I live in a crazy time.

Time stays, we go.

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

Except during the nine months before he draws his first breath, no man manages his affairs as well as a tree does.

The love of life is necessary to the vigorous prosecution of any undertaking.

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

Life is short, the art long.

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

Society is at odds with itself.

For this generation, ours, life is nuclear survival, liberty is human rights, the pursuit of happiness is a planet whose resources are devoted to the physical and spiritual nourishment of its inhabitants.

Everything is political. I will never be a politician or even think political. Me just deal with life and nature. That is the greatest thing to me.

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

The human animal cannot be trusted for anything good except en masse. The combined thought and action of the whole people of any race, creed or nationality, will always point in the right direction.

Life and death are one thread, the same line viewed from different sides.

I have thought a sufficient measure of civilization is the influence of good women.

The middle class is so funny, it’s the class I know best, and it’s the class where you find the most pretension, so that’s what makes the middle classes so funny.

I decided, very early on, just to accept life unconditionally; I never expected it to do anything special for me, yet I seemed to accomplish far more than I had ever hoped. Most of the time it just happened to me without my ever seeking it.

The welfare of the people in particular has always been the alibi of tyrants.

In France there are, I think, less than one per cent of people who are too skinny.

My life has been one great big joke, a dance that’s walked a song that’s spoke, I laugh so hard I almost choke when I think about myself.

Liberty means responsibility. That is why most men dread it.

Between us and heaven or hell there is only life, which is the frailest thing in the world.

Never throughout history has a man who lived a life of ease left a name worth remembering.

In America today, we are nearer a final triumph over poverty than is any other land.

Music is always a commentary on society.

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.

The fundamental defect of fathers, in our competitive society, is that they want their children to be a credit to them.

Life without liberty is like a body without spirit.

Life is wasted on the living.

There’s an ecstatic side to writing. It’s like jazz. It just has a life.

The life of an uneducated man is as useless as the tail of a dog which neither covers its rear end, nor protects it from the bites of insects.

Censorship ends in logical completeness when nobody is allowed to read any books except the books that nobody reads.

No man lives without jostling and being jostled; in all ways he has to elbow himself through the world, giving and receiving offence.

There is no wealth but life.

Experience demands that man is the only animal which devours his own kind, for I can apply no milder term to the general prey of the rich on the poor.

If life gives you limes, make margaritas.

Do not take life too seriously. You will never get out of it alive.

Keep love in your heart. A life without it is like a sunless garden when the flowers are dead.

Without football, my life is worth nothing.

My favorite thing in life is writing about life, specifically the parts of life concerning love. Because, as far as I’m concerned, love is absolutely everything.

There is no doubt that life is given us, not to be enjoyed, but to be overcome; to be got over.

I believe that in every country the people themselves are more peaceably and liberally inclined than their governments.

To live a pure unselfish life, one must count nothing as one’s own in the midst of abundance.

Hatred is something peculiar. You will always find it strongest and most violent where there is the lowest degree of culture.

You cannot find peace by avoiding life.

There are some loony people in this world!

Humanity, you never had it to begin with.

The object of life is not to be on the side of the majority, but to escape finding oneself in the ranks of the insane.

Every loss of life is terrible.

Only a life lived for others is a life worthwhile.

If everyone demanded peace instead of another television set, then there’d be peace.

Confront a corpse at least once. The absolute absence of life is the most disturbing and challenging confrontation you will ever have.

Each life is made up of mistakes and learning, waiting and growing, practicing patience and being persistent.

To live is so startling it leaves little time for anything else.

I still live, I still think: I still have to live, for I still have to think.

To me, the black black woman is our essential mother, the blacker she is the more us she is and to see the hatred that is turned on her is enough to make me despair, almost entirely, of our future as a people.

If my doctor told me I had only six minutes to live, I wouldn’t brood. I’d type a little faster.

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

The saddest aspect of life right now is that science gathers knowledge faster than society gathers wisdom.

They are resilient children, but they are children, and as much as they need help to understand the hard truths in life, they also need what we all need – protection and love.

Far and away the best prize that life has to offer is the chance to work hard at work worth doing.