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.

It’s not morbid to talk about death. Most people don’t worry about death, they worry about a bad death.

Life is an exciting business, and most exciting when it is lived for others.

Absence and death are the same – only that in death there is no suffering.

If life were predictable it would cease to be life, and be without flavor.

My friends ask me if I want more kids, and I always say yes, I want more; it’s the best thing you can have in your life.

The secret of genius is to carry the spirit of the child into old age, which means never losing your enthusiasm.

Life isn’t meant to be easy. It’s hard to take being on the top – or on the bottom. I guess I’m something of a fatalist. You have to have a sense of history, I think, to survive some of these things… Life is one crisis after another.

People who don’t like my work say that the connections seem too arbitrary. But that’s how life is.

Mysterious love, uncertain treasure, hast thou more of pain or pleasure! Endless torments dwell about thee: Yet who would live, and live without thee!

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.

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.

The life of the dead is placed in the memory of the living.

It is not length of life, but depth of life.

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.

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

Searching is half the fun: life is much more manageable when thought of as a scavenger hunt as opposed to a surprise party.

Nine times out of ten, in the arts as in life, there is actually no truth to be discovered; there is only error to be exposed.

What the devil is the point of surviving, going on living, when it’s a drag? But you see, that’s what people do.

The worst enemy of life, freedom and the common decencies is total anarchy; their second worst enemy is total efficiency.

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

I do think there must be some kind of interaction between your living life and the life that goes on from here.

One science only will one genius fit; so vast is art, so narrow human wit.

Some desire is necessary to keep life in motion, and he whose real wants are supplied must admit those of fancy.

The God who gave us life, gave us liberty at the same time.

No man ever steps in the same river twice, for it’s not the same river and he’s not the same man.

I pass my life in preventing the storm from blowing down the tent, and I drive in the pegs as fast as they are pulled up.

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

I believe every human has a finite number of heartbeats. I don’t intend to waste any of mine.

I can think of nothing less pleasurable than a life devoted to pleasure.

All the time, I’ve felt that life is a wager and that I probably was getting more out of leading a bohemian existence as a writer than I would have if I didn’t.

My view is that at a younger age your optimism is more and you have more imagination etc. You have less bias.

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

For me, there are two types of people: the young and the experienced.

Towering genius disdains a beaten path. It seeks regions hitherto unexplored.

Death is just life’s next big adventure.

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

I am not young but I feel young. The day I feel old, I will go to bed and stay there. J’aime la vie! I feel that to live is a wonderful thing.

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

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.

Of life’s two chief prizes, beauty and truth, I found the first in a loving heart and the second in a laborer’s hand.

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.

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

It is better to live rich than to die rich.

With fools, there is no companionship. Rather than to live with men who are selfish, vain, quarrelsome, and obstinate, let a man walk alone.

Some old men, continually praise the time of their youth. In fact, you would almost think that there were no fools in their days, but unluckily they themselves are left as an example.

But I think there are a set of experiences that turn a potential writer into a working writer, and then there are places in your life were you start to recognize what you want to do.

Darn the wheel of the world! Why must it continually turn over? Where is the reverse gear?

The whole problem with the world is that fools and fanatics are always so certain of themselves, and wiser people so full of doubts.

Genius always finds itself a century too early.

A life spent making mistakes is not only more honorable, but more useful than a life spent doing nothing.

The last act is bloody, however pleasant all the rest of the play is: a little earth is thrown at last upon our head, and that is the end forever.

A youth, when at home, should be filial and, abroad, respectful to his elders. He should be earnest and truthful. He should overflow in love to all and cultivate the friendship of the good. When he has time and opportunity, after the performance of these things, he should employ them in polite studies.

The mass of men lead lives of quiet desperation. What is called resignation is confirmed desperation.

Old age is just a record of one’s whole life.

For life and death are one, even as the river and the sea are one.

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.

I don’t like it when people who are young act like they’re 40. That’s taking too much on. Putting up a shield and trying to act like you’re so mature or whatever – I don’t try to act mature. Some people might say I’m mature for my age, but it’s not something I’m trying to do, you know? I’m just me.

Genius, when young, is divine.

A man of genius has been seldom ruined but by himself.

The way to know life is to love many things.