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

Which death is preferably to every other? ‚The unexpected‘.

In every parting there is an image of death.

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

You can’t connect the dots looking forward; you can only connect them looking backwards. So you have to trust that the dots will somehow connect in your future. You have to trust in something – your gut, destiny, life, karma, whatever. This approach has never let me down, and it has made all the difference in my life.

I believe that God put us in this jolly world to be happy and enjoy life.

Life is so short. I would rather sing one song than interpret the thousand.

No evil can happen to a good man, either in life or after death.

Genius goes around the world in its youth incessantly apologizing for having large feet. What wonder that later in life it should be inclined to raise those feet too swiftly to fools and bores.

You cannot find peace by avoiding life.

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.

Old age is like a plane flying through a storm. Once you’re aboard, there’s nothing you can do.

We are doomed to cling to a life even while we find it unendurable.

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.

We can easily forgive a child who is afraid of the dark; the real tragedy of life is when men are afraid of the light.

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 full of misery, loneliness, and suffering – and it’s all over much too soon.

Every loss of life is terrible.

Life is the fire that burns and the sun that gives light. Life is the wind and the rain and the thunder in the sky. Life is matter and is earth, what is and what is not, and what beyond is in Eternity.

I can do no other than be reverent before everything that is called life. I can do no other than to have compassion for all that is called life. That is the beginning and the foundation of all ethics.

For you to sleep well at night, the aesthetic, the quality, has to be carried all the way through.

Life’s most persistent and urgent question is, ‚What are you doing for others?‘

Life is all memory, except for the one present moment that goes by you so quickly you hardly catch it going.

The momentous thing in human life is the art of winning the soul to good or evil.

You can’t imagine parlor ballads drifting out of high-rise multi-towered buildings. That kind of music existed in a more timeless state of life.

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.

Almost everybody is born a genius and buried an idiot.

I don’t think that you can be prescriptive about anything, I mean, life is too complicated. Maybe there are novels where the author has not in the least thought about it in terms of film, which can be turned into good films.

The nicest thing for me is sleep, then at least I can dream.

Life levels all men. Death reveals the eminent.

As soon as there is life there is danger.

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

Life contains but two tragedies. One is not to get your heart’s desire; the other is to get it.

To not to have entirely wasted one’s life seems to be a worthy accomplishment, if only for myself.

I don’t expect to live forever, but I do intend to hang on as long as possible.

Over the years I’ve seen people lose a spouse and then withdraw and lose interest in life, and I believe we need to resist that.

Life affords no higher pleasure than that of surmounting difficulties, passing from one step of success to another, forming new wishes and seeing them gratified.

Without health life is not life; it is only a state of langour and suffering – an image of death.

The bird is powered by its own life and by its motivation.

Life is not a matter of holding good cards, but sometimes, playing a poor hand well.

Life is partly what we make it, and partly what it is made by the friends we choose.

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

If you have the opportunity to play this game of life you need to appreciate every moment. A lot of people don’t appreciate the moment until it’s passed.

Life is warfare.

By the time you’ve reached your sixties, you do know that one day you will die, and knowing that is at least the beginning of wisdom.

The measure of a life, after all, is not its duration, but its donation.

I believe life is an intelligent thing: that things aren’t random.

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

I look upon death to be as necessary to our constitution as sleep. We shall rise refreshed in the morning.

If a whole bunch of people want to make your life a living hell, they’re gonna do it.

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

Hope travels through, nor quits us when we die.

Growing old is like being increasingly penalized for a crime you haven’t committed.

Unbeing dead isn’t being alive.

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

We don’t get a chance to do that many things, and every one should be really excellent. Because this is our life. Life is brief, and then you die, you know? So this is what we’ve chosen to do with our life.

I have spent my life going from mania to mania. Somehow it has all paid off.

I sometimes wish I were suffering in a good cause, or risking my life for the good of others, instead of just being a gravely endangered patient.

Whoever thinks of going to bed before twelve o’clock is a scoundrel.

‚Pure experience‘ is the name I gave to the immediate flux of life which furnishes the material to our later reflection with its conceptual categories.

Life is nothing but a competition to be the criminal rather than the victim.