Chance is an element of life. What I try to do is study what I call the mechanics of reality as carefully as I can.

Death is the king of this world: ‚Tis his park where he breeds life to feed him. Cries of pain are music for his banquet.

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

Man weeps to think that he will die so soon; woman, that she was born so long ago.

The cost of a thing is the amount of what I will call life which is required to be exchanged for it, immediately or in the long run.

This industry has been really good to me. It’s been a great life. I’m not through yet. I’m ready when you are, Mr. DeMille.

Old age: the crown of life, our play’s last act.

Science is organized knowledge. Wisdom is organized life.

To the wise, life is a problem; to the fool, a solution.

It is only a man’s own fundamental thoughts that have truth and life in them. For it is these that he really and completely understands. To read the thoughts of others is like taking the remains of someone else’s meal, like putting on the discarded clothes of a stranger.

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.

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

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.

Everything passes. Nobody gets anything for keeps. And that’s how we’ve got to live.

As is a tale, so is life: not how long it is, but how good it is, is what matters.

Facts are stubborn things.

The art is long, life is short.

Neither should a ship rely on one small anchor, nor should life rest on a single hope.

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.

Every possession and every happiness is but lent by chance for an uncertain time, and may therefore be demanded back the next hour.

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.

What do you want a meaning for? Life is a desire, not a meaning.

The darkness is really out there. It’s not something that’s in my head, just. It’s in my work because it’s in the world.

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

Emotion creates reality, reality demands action.

Life was always a matter of waiting for the right moment to act.

Tomorrow is the most important thing in life. Comes into us at midnight very clean. It’s perfect when it arrives and it puts itself in our hands. It hopes we’ve learned something from yesterday.

Social media has given us this idea that we should all have a posse of friends when in reality, if we have one or two really good friends, we are lucky.

We should all start to live before we get too old.

And were an epitaph to be my story I’d have a short one ready for my own. I would have written of me on my stone: I had a lover’s quarrel with the world.

Unbeing dead isn’t being alive.

This soul, or life within us, by no means agrees with the life outside us. If one has the courage to ask her what she thinks, she is always saying the very opposite to what other people say.

Reality is only a Rorschach ink-blot, you know.

Things in themselves have no life in them. A car can’t comfort or encourage you. A house means nothing if there’s no life and love inside.

I always wished for this, but it’s almost turning into more of a nightmare than a dream.

Every day I go to my study and sit at my desk and put the computer on. At that moment, I have to open the door. It’s a big, heavy door. You have to go into the Other Room. Metaphorically, of course. And you have to come back to this side of the room. And you have to shut the door.

Our life is made by the death of others.

This is certain, that a man that studieth revenge keeps his wounds green, which otherwise would heal and do well.

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.

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

But men must know, that in this theatre of man’s life it is reserved only for God and angels to be lookers on.

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

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 does not cease to be funny when people die any more than it ceases to be serious when people laugh.

Everything can change at any moment, suddenly and forever.

Most of the change we think we see in life is due to truths being in and out of favor.

Is life worth living? It all depends on the liver.

A man that studieth revenge keeps his own wounds green.

Water is life, and clean water means health.

The honor of a nation is its life.

The good parts of a book may be only something a writer is lucky enough to overhear or it may be the wreck of his whole damn life and one is as good as the other.

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

Death is one moment, and life is so many of them.

Life is an unanswered question, but let’s still believe in the dignity and importance of the question.

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

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

You can never really live anyone else’s life, not even your child’s. The influence you exert is through your own life, and what you’ve become yourself.

The ancients considered mechanics in a twofold respect: as rational, which proceeds accurately by demonstration, and practical. To practical mechanics all the manual arts belong, from which mechanics took its name.

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

I definitely connected to the fact that life gets out of control and you end up doing things and wishing you were doing other things instead.

Sleep is the interest we have to pay on the capital which is called in at death; and the higher the rate of interest and the more regularly it is paid, the further the date of redemption is postponed.