Courage is almost a contradiction in terms. It means a strong desire to live taking the form of readiness to die.

The figure a poem makes. It begins in delight and ends in wisdom… in a clarification of life – not necessarily a great clarification, such as sects and cults are founded on, but in a momentary stay against confusion.

The end of life is to be like God, and the soul following God will be like Him.

I look forward to death with great anticipation, to meeting God face to face.

Homeland or death! Socialism or death! We shall overcome!

One day it will be over, and I don’t care.

The fishermen know that the sea is dangerous and the storm terrible, but they have never found these dangers sufficient reason for remaining ashore.

The ads all call me fearless, but that’s just publicity. Anyone who thinks I’m not scared out of my mind whenever I do one of my stunts is crazier than I am.

Life is the childhood of our immortality.

I would rather live my life as if there is a God and die to find out there isn’t, than live as if there isn’t and to die to find out that there is.

When we are born we cry that we are come to this great stage of fools.

Without music, life would be a mistake.

He is a man of courage who does not run away, but remains at his post and fights against the enemy.

Death surrenders us totally to God: it makes us enter into him; we must, in return, surrender ourselves to death with absolute love and self-abandonment since, when death comes, all we can do is to surrender ourselves completely to the domination and guidance of God.

While I thought that I was learning how to live, I have been learning how to die.

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

The state comes into existence for the sake of life and continues to exist for the sake of good life.

Life is so short. I would rather sing one song than interpret the thousand.

Next to knowing when to seize an opportunity, the most important thing in life is to know when to forego an advantage.

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.

Let us never negotiate out of fear. But let us never fear to negotiate.

I’ll die a crazy old man!

As soon as there is life there is danger.

Misfortune seldom intrudes upon the wise man; his greatest and highest interests are directed by reason throughout the course of life.

Fame and power are the objects of all men. Even their partial fruition is gained by very few; and that, too, at the expense of social pleasure, health, conscience, life.

Life is ten percent what happens to you and ninety percent how you respond to it.

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

Except for the young or very happy, I can’t say I am sorry for anyone who dies.

The art of living well and the art of dying well are one.

There is a very fine line between loving life and being greedy for it.

Every loss of life is terrible.

Courage is a mean with regard to fear and confidence.

What do we live for, if not to make life less difficult for each other?

My great hope is to laugh as much as I cry; to get my work done and try to love somebody and have the courage to accept the love in return.

Tell your heart that the fear of suffering is worse than the suffering itself. And no heart has ever suffered when it goes in search of its dream.

A life without adventure is likely to be unsatisfying, but a life in which adventure is allowed to take whatever form it will is sure to be short.

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.

Even a happy life cannot be without a measure of darkness, and the word happy would lose its meaning if it were not balanced by sadness. It is far better take things as they come along with patience and equanimity.

My days, my years, my life has seen up and downs, lights and darknesses. If I wrote only and continually of the ‚light‘ and never mentioned the other, then as an artist, I would be a liar.

No one knows whether death, which people fear to be the greatest evil, may not be the greatest good.

Those who have never known the deep intimacy and the intense companionship of mutual love have missed the best thing that life has to give.

Life is not living in the suburbs with a white picket fence. That’s not life. Somehow our American culture has made it out that that’s what life needs to be – and that if it’s not that, it’s all screwed up. It’s not.

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

All our dreams can come true, if we have the courage to pursue them.

Without football, my life is worth nothing.

Sooner or later, I hate to break it to you, you’re gonna die, so how do you fill in the space between here and there? It’s yours. Seize your space.

If we take the generally accepted definition of bravery as a quality which knows no fear, I have never seen a brave man. All men are frightened. The more intelligent they are, the more they are frightened.

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

Prepare for death, if here at night you roam, and sign your will before you sup from home.

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.

Courage that grows from constitution often forsakes a man when he has occasion for it; courage which arises from a sense of duty acts; in a uniform manner.

The aim of life is appreciation; there is no sense in not appreciating things; and there is no sense in having more of them if you have less appreciation of them.

All my life I’ve looked at words as though I were seeing them for the first time.

Life is essentially a cheat and its conditions are those of defeat; the redeeming things are not happiness and pleasure but the deeper satisfactions that come out of struggle.

Without discipline, there’s no life at all.

Courage is the price that life exacts for granting peace.

May you live your life as if the maxim of your actions were to become universal law.

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

Life must be lived as play.

Life is an adventure, it’s not a package tour.

Contradiction is not a sign of falsity, nor the lack of contradiction a sign of truth.