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

There are two ways to live: you can live as if nothing is a miracle; you can live as if everything is a miracle.

Thou know’st the first time that we smell the air we wawl and cry. When we are born we cry, that we are come to this great state of fools.

I left the woods for as good a reason as I went there. Perhaps it seemed to me that I had several more lives to live and could not spare any more time for that one.

The stroke of death is as a lover’s pinch, which hurts and is desired.

The loss of life will be irreplaceable.

Existence really is an imperfect tense that never becomes a present.

Whether you like it or not, you’re forced to come to the realisation that death is out there. But I don’t fear death, I’m a fatalist. I believe when it’s your time, that’s it. It’s the hand you’re dealt.

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.‘

The experience of democracy is like the experience of life itself-always changing, infinite in its variety, sometimes turbulent and all the more valuable for having been tested by adversity.

Death and vulgarity are the only two facts in the nineteenth century that one cannot explain away.

Basically, when you get to my age, you’ll really measure your success in life by how many of the people you want to have love you actually do love you.

While there’s life, there’s hope.

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.

Seemingly, man has learned to live without God, preoccupied and indifferent toward Him and concerned only about material security and pleasure.

The universe is change; our life is what our thoughts make it.

If we don’t know life, how can we know death?

I’m spending a year dead for tax reasons.

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

Someone has to die in order that the rest of us should value life more.

Keep love in your heart. A life without it is like a sunless garden when the flowers are dead.

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

I don’t want to achieve immortality through my work. I want to achieve it through not dying.

The more you live in the present moment, the more the fear of death disappears.

If you don’t live your life, then who will?

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

For time is the longest distance between two places.

It is the cause, not the death, that makes the martyr.

The universe is transformation: life is opinion.

Life well spent is long.

Life is tragic. You are tiny and flawed and ignorant and weak, and everything else is huge, complex, and overwhelming.

It is through gratitude for the present moment that the spiritual dimension of life opens up.

Life is all memory, except for the one present moment that goes by you so quickly you hardly catch it going.

My thought is me: that is why I cannot stop thinking. I exist because I think I cannot keep from thinking.

Many people are alive but don’t touch the miracle of being alive.

Ah, mon cher, for anyone who is alone, without God and without a master, the weight of days is dreadful.

Life’s like a play: it’s not the length, but the excellence of the acting that matters.

My focus is to forget the pain of life. Forget the pain, mock the pain, reduce it. And laugh.

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

My life is mine to remember.

We are an impossibility in an impossible universe.

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

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.

It is impossible to experience one’s death objectively and still carry a tune.

Neil Young is my hero, and such a great example. You know what that guy has been doing for the past 40 years? Making music. That’s what that guy does. Sometimes you pay attention, sometimes you don’t. Sometimes he hands it to you, sometimes he keeps it to himself. He’s a good man with a beautiful family and wonderful life.

Every parting gives a foretaste of death, every reunion a hint of the resurrection.

The only length of life that seems to satisfy the longings of the human heart is life everlasting.

In order to exist, man must rebel, but rebellion must respect the limits that it discovers in itself – limits where minds meet, and in meeting, begin to exist.

Worshipping is stripping ourselves of our idols, even the most hidden ones, and choosing the Lord as the centre, as the highway of our lives.

What would life be if we had no courage to attempt anything?

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

Life is what happens while you are busy making other plans.

My fear was not of death itself, but a death without meaning.

The union of the Word and the Mind produces that mystery which is called Life… Learn deeply of the Mind and its mystery, for therein lies the secret of immortality.

Life can be boring unless you put some effort into it.

Life every man holds dear; but the dear man holds honor far more precious dear than life.

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.

In seeking comfort, we generally find a quiet corner in life where there is a minimum of conflict, and then we are afraid to step out of that seclusion.

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.

The valiant never taste of death but once.

When you cease to exist, then who will you blame?