Death is one moment, and life is so many of them.

Guilt is perhaps the most painful companion of death.

If you stop struggling, then you stop life.

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

To me, comedy is just twisting reality. It’s commenting or observing or twisting life.

All you need in this life is ignorance and confidence, and then success is sure.

If we do discover a complete theory, it should be in time understandable in broad principle by everyone. Then we shall all, philosophers, scientists, and just ordinary people be able to take part in the discussion of why we and the universe exist.

The art is long, life is short.

There is an ecstasy that marks the summit of life, and beyond which life cannot rise. And such is the paradox of living, this ecstasy comes when one is most alive, and it comes as a complete forgetfulness that one is alive.

Wrinkles should merely indicate where smiles have been.

One can survive everything, nowadays, except death, and live down everything except a good reputation.

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

Death wasn’t part of God’s original plan for humanity, and the Bible calls death an enemy – the last enemy to be destroyed.

A squirrel dying in front of your house may be more relevant to your interests right now than people dying in Africa.

I don’t spend a lot of time thinking about dying, but I like to think that I’ve – if it did occur – that I would die peacefully and not make too much of a fuss about it.

Enlightenment is always there. Small enlightenment will bring great enlightenment. If you breathe in and are aware that you are alive – that you can touch the miracle of being alive – then that is a kind of enlightenment.

I argue thee that love is life. And life hath immortality.

Life loves to be taken by the lapel and told: ‚I’m with you kid. Let’s go.‘

The day which we fear as our last is but the birthday of eternity.

Each thing is of like form from everlasting and comes round again in its cycle.

I work very hard, and I play very hard. I’m grateful for life. And I live it – I believe life loves the liver of it. I live it.

Life would be tolerable but for its amusements.

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.

I can well conceive a man without hands, feet, head. But I cannot conceive man without thought; he would be a stone or a brute.

Woman, or more precisely put, perhaps, marriage, is the representative of life with which you are meant to come to terms.

Man is unable to see himself entirely unrelated to mankind, neither is he able to see mankind unrelated to life, nor life unrelated to the universe.

The boundaries which divide Life from Death are at best shadowy and vague. Who shall say where the one ends, and where the other begins?

We were born to die and we die to live. As seedlings of God, we barely blossom on earth; we fully flower in heaven.

It is best to rise from life as from a banquet, neither thirsty nor drunken.

Life has no meaning the moment you lose the illusion of being eternal.

If you love life, don’t waste time, for time is what life is made up of.

In such a porcelain life, one likes to be sure that all is well lest one stumble upon one’s hopes in a pile of broken crockery.

If I can put one touch of rosy sunset into the life of any man or woman, I shall feel that I have worked with God.

We love life, not because we are used to living but because we are used to loving.

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?

Life and death are one thread, the same line viewed from different sides.

Nature teaches us that tens of billions of light years may have passed, and life in all of its expressions has always been subjected to an incredible combination of matter and radiation.

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

We can be thankful to a friend for a few acres, or a little money; and yet for the freedom and command of the whole earth, and for the great benefits of our being, our life, health, and reason, we look upon ourselves as under no obligation.

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.

Modern science says: ‚The sun is the past, the earth is the present, the moon is the future.‘ From an incandescent mass we have originated, and into a frozen mass we shall turn. Merciless is the law of nature, and rapidly and irresistibly we are drawn to our doom.

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.

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.

Such is the state of life, that none are happy but by the anticipation of change: the change itself is nothing; when we have made it, the next wish is to change again.

One life is all we have and we live it as we believe in living it. But to sacrifice what you are and to live without belief, that is a fate more terrible than dying.

To live outside the law, you must be honest.

In that film, the man and the part met. As far as I’m concerned, that part is Greg’s for life. I’ve had many, many offers to turn it into musicals, into TV or stage plays, but I’ve always refused.

The true object of all human life is play. Earth is a task garden; heaven is a playground.

There is, indeed, nothing that so much seduces reason from vigilance, as the thought of passing life with an amiable woman.

We have been so successful in the past century at the art of living longer and staying alive that we have forgotten how to die. Too often we learn the hard way. As soon as the baby boomers pass pensionable age, their lesson will be harsher still.

Don’t be too timid and squeamish about your actions. All life is an experiment.

Life’s a fight. It’s a good fight of faith.

Man the individual consoles himself for his passing with the thought of the offspring or the works which he leaves behind.

It is in life as it is in ways, the shortest way is commonly the foulest, and surely the fairer way is not much about.

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

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.

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.

Life is hard. After all, it kills you.

Let us beware of saying that death is the opposite of life. The living being is only a species of the dead, and a very rare species.

Grief is the agony of an instant; the indulgence of grief the blunder of a life.

I have spent my life going from mania to mania. Somehow it has all paid off.