Death is the king of this world: ‚Tis his park where he breeds life to feed him. Cries of pain are music for his banquet.

I think, often, people who run away are people who got into things most enthusiastically, and then they want more. They just demand more of life than what is happening in the moment. Sometimes this is a great mistake, as it’s always a good deal different than you expect it.

Hate and force cannot be in just a part of the world without having an effect on the rest of it.

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

The life which men praise and regard as successful is but one kind. Why should we exaggerate any one kind at the expense of the others?

We inhabit a universe that is characterized by diversity.

Science has explained nothing; the more we know the more fantastic the world becomes and the profounder the surrounding darkness.

Life in abundance comes only through great love.

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.

Life must be lived and curiosity kept alive. One must never, for whatever reason, turn his back on life.

There is never vulgarity in a whole truth, however commonplace. It may be unimportant or painful. It cannot be vulgar. Vulgarity is only in concealment of truth, or in affectation.

Life could be wonderful if people would leave you alone.

Life is hard. After all, it kills you.

Death most resembles a prophet who is without honor in his own land or a poet who is a stranger among his people.

The world is indebted for all triumphs which have been gained by reason and humanity over error and oppression.

I think the foundation of everything in my life is wonder.

I am in the world feeling my way to light ‚amid the encircling gloom.‘

The honor of a nation is its life.

Life belongs to the living, and he who lives must be prepared for changes.

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

The average age of the world’s greatest civilizations from the beginning of history has been about 200 years.

Believe that life is worth living and your belief will help create the fact.

Dost thou love life? Then do not squander time, for that is the stuff life is made of.

We all die, we all get sick, we all feel hunger and lust and pain, and therefore human life is consistent from one generation to the other. We all – most of us, anyway – want connections with other people and spend our lives looking for them.

If you die you’re completely happy and your soul somewhere lives on. I’m not afraid of dying. Total peace after death, becoming someone else is the best hope I’ve got.

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

I’m more of a realist when it comes to life, and I’d much rather my mother be in a spiritual place in Heaven than in a bed, sick, fighting for her life.

How did it get so late so soon? Its night before its afternoon. December is here before its June. My goodness how the time has flewn. How did it get so late so soon?

Why are our days numbered and not, say, lettered?

Life’s short. Anything could happen, and it usually does, so there is no point in sitting around thinking about all the ifs, ands and buts.

Our species needs, and deserves, a citizenry with minds wide awake and a basic understanding of how the world works.

The world is never quiet, even its silence eternally resounds with the same notes, in vibrations which escape our ears. As for those that we perceive, they carry sounds to us, occasionally a chord, never a melody.

I knew I belonged to the public and to the world, not because I was talented or even beautiful, but because I had never belonged to anything or anyone else.

Miracles are a retelling in small letters of the very same story which is written across the whole world in letters too large for some of us to see.

My father had died, and very swiftly, too, of cancer of the esophagus. He was 79. I am 61. In whatever kind of a ‚race‘ life may be, I have very abruptly become a finalist.

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.

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.

The true face of smoking is disease, death and horror – not the glamour and sophistication the pushers in the tobacco industry try to portray.

The best thing to hold onto in life is each other.

A chain is no stronger than its weakest link, and life is after all a chain.

You are doomed to make choices. This is life’s greatest paradox.

If my life was a movie, no one would believe it.

No man enjoys the true taste of life, but he who is ready and willing to quit it.

Often one postulates that a priori, all states are equally probable. This is not true in the world as we see it. This world is not correctly described by the physics which assumes this postulate.

When death comes it is never our tenderness that we repent from, but our severity.

The world is a stage, but the play is badly cast.

Violence has been Nicaragua’s most important export to the world.

The men who followed Him were unique in their generation. They turned the world upside down because their hearts had been turned right side up. The world has never been the same.

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

Apart from life, a strong constitution, and an abiding connection to the Thembu royal house, the only thing my father bestowed upon me at birth was a name, Rolihlahla.

My whole life has been one big improvisation.

There is no wealth but life.

I don’t think that faith, whatever you’re being faithful about, really can be scientifically explained. And I don’t want to explain this whole life business through truth, science. There’s so much mystery. There’s so much awe.

Death is just life’s next big adventure.

We are all born for love. It is the principle of existence, and its only end.

Neither should a ship rely on one small anchor, nor should life rest on a single hope.

You get one life. I’m going to embrace mine.

You must understand the whole of life, not just one little part of it. That is why you must read, that is why you must look at the skies, that is why you must sing and dance, and write poems and suffer and understand, for all that is life.

Seventy percent of success in life is showing up.

There are only the pursued, the pursuing, the busy and the tired.

Getting older is no problem. You just have to live long enough.