Death is a fearful thing.

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.

Why love if losing hurts so much? I have no answers anymore; only the life I have lived. The pain now is part of the happiness then.

My life is mine to remember.

Censorship is the tool of those who have the need to hide actualities from themselves and from others. Their fear is only their inability to face what is real, and I can’t vent any anger against them; I only feel this appalling sadness. Somewhere in their upbringing, they were shielded against the total facts of our existence.

Our existence is beyond our explanation, whether we believe in God or we have religion or we’re atheist. Our existence is beyond our understanding. No one has an answer.

We are looking for happiness and running after it in such a way that creates anger, fear and discrimination. So when you attend a retreat, you have a chance to look at the deep roots of this pollution of the collective energy that is unwholesome.

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.

Youth is to all the glad season of life; but often only by what it hopes, not by what it attains, or what it escapes.

Human life is far more important than just getting to the top of a mountain.

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

I do not like the man who squanders life for fame; give me the man who living makes a name.

If you like it you should enjoy it! Moderation in everything. If there’s things you really love, you should enjoy. You get one life, so you should enjoy it.

We make a living by what we get, but we make a life by what we give.

Must not all things at the last be swallowed up in death?

Life is thickly sown with thorns, and I know no other remedy than to pass quickly through them. The longer we dwell on our misfortunes, the greater is their power to harm us.

The existentialist says at once that man is anguish.

The direction in which education starts a man will determine his future in life.

Men must live and create. Live to the point of tears.

Part of the secret of a success in life is to eat what you like and let the food fight it out inside.

When you combine boring with fear, you have fun.

The world is very different now. For man holds in his mortal hands the power to abolish all forms of human poverty, and all forms of human life.

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

When we meet real tragedy in life, we can react in two ways – either by losing hope and falling into self-destructive habits, or by using the challenge to find our inner strength. Thanks to the teachings of Buddha, I have been able to take this second way.

I’m kind of claustrophobic… It’s not even like enclosed spaces. It’s like I hate being stuck in one band, you know? Just being stuck is the biggest drag, for fear that, you know, just that you can’t get out.

It put our energies to sleep and made visionaries of us – dreamers and indolent… It is good to begin life poor; it is good to begin life rich – these are wholesome; but to begin it prospectively rich! The man who has not experienced it cannot imagine the curse of it.

The only time you really live fully is from thirty to sixty. The young are slaves to dreams; the old servants of regrets. Only the middle-aged have all their five senses in the keeping of their wits.

Worry is a cycle of inefficient thoughts whirling around a center of fear.

To live a pure unselfish life, one must count nothing as one’s own in the midst of abundance.

He who fights with monsters might take care lest he thereby become a monster. Is not life a hundred times too short for us to bore ourselves?

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

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

Meditation can help us embrace our worries, our fear, our anger; and that is very healing. We let our own natural capacity of healing do the work.

All of us have been trained by education and environment to seek personal gain and security and to fight for ourselves. Though we cover it over with pleasant phrases, we have been educated for various professions within a system which is based on exploitation and acquisitive fear.

Colleges are like old-age homes, except for the fact that more people die in colleges.

There is always a present and extant life, be it better or worse, which all combine to uphold.

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

There are only two forces that unite men – fear and interest.

If there is one thing I fear less than everything else, it is, I believe, persecution for my opinions. There are a good many points about which I may be diffident, but when it comes to questions of Truth and intellectual independence, there is no holding me – I can envisage no finer end than to sacrifice oneself for a conviction.

A man builds a fine house; and now he has a master, and a task for life: he is to furnish, watch, show it, and keep it in repair, the rest of his days.

Every secret of a writer’s soul, every experience of his life, every quality of his mind is written large in his works.

Most of our lives aren’t that exciting, but the drama is still going on in the small details.

Fear is pain arising from the anticipation of evil.

Nature puts no question and answers none which we mortals ask. She has long ago taken her resolution.

The mind of America is seized by a fatal dry rot – and it’s only a question of time before all that the mind controls will run amuck in a frenzy of stupid, impotent fear.

Life is not a spectator sport. If you’re going to spend your whole life in the grandstand just watching what goes on, in my opinion you’re wasting your life.

Men walk this tightrope where any sign of weakness illicits shame, and so they’re afraid to make themselves vulnerable for fear of looking weak.

Courage is being scared to death… and saddling up anyway.

The life so short, the craft so long to learn.

Where fear is, happiness is not.

Unbeing dead isn’t being alive.

To live is to think.

For me life is continuously being hungry. The meaning of life is not simply to exist, to survive, but to move ahead, to go up, to achieve, to conquer.

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

There’s no tragedy in life like the death of a child. Things never get back to the way they were.

Many that live deserve death. And some that die deserve life. Can you give it to them? Then do not be too eager to deal out death in judgement. For even the very wise cannot see all ends.

The body politic, as well as the human body, begins to die as soon as it is born, and carries itself the causes of its destruction.

There is but one truly serious philosophical problem and that is suicide.

It’s not catastrophes, murders, deaths, diseases, that age and kill us; it’s the way people look and laugh, and run up the steps of omnibuses.

Life is hard. After all, it kills you.

Four hostile newspapers are more to be feared than a thousand bayonets.