I joyfully hasten to meet death. If it come before I have had opportunity to develop all my artistic faculties, it will come, my hard fate notwithstanding, too soon, and I should probably wish it later – yet even then I shall be happy, for will it not deliver me from a state of endless suffering?

I don’t know where I’m going from here, but I promise it won’t be boring.

This is not a bad life.

As men are not able to fight against death, misery, ignorance, they have taken it into their heads, in order to be happy, not to think of them at all.

Singing aloud leaves you with a sense of levity and contentedness.

Of course, to have money is just great because you can do what you think is important to you. I always was a rich person because money’s not related to happiness.

Eternal nothingness is fine if you happen to be dressed for it.

I have such incredible experiences in my life.

The child in you, like all children, loves to laugh, to be around people who can laugh at themselves and life. Children instinctively know that the more laughter we have in our lives, the better.

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.

The cost of a thing is the amount of what I will call life which is required to be exchanged for it, immediately or in the long run.

Being no bigot myself to any mode of worship, I am disposed to endulge the professors of Christianity in the church, that road to heaven which to them shall seem the most direct plainest easiest and least liable to exception.

How can a woman be expected to be happy with a man who insists on treating her as if she were a perfectly normal human being.

Human life is far more important than just getting to the top of a mountain.

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

The world has grown suspicious of anything that looks like a happily married life.

Precepts or maxims are of great weight; and a few useful ones on hand do more to produce a happy life than the volumes we can’t find.

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

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

The talent for being happy is appreciating and liking what you have, instead of what you don’t have.

My only fear is that I may live too long. This would be a subject of dread to me.

Once I knew only darkness and stillness… my life was without past or future… but a little word from the fingers of another fell into my hand that clutched at emptiness, and my heart leaped to the rapture of living.

No matter how prepared you think you are for the death of a loved one, it still comes as a shock, and it still hurts very deeply.

Dogmas are collective conceptual prisons. And the strange thing is that people love their prison cells because they give them a sense of security and a false sense of ‚I know.‘ Nothing has inflicted more suffering on humanity than its dogmas.

Except for the young or very happy, I can’t say I am sorry for anyone who dies.

Madame, all stories, if continued far enough, end in death, and he is no true-story teller who would keep that from you.

My mother was a public school teacher in Virginia, and we didn’t have any money, we just survived on happiness, on being a happy family.

I think there’s every reason this 21st century will be much happier.

To me, if life boils down to one thing, it’s movement. To live is to keep moving.

From the dust of the earth, from the common elementary fund, the Creator has made Homo sapiens. From the same material he has made every other creature, however noxious and insignificant to us. They are earth-born companions and our fellow mortals.

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

Our care should not be to have lived long as to have lived enough.

Maturity is a bitter disappointment for which no remedy exists, unless laughter could be said to remedy anything.

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

Sometimes I think it would be easier to avoid old age, to die young, but then you’d never complete your life, would you? You’d never wholly know you.

Life is an unanswered question, but let’s still believe in the dignity and importance of the question.

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.

I have been very happy in the House of Representatives.

Most people are happy being average. Most are happy being faceless in a sea of faces.

While there’s life, there’s hope.

The person who seeks all their applause from outside has their happiness in another’s keeping .

When good Americans die they go to Paris.

I pledge allegiance to the Christian flag, and to the Savior, for whose Kingdom it stands, one Savior, crucified, risen, and coming again, with life and liberty for all who believe.

Wealth, like happiness, is never attained when sought after directly. It comes as a by-product of providing a useful service.

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

How much pain they have cost us, the evils which have never happened.

I have lived long enough to satisfy both nature and glory.

You pray for rain, you gotta deal with the mud too. That’s a part of it.

The superior man is distressed by the limitations of his ability; he is not distressed by the fact that men do not recognize the ability that he has.

People gonna be they own individuals and have they own worlds and I can’t knock it.

Life loves to be taken by the lapel and told: ‚I’m with you kid. Let’s go.‘

It was a Greek tragedy. Nixon was fulfilling his own nature. Once it started it could not end otherwise.

Our country does not believe in the concept of your God and my God. We believe that all gods are one. We have different ways of accepting Him. All ways lead to Him.

Concern for man and his fate must always form the chief interest of all technical endeavors. Never forget this in the midst of your diagrams and equations.

I was willing to accept what I couldn’t change.

Even today we raise our hand against our brother… We have perfected our weapons, our conscience has fallen asleep, and we have sharpened our ideas to justify ourselves as if it were normal we continue to sow destruction, pain, death. Violence and war lead only to death.

Coincidence is God’s way of remaining anonymous.

When his life was ruined, his family killed, his farm destroyed, Job knelt down on the ground and yelled up to the heavens, ‚Why god? Why me?‘ and the thundering voice of God answered, ‚There’s just something about you that pisses me off.‘

A man is born alone and dies alone; and he experiences the good and bad consequences of his karma alone; and he goes alone to hell or the Supreme abode.

I had no bad moment in my relationship with Dortmund. Not one second.

I’m not afraid of death, but I’m in no hurry to die. I have so much I want to do first.