Human life is everywhere a state in which much is to be endured, and little to be enjoyed.

Loving people live in a loving world. Hostile people live in a hostile world. Same world.

I make preparations both to live and to die every day, but with the emphasis on not dying, and on acting as if I was going to carry on living.

You must keep raising this game to higher and higher levels, as on the pool table – mastering eventually the psychological angles. Your playing is a pleasure, all the way to the end, to death, when the game is over.

That it will never come again is what makes life sweet.

It’s a lot of fun to fight.

We have lost contact with reality, the simplicity of life.

Endurance is nobler than strength, and patience than beauty.

One secret of success in life is for a man to be ready for his opportunity when it comes.

I want to destroy ownership in order that possession and enjoyment may be raised to the highest point in every section of the community.

I should have no objection to go over the same life from its beginning to the end: requesting only the advantage authors have, of correcting in a second edition the faults of the first.

Those who forget good and evil and seek only to know the facts are more likely to achieve good than those who view the world through the distorting medium of their own desires.

To be a real philosopher all that is necessary is to hate some one else’s type of thinking.

For modes of faith let graceless zealots fight, His can’t be wrong whose life is in the right.

When I was a boy we didn’t wake up with Vietnam and have Cyprus for lunch and the Congo for dinner.

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

There are only two tragedies in life: one is not getting what one wants, and the other is getting it.

The universe is not required to be in perfect harmony with human ambition.

He who would pass his declining years with honor and comfort, should, when young, consider that he may one day become old, and remember when he is old, that he has once been young.

Death is no more than passing from one room into another. But there’s a difference for me, you know. Because in that other room I shall be able to see.

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

Actor’s life is very long.

I’ve been running a full marathon every year for more than 20 years, and my record is getting worse. Getting older, getting worse. It’s natural.

Life is a tragedy when seen in close-up, but a comedy in long-shot.

A man ought to read just as inclination leads him, for what he reads as a task will do him little good.

Life was always a matter of waiting for the right moment to act.

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

There is no king who has not had a slave among his ancestors, and no slave who has not had a king among his.

I was always very curious as a young man about why older writers who I met seemed so indifferent to what was going on, whereas I, in my 20s, was reading everything. Everything seemed important. But they were only interested in the writers they admired when they were young, and I didn’t understand it then, but now, now I understand it.

To understand the nature of the people one must be a prince, and to understand the nature of the prince, one must be of the people.

Death is a fearful thing.

In the course of history, men come to see that iron necessity is neither iron nor necessary.

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

There are no big problems, there are just a lot of little problems.

The thing I enjoyed most were visits from children. They did not want public office.

Without pain, there would be no suffering, without suffering we would never learn from our mistakes. To make it right, pain and suffering is the key to all windows, without it, there is no way of life.

There is no unique picture of reality.

I feel like the way I was raised was to be able to see through all the titles in this world – from religion to race.

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.

What’s real freedom? Real freedom is being able to not have my way and still be just as happy as if I did.

I’ve watched a lot of people who became famous who completely change and I think it’s because they tend to believe all the hype that’s out there. I don’t think there’s that much hype about me.

I want to stand as close to the edge as I can without going over. Out on the edge you see all the kinds of things you can’t see from the center.

You can’t have everything. Where would you put it?

What is normal? Normal was yesterday. If you lose a leg, one day you’re hopping around on one leg, so you know the difference.

The universe is wider than our views of it.

Children are all foreigners.

A man lives by believing something: not by debating and arguing about many things.

If I make music and people hate it, you know, whatever. I’ll die someday, and one day, they will too.

The hardest thing to see is what is in front of your eyes.

I never get too high on my stardom or what I can do.

I, personally, think there is a really danger of taking food too seriously. Food should be part of the bigger picture.

Everybody’s youth is a dream, a form of chemical madness.

Let us all remember this: one cannot proclaim the Gospel of Jesus without the tangible witness of one’s life.

Change is the law of life. And those who look only to the past or present are certain to miss the future.

This is the highest wisdom that I own; freedom and life are earned by those alone who conquer them each day anew.

Change alone is unchanging.

There will always be something to ruin our lives, it all depends on what or which finds us first. We are always ripe and ready to be taken.

Life is what happens while you are busy making other plans.

I mean, I feel like you get more bees with honey. But that doesn’t mean I don’t get frustrated in my life.

The internal machinery of life, the chemistry of the parts, is something beautiful. And it turns out that all life is interconnected with all other life.

He that is giddy thinks the world turns round.