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

Man – a being in search of meaning.

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

I’ve got all the money I’ll ever need, if I die by four o’clock.

I don’t know how much longer I’ll be around. I’ll probably be writing when the Lord says, ‚Maya, Maya Angelou, it’s time.‘

Reality has a way of intruding. Reality eventually intrudes on everything.

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.

The future is something which everyone reaches at the rate of 60 minutes an hour, whatever he does, whoever he is.

Love is anterior to life, posterior to death, initial of creation, and the exponent of breath.

As a medical doctor, I have known the face of adversity. I have seen much of death and dying, suffering and sorrow. I also remember the plight of students overwhelmed by their studies and of those striving to learn a foreign language. And I recall the fatigue and frustration felt by young parents with children in need.

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

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.

Believe that life is worth living and your belief will help create the fact.

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.

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.

When death, the great reconciler, has come, it is never our tenderness that we repent of, but our severity.

Millions of people die every day. Everyone’s got to go sometime.

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

My philosophy in life is, Decide what you want to do. You have to have something to hope for.

We think that life develops spontaneously on Earth, so it must be possible for life to develop on suitable planets elsewhere in the universe. But we don’t know the probability that a planet develops life.

I’m not trying to follow a set of rules and stuff. I’m just living my life.

One of the first signs of the beginning of understanding is the wish to die.

Security is mostly a superstition. It does not exist in nature, nor do the children of men as a whole experience it. Avoiding danger is no safer in the long run than outright exposure. Life is either a daring adventure, or nothing.

They died hard, those savage men – like wounded wolves at bay. They were filthy, and they were lousy, and they stunk. And I loved them.

You cannot find peace by avoiding life.

Death will be a great relief. No more interviews.

Live your life while you have it. Life is a splendid gift. There is nothing small in it. Far the greatest things grow by God’s law out of the smallest. But to live your life, you must discipline it.

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

The heretic is always better dead. And mortal eyes cannot distinguish the saint from the heretic.

The world is a stage, but the play is badly cast.

If you were to destroy the belief in immortality in mankind, not only love but every living force on which the continuation of all life in the world depended, would dry up at once.

You will never be happy if you continue to search for what happiness consists of. You will never live if you are looking for the meaning of life.

The happiness of this life depends less on what befalls you than the way in which you take it.

I don’t know how to have a normal relationship because I try to act normal and love from a normal place and live a normal life, but there is sort of an abnormal magnifying glass, like telescope lens, on everything that happens.

In war, you win or lose, live or die – and the difference is just an eyelash.

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

Football (soccer) is a matter of life and death, except more important.

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

I make preparations both to live and to die every day, but with the emphasis on not dying, and on acting as if I was going to carry on living.

It’s pretty intense writing about my own life, my own struggles.

When I die, I’m gonna leave my body to science fiction.

He only earns his freedom and his life Who takes them every day by storm.

Life consists in what a man is thinking of all day.

To be, or not to be, that is the question.

Don’t be a spectator, don’t let life pass you by.

Life is the childhood of our immortality.

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 should all start to live before we get too old.

This is the highest wisdom that I own; freedom and life are earned by those alone who conquer them each day anew.

It is vain for the coward to flee; death follows close behind; it is only by defying it that the brave escape.

My other brother-in-law died. He was a karate expert, then joined the army. The first time he saluted, he killed himself.

Life is not a matter of holding good cards, but sometimes, playing a poor hand well.

Life is better when people are working, happy, and spending money.

If there is no God, everything is permitted.

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

Shrinking away from death is something unhealthy and abnormal which robs the second half of life of its purpose.

There is nothing so strong or safe in an emergency of life as the simple truth.

If a man had more than one life, I think a little hanging would not hurt this one; but after he is once dead, we cannot bring him back, no matter how sorry we may be; so the boy shall be pardoned.

The next time someone tells you we can trim the budget by cutting aid, I hope you will ask whether it will come at the cost of more people dying.

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

As a well-spent day brings happy sleep, so a life well spent brings happy death.