity is more unique than many have thought.

The saddest aspect of life right now is that science gathers knowledge faster than society gathers wisdom.

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

I’m half living my life between reality and fantasy at all times. It’s best not to ask questions and just enjoy.

A chief event of life is the day in which we have encountered a mind that startled us.

When you look at the sun during your walking meditation, the mindfulness of the body helps you to see that the sun is in you; without the sun there is no life at all and suddenly you get in touch with the sun in a different way.

Life loves to be taken by the lapel and told: ‚I’m with you kid. Let’s go.‘

Step with care and great tact, and remember that Life’s a Great Balancing Act.

Death is nothing, but to live defeated and inglorious is to die daily.

We’re a blip in the existence of the universe, and we’re constantly trying to pull each other down. Not doing things to help each other.

The greatest destroyer of peace is abortion because if a mother can kill her own child, what is left for me to kill you and you to kill me? There is nothing between.

We ought to fly away from earth to heaven as quickly as we can; and to fly away is to become like God, as far as this is possible; and to become like him is to become holy, just, and wise.

If you have the opportunity to play this game of life you need to appreciate every moment. A lot of people don’t appreciate the moment until it’s passed.

The first step, my son, which one makes in the world, is the one on which depends the rest of our days.

I expected to die. At no time before the trial did I expect to escape with my life. Yet being executed in the gas chamber did not necessarily mean defeat. It could be one more step to bring the community to a higher level of consciousness.

Every man has the right to risk his own life in order to preserve it. Has it ever been said that a man who throws himself out the window to escape from a fire is guilty of suicide?

Everything is political. I will never be a politician or even think political. Me just deal with life and nature. That is the greatest thing to me.

Chaos often breeds life, when order breeds habit.