Death is nothing, but to live defeated and inglorious is to die daily.

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.

Among the many values in life, I appreciate freedom most.

No one can possibly know what is about to happen: it is happening, each time, for the first time, for the only time.

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

You can’t connect the dots looking forward; you can only connect them looking backwards. So you have to trust that the dots will somehow connect in your future. You have to trust in something – your gut, destiny, life, karma, whatever. This approach has never let me down, and it has made all the difference in my life.

If a victory is told in detail, one can no longer distinguish it from a defeat.

The act of dying is one of the acts of life.

Fantasy is a necessary ingredient in living, it’s a way of looking at life through the wrong end of a telescope, and that enables you to laugh at life’s realities.

I’ve been fortunate to have had the life I had prior to Hollywood. I wasn’t starving; I was going to eat the next day.

Dying is one of the few things that can be done as easily lying down.

The tragedy of life is what dies inside a man while he lives.

Life doesn’t imitate art, it imitates bad television.

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.

Respect is one of life’s greatest treasures. I mean, what does it all add up to if you don’t have that?

From the middle of life onward, only he remains vitally alive who is ready to die with life.

I have always reckoned the dignity of the republic of first importance and preferable to life.

I intend, before the endgame looms, to die sitting in a chair in my own garden with a glass of brandy in my hand and Thomas Tallis on the iPod. Oh, and since this is England, I had better add, ‚If wet, in the library.‘ Who could say that this is bad?

Create a ladder of values and priorities in your life, reminding yourself of what really matters to you.

To the well-organized mind, death is but the next great adventure.

As a general rule, the most successful man in life is the man who has the best information.

As long as your body is healthy and under control and death is distant, try to save your soul; when death is immanent what can you do?

Peoples do not defy repression and death, nor do they remain for nights on end protesting energetically, just because of merely formal matters.

To not to have entirely wasted one’s life seems to be a worthy accomplishment, if only for myself.

You can’t imagine parlor ballads drifting out of high-rise multi-towered buildings. That kind of music existed in a more timeless state of life.

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.

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.

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

No one can pass through life, any more than he can pass through a bit of country, without leaving tracks behind, and those tracks may often be helpful to those coming after him in finding their way.

Life is tragic simply because the earth turns and the sun inexorably rises and sets, and one day, for each of us, the sun will go down for the last, last time.

All variety of created objects which represent order and life in the universe could happen only by the willful reasoning of its original Creator, whom I call the ‚Lord God.‘

It may be, it just may be, that life as we know it with its humanity is more unique than many have thought.

Life is like riding a bicycle. To keep your balance, you must keep moving.

I were better to be eaten to death with a rust than to be scoured to nothing with perpetual motion.

Genius goes around the world in its youth incessantly apologizing for having large feet. What wonder that later in life it should be inclined to raise those feet too swiftly to fools and bores.

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

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

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.

The art of living is more like wrestling than dancing.

Freedom is never dear at any price. It is the breath of life. What would a man not pay for living?

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

I think Bible principles are principles for life.

My dear brothers and sisters, the joy we feel has little to do with the circumstances of our lives and everything to do with the focus of our lives.

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.

Don’t part with your illusions. When they are gone, you may still exist, but you have ceased to live.

The only difference between death and taxes is that death doesn’t get worse every time Congress meets.

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.

The man who has no problems is out of the game.

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

So long as the memory of certain beloved friends lives in my heart, I shall say that life is good.

All my life affection has been showered upon me, and every forward step I have made has been taken in spite of it.

Life is divided into the horrible and the miserable.

The fact that our task is exactly commensurate with our life gives it the appearance of being infinite.

It is possible to provide security against other ills, but as far as death is concerned, we men live in a city without walls.

As far as I’m concerned, I’m a writer who’s writing books, and therefore, I don’t want to die. You’d miss the end of the book wouldn’t you? You can’t die with an unfinished book.

What pity is it That we can die, but once to serve our country.

One who does not know when to die, does not know how to live.

But friendship is precious, not only in the shade, but in the sunshine of life, and thanks to a benevolent arrangement the greater part of life is sunshine.

My career as Nipsey Hussle is based on my life as Ermias Asghedom.

If a man loses his reverence for any part of life, he will lose his reverence for all of life.

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