I think if we didn’t contradict ourselves, it would be awfully boring. It would be tedious to be alive.

This soul, or life within us, by no means agrees with the life outside us. If one has the courage to ask her what she thinks, she is always saying the very opposite to what other people say.

Had I pursued my education long enough to learn all the conventional dos and don’ts of starting a business, I often wonder how different my life and career might have been.

Life consists in what a man is thinking of all day.

It’s pretty intense writing about my own life, my own struggles.

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.

I make preparations both to live and to die every day, but with the emphasis on not dying, and on acting as if I was going to carry on living.

I’ve been afraid of people playing their life away with too many toys.

If you’re bored with life – you don’t get up every morning with a burning desire to do things – you don’t have enough goals.

To do the same thing over and over again is not only boredom: it is to be controlled by rather than to control what you do.

Life is thickly sown with thorns, and I know no other remedy than to pass quickly through them. The longer we dwell on our misfortunes, the greater is their power to harm us.

One always dies too soon or too late. And yet, life is there, finished: the line is drawn, and it must all be added up. You are nothing other than your life.

There are only the pursued, the pursuing, the busy and the tired.

It matters not how a man dies, but how he lives. The act of dying is not of importance, it lasts so short a time.

The secret of life is honesty and fair dealing. If you can fake that, you’ve got it made.

Most of one’s life is one prolonged effort to prevent oneself thinking.

Life opens up opportunities to you, and you either take them or you stay afraid of taking them.

There is always a present and extant life, be it better or worse, which all combine to uphold.

How did it get so late so soon? Its night before its afternoon. December is here before its June. My goodness how the time has flewn. How did it get so late so soon?

To be renewed is everything. What more could one ask for than to have one’s youth back again?

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.

This has always been my life and no one else’s, and that’s how it’s always been since the day I came in it.

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

Mars is the only place in the solar system where it’s possible for life to become multi-planetarian.

I can well conceive a man without hands, feet, head. But I cannot conceive man without thought; he would be a stone or a brute.

I love life because what more is there?

The well bred contradict other people. The wise contradict themselves.

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

Censorship is the tool of those who have the need to hide actualities from themselves and from others. Their fear is only their inability to face what is real, and I can’t vent any anger against them; I only feel this appalling sadness. Somewhere in their upbringing, they were shielded against the total facts of our existence.

We were born to die and we die to live. As seedlings of God, we barely blossom on earth; we fully flower in heaven.

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.

The universe may have a purpose, but nothing we know suggests that, if so, this purpose has any similarity to ours.

I argue thee that love is life. And life hath immortality.

Life was always a matter of waiting for the right moment to act.

Life isn’t fair, but God is.

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

Money and investing can be complex, confusing, and often boring subjects.

My life is a struggle.

Virtuous people often revenge themselves for the constraints to which they submit by the boredom which they inspire.

If I shall exist eternally, how shall I exist tomorrow?

Someone has to die in order that the rest of us should value life more.

My life has been long, and believing that life loves the liver of it, I have dared to try many things, sometimes trembling, but daring still.

You may say, ‚Well, dragons don’t exist.‘ It’s, like, yes they do – the category ‚predator‘ and the category ‚dragon‘ are the same category. It absolutely exists. It’s a superordinate category. It exists absolutely more than anything else. In fact, it really exists.

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

Life is an ordeal, albeit an exciting one, but I wouldn’t trade it for the good old days of poverty and obscurity.

We’re a blip in the existence of the universe, and we’re constantly trying to pull each other down. Not doing things to help each other.

What do you want a meaning for? Life is a desire, not a meaning.

No one can pass through life, any more than he can pass through a bit of country, without leaving tracks behind, and those tracks may often be helpful to those coming after him in finding their way.

In a magazine, one can get – from cover to cover – 15 to 20 different ideas about life and how to live it.

Life is a succession of lessons which must be lived to be understood. All is riddle, and the key to a riddle is another riddle.

The basic fact about human existence is not that it is a tragedy, but that it is a bore. It is not so much a war as an endless standing in line.

The devil has put a penalty on all things we enjoy in life. Either we suffer in health or we suffer in soul or we get fat.

The true object of all human life is play. Earth is a task garden; heaven is a playground.

Foolish men imagine that because judgment for an evil thing is delayed, there is no justice; but only accident here below. Judgment for an evil thing is many times delayed some day or two, some century or two, but it is sure as life, it is sure as death.

Modern science says: ‚The sun is the past, the earth is the present, the moon is the future.‘ From an incandescent mass we have originated, and into a frozen mass we shall turn. Merciless is the law of nature, and rapidly and irresistibly we are drawn to our doom.

The end of life is to be like God, and the soul following God will be like Him.

Every man’s life ends the same way. It is only the details of how he lived and how he died that distinguish one man from another.

Unbeing dead isn’t being alive.

As soon as there is life there is danger.

There are two means of refuge from the miseries of life: music and cats.

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