I’m here as a product of process of evolution, which doesn’t make very many exceptions. And which rates life relatively cheaply.

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.

He who is not courageous enough to take risks will accomplish nothing in life.

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

I know that war is very cruel and that life is harder when you aren’t able to live in the place you called home.

Life’s a rollercoaster. You’re up one minute; you’re down one minute. But who doesn’t like rollercoasters?

Everybody is going to have their critics. It’s easy to get discouraged in life.

People think, because we’re young, we aren’t complex, but that’s not true. We deal with life and love and broken hearts in the same way a woman a few years older might.

If you stop struggling, then you stop life.

A ratio of failures is built into the process of writing. The wastebasket has evolved for a reason.

Life is a journey. When we stop, things don’t go right.

True virtue is life under the direction of reason.

When we started, a lot of bands sounded really different from one another.

The only length of life that seems to satisfy the longings of the human heart is life everlasting.

As we advance in life it becomes more and more difficult, but in fighting the difficulties the inmost strength of the heart is developed.

When it’s your time, it is your time.

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.

I have rules for a lot of areas of my life. Love is not going to be one of them.

One life is all we have and we live it as we believe in living it. But to sacrifice what you are and to live without belief, that is a fate more terrible than dying.

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

We all want to win more, but it’s all about being blessed and embracing your blessings. We have life.

Our lifelong certainties about the world can be demolished in a single second.

This is not a bad life.

No one can outrun death. It will catch up to all of us eventually.

I believe every human has a finite number of heartbeats. I don’t intend to waste any of mine.

It is better to live rich than to die rich.

I don’t want to just revolve. I want to evolve. As a man, as a human, as a father, as a lover.

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 direction in which education starts a man will determine his future in life.

Life becomes harder for us when we live for others, but it also becomes richer and happier.

I no longer feel attracted to the well-made novel. I want to write the story that will zero in and give you intense, but not connected, moments of experience. I guess that’s the way I see life. People remake themselves bit by bit and do things they don’t understand.

What is my life if I am no longer useful to others.

For victory in life, we’ve got to keep focused on the goal, and the goal is Heaven.

Life is tragic. You are tiny and flawed and ignorant and weak, and everything else is huge, complex, and overwhelming.

I don’t know how to have a normal relationship because I try to act normal and love from a normal place and live a normal life, but there is sort of an abnormal magnifying glass, like telescope lens, on everything that happens.

My focus is to forget the pain of life. Forget the pain, mock the pain, reduce it. And laugh.

I would rather live my life as if there is a God and die to find out there isn’t, than live as if there isn’t and to die to find out that there is.

Youth is a wonderful thing. What a crime to waste it on children.

The more sand has escaped from the hourglass of our life, the clearer we should see through it.

We have the duty to protect the life of an unborn child.

It’s life isn’t it? You plow ahead and make a hit. And you plow on and someone passes you. Then someone passes them. Time levels.

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 only way to take sorrow out of death is to take love out of life.

My friends ask me if I want more kids, and I always say yes, I want more; it’s the best thing you can have in your life.

I’m 31 now. I think I’m beginning to understand what life is, what romance is, and what a relationship means.

Someday, the capitalist system will disappear in the United States, because no social class system has been eternal. One day, class societies will disappear.

Only a life lived for others is a life worthwhile.

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

Life loves the liver of it.

Human life is everywhere a state in which much is to be endured, and little to be enjoyed.

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

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

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

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.

I’m half living my life between reality and fantasy at all times.

If you cannot understand that there is something in man which responds to the challenge of this mountain and goes out to meet it, that the struggle is the struggle of life itself upward and forever upward, then you won’t see why we go.

‚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.

Where there is love there is life.

Parting is all we know of heaven, and all we need of hell.

What religion a man holds, to what race he belongs, these things are not important; the really important thing is this knowledge: the knowledge of God’s plan for men. For God has a plan, and that plan is evolution.

Change alone is unchanging.