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.

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.

Every parting gives a foretaste of death, every reunion a hint of the resurrection.

Step with care and great tact, and remember that Life’s a Great Balancing Act.

I’m here as a product of process of evolution, which doesn’t make very many exceptions. And which rates life relatively cheaply.

Children make your life important.

A man is ethical only when life, as such, is sacred to him, that of plants and animals as that of his fellow men, and when he devotes himself helpfully to all life that is in need of help.

Life is hard. After all, it kills you.

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

For time and the world do not stand still. Change is the law of life. And those who look only to the past or the present are certain to miss the future.

It is better to live rich than to die rich.

Life isn’t fair, but God is.

If you lose a big fight, it will worry you all of your life. It will plague you – until you get your revenge.

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.

And this, our life, exempt from public haunt, finds tongues in trees, books in the running brooks, sermons in stones, and good in everything.

The first forty years of life give us the text; the next thirty supply the commentary on it.

There is no more fatal blunderer than he who consumes the greater part of his life getting his living.

There is love enough in this world for everybody, if people will just look.

In each soul, God loves and partly saves the whole world which that soul sums up in an incommunicable and particular way.

Read no history: nothing but biography, for that is life without theory.

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?

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.

The world, as a rule, does not live on beaches and in country clubs.

If you had your life to live over again, do it overseas.

When it comes to life the critical thing is whether you take things for granted or take them with gratitude.

Accept the terrible responsibility of life with eyes wide open.

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

In India we only read about death, sickness, terrorism, crime.

Akron, Ohio, is my home. It will always be remembered. Akron, Ohio, is my life.

People of Berlin – people of the world – this is our moment. This is our time.

What an encouraging thought that Jesus – our beloved Husband – can find comfort in our lowly feeble gifts! Can this be, for it seems far too good to be true? May we then be willing to endure trials or even death itself if through these hardships we are assisted in bringing gladness to Immanuel’s heart.

Music is the melody whose text is the world.

I am afraid we must make the world honest before we can honestly say to our children that honesty is the best policy.

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.

I’m afraid that reason will triumph and that the world will become a place where anyone who doesn’t fit that will become unnecessary.

Music is the mediator between the spiritual and the sensual life.

Existence really is an imperfect tense that never becomes a present.

Life is warfare.

Biography lends to death a new terror.

The bird is powered by its own life and by its motivation.

Life is the childhood of our immortality.

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

There is no coming to consciousness without pain.

Old age is like a plane flying through a storm. Once you’re aboard, there’s nothing you can do.

Reality has a way of intruding. Reality eventually intrudes on everything.

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

I think life on Earth must be about more than just solving problems… It’s got to be something inspiring, even if it is vicarious.

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

The basic fact about human existence is not that it is a tragedy, but that it is a bore. It is not so much a war as an endless standing in line.

My life is not unlike Truman’s. I can’t go anywhere.

Our heart glows, and secret unrest gnaws at the root of our being. Dealing with the unconscious has become a question of life for us.

No book includes the entire world. It’s limited. And so it doesn’t seem like an aesthetic compromise to have to do that. There’s so much other material to write about.

While there’s life, there’s hope.

Courage is the price that life exacts for granting peace.

What would life be if we had no courage to attempt anything?

Each generation doubtless feels called upon to reform the world. Mine knows that it will not reform it, but its task is perhaps even greater. It consists in preventing the world from destroying itself.

Today I can declare my hope and declare it from the bottom of my heart that we will eventually see the time when that number of nuclear weapons is down to zero and the world is a much better place.

The happiness of this life depends less on what befalls you than the way in which you take it.

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.

In everyone’s life, at some time, our inner fire goes out. It is then burst into flame by an encounter with another human being. We should all be thankful for those people who rekindle the inner spirit.

The darkness is really out there. It’s not something that’s in my head, just. It’s in my work because it’s in the world.