I love sleep. My life has the tendency to fall apart when I’m awake, you know?

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

Even with all the advantages of retrospect, and a lot of witnesses dead and gone, you can’t make your life look as if you intended it or you were consistent. All you can show is how you dealt with various hands.

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

Fiction is like a spider’s web, attached ever so slightly perhaps, but still attached to life at all four corners. Often the attachment is scarcely perceptible.

Life well spent is long.

We never live; we are always in the expectation of living.

Acting is just a way of making a living, the family is life.

I’m half living my life between reality and fantasy at all times. It’s best not to ask questions and just enjoy.

Life isn’t fair, but God is.

Only a life lived for others is a life worthwhile.

Actor’s life is very long.

Enthusiasm is the most important thing in life.

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

The loss of life will be irreplaceable.

Your life is like a play with several acts. Some of the characters who enter have short roles to play, others, much larger. Some are villains and others are good guys. But all of them are necessary; otherwise, they wouldn’t be in the play. Embrace them all, and move on to the next act.

What keeps me up at night? Anxiety. Anxiety, the inability to go to sleep, it’s quite literally that.

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

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

If you had your life to live over again, do it overseas.

The good parts of a book may be only something a writer is lucky enough to overhear or it may be the wreck of his whole damn life and one is as good as the other.

If you stop struggling, then you stop life.

In business or in life, don’t follow the wagon tracks too closely.

I have a feeling that I make a very good friend, and I’m a good mother, and a good sister, and a good citizen. I am involved in life itself – all of it. And I have a lot of energy and a lot of nerve.

Everything has been figured out, except how to live.

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.

The honor of a nation is its life.

Only those are fit to live who are not afraid to die.

In every parting there is an image of death.

I just have an enthusiasm for life.

Basically, when you get to my age, you’ll really measure your success in life by how many of the people you want to have love you actually do love you.

It is foolish and wrong to mourn the men who died. Rather we should thank God that such men lived.

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.

When you cease to make a contribution, you begin to die.

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

For me life is continuously being hungry. The meaning of life is not simply to exist, to survive, but to move ahead, to go up, to achieve, to conquer.

Although the life of a person is in a land full of thorns and weeds, there is always a space in which the good seed can grow. You have to trust God.

Once you fully apprehend the vacuity of a life without struggle, you are equipped with the basic means of salvation.

The wise man does not expose himself needlessly to danger, since there are few things for which he cares sufficiently; but he is willing, in great crises, to give even his life – knowing that under certain conditions it is not worthwhile to live.

Life in abundance comes only through great love.

It is a common experience that a problem difficult at night is resolved in the morning after the committee of sleep has worked on it.

Life is short, the art long.

A word is dead when it is said, some say. I say it just begins to live that day.

The art of living is more like wrestling than dancing.

The figure a poem makes. It begins in delight and ends in wisdom… in a clarification of life – not necessarily a great clarification, such as sects and cults are founded on, but in a momentary stay against confusion.

There is something feeble and a little contemptible about a man who cannot face the perils of life without the help of comfortable myths.

Life is far too important a thing ever to talk seriously about.

There is only one thing in life worse than being talked about, and that is not being talked about.

This life, which had been the tomb of his virtue and of his honour, is but a walking shadow; a poor player, that struts and frets his hour upon the stage, and then is heard no more: it is a tale told by an idiot, full of sound and fury, signifying nothing.

Our life is frittered away by detail… simplify, simplify.

Hope travels through, nor quits us when we die.

Religion was instituted to make us happy in this life and in the other. What must we do to be happy in the life to come? Be just.

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

A man builds a fine house; and now he has a master, and a task for life: he is to furnish, watch, show it, and keep it in repair, the rest of his days.

A life is not important except in the impact it has on other lives.

Life is as tedious as twice-told tale, vexing the dull ear of a drowsy man.

Life loves the liver of it.

Keep in mind that no matter how perfectly you get your life in order, you will never be rid of all your problems. Problems are a way of life, always have been, always will be. But how you elect to view those problems is all up to you.

There is an ecstasy that marks the summit of life, and beyond which life cannot rise. And such is the paradox of living, this ecstasy comes when one is most alive, and it comes as a complete forgetfulness that one is alive.

Mendacity is a system that we live in. Liquor is one way out an death’s the other.

You have to take risks. We will only understand the miracle of life fully when we allow the unexpected to happen.