I expected to die. At no time before the trial did I expect to escape with my life. Yet being executed in the gas chamber did not necessarily mean defeat. It could be one more step to bring the community to a higher level of consciousness.

Wealthy men can’t live in an island that is encircled by poverty. We all breathe the same air. We must give a chance to everyone, at least a basic chance.

No one can outrun death. It will catch up to all of us eventually.

If he have faith, the believer cannot be restrained. He betrays himself. He breaks out. He confesses and teaches this gospel to the people at the risk of life itself.

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

Those who have been writing literature have not been writing life.

There’s no way to remove the observer – us – from our perceptions of the world.

You will never be happy if you continue to search for what happiness consists of. You will never live if you are looking for the meaning of life.

It may be, it just may be, that life as we know it with its humanity is more unique than many have thought.

We conceal it from ourselves in vain – we must always love something. In those matters seemingly removed from love, the feeling is secretly to be found, and man cannot possibly live for a moment without it.

He who fears being conquered is sure of defeat.

But men must know, that in this theatre of man’s life it is reserved only for God and angels to be lookers on.

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

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.

Of all acts of man repentance is the most divine. The greatest of all faults is to be conscious of none.

To live is to suffer, to survive is to find some meaning in the suffering.

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.

I have a big gay and lesbian following and they’ve been very loyal and kind to me.

Art is parasitic on life, just as criticism is parasitic on art.

Nobody, as long as he moves about among the chaotic currents of life, is without trouble.

An unused life is an early death.

The greatest destroyer of peace is abortion because if a mother can kill her own child, what is left for me to kill you and you to kill me? There is nothing between.

Life begins on the other side of despair.

Here at home, when Americans were standing in long lines to give blood after the attack on the World Trade Center and the Pentagon, we squandered an obvious opportunity to make service a noble cause again, and rekindle an American spirit of community.

There is a ‚sanctity‘ involved with bringing a child into this world: it is better than bombing one out of it.

It is not clear that intelligence has any long-term survival value.

To be a Negro in this country and to be relatively conscious is to be in a rage almost all the time.

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.

There is only one failure in life possible, and that is not to be true to the best one knows.

Many people are alive but don’t touch the miracle of being alive.

Where there is love there is life.

Life is like riding a bicycle. To keep your balance, you must keep moving.

Any of us can be happy and have a good attitude when everything is going our way. But I believe it’s the real test of your character and of your faith to say, ‚Things are not going our way, but I’m still being good to people; I’m still attending church; I still have a good attitude.‘

I didn’t die young. So I am very lucky. There are other artists and people that didn’t survive certain things… people can imagine that I did the most dangerous, and I did the worst… for many reasons, I shouldn’t be here.

Art’s everything we hope life would be, a lot of times.

It is true that we are weak and sick and ugly and quarrelsome but if that is all we ever were, we would millenniums ago have disappeared from the face of the earth.

He only earns his freedom and his life Who takes them every day by storm.

Wealth is the ability to fully experience life.

Death and life have their determined appointments; riches and honors depend upon heaven.

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

The art of living is more like wrestling than dancing.

There are disasters that happen – Hurricane Harvey came up, and you had people self-organizing through the community and getting in boats and driving around rescuing people coordinated ad hoc through this network. That’s not a media function.

Life is one grand, sweet song, so start the music.

My one regret in life is that I am not someone else.

A life without adventure is likely to be unsatisfying, but a life in which adventure is allowed to take whatever form it will is sure to be short.

Life is a matter of really tough choices.

Regarding life, the wisest men of all ages have judged alike: it is worthless.

There is nothing more tragic than to find an individual bogged down in the length of life, devoid of breadth.

The life so short, the craft so long to learn.

He not busy being born is busy dying.

The ‚I think‘ which Kant said must be able to accompany all my objects, is the ‚I breathe‘ which actually does accompany them.

One day it will be over, and I don’t care.

Chaos often breeds life, when order breeds habit.

It is the spectator, and not life, that art really mirrors.

Life is not accumulation, it is about contribution.

It is natural to die as to be born.

Our character is not so much the product of race and heredity as of those circumstances by which nature forms our habits, by which we are nurtured and live.

Death to me means nothing as long as I can die fast.

Judging whether life is or is not worth living amounts to answering the fundamental question of philosophy.

Life’s tragedy is that we get old too soon and wise too late.

There is nothing so strong or safe in an emergency of life as the simple truth.