In every phenomenon the beginning remains always the most notable moment.

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.

How oft the sight of means to do ill deeds makes ill deeds done!

Our care should not be to have lived long as to have lived enough.

Sometimes I just sit still and enjoy God’s presence.

No man ever prayed heartily without learning something.

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.

To the people I forgot, you weren’t on my mind for some reason and you probably don’t deserve any thanks anyway.

Sleep is the interest we have to pay on the capital which is called in at death; and the higher the rate of interest and the more regularly it is paid, the further the date of redemption is postponed.

It is a great piece of folly to attempt to make anything out of my early life.

I have learned to know God. I have recast my social belief… All my admirers are married; most of my friends are dead; and I stand with all the world before me, where to choose a path to make in it.

War has always been the grand sagacity of every spirit which has grown too inward and too profound; its curative power lies even in the wounds one receives.

For every moment of triumph, for every instance of beauty, many souls must be trampled.

Remembrance and reflection how allied. What thin partitions divides sense from thought.

I am rather inclined to silence.

In the End, we will remember not the words of our enemies, but the silence of our friends.

Dying is one of the few things that can be done as easily lying down.

We might as well die as to go on living like this.

Great indeed is the sublimity of the Creative, to which all beings owe their beginning and which permeates all heaven.

I do sometimes look back at things I’ve written in the past, and think, ‚I just don’t remember being the person who wrote that.‘

When we tell the story of our own conversion, I would have it done with great sorrow, remembering what we used to be, and with great joy and gratitude, remembering how little we deserve these things.

One has to pay dearly for immortality; one has to die several times while one is still alive.

Myth and fairy-story must, as all art, reflect and contain in solution elements of moral and religious truth (or error), but not explicit, not in the known form of the primary ‚real‘ world.

How happy is the blameless vestal’s lot? The world forgetting, by the world forgot.

A tomb now suffices him for whom the whole world was not sufficient.

Study the past, if you would divine the future.

The first of April is the day we remember what we are the other 364 days of the year.

I don’t dislike any of my exes. If I took time to form a relationship, it’s gonna hurt when we move on, but are you puttin‘ White-Out over all that beautiful time together? That was real time in your life. It’s connected to where you are today.

Death obsesses me, yes it does. I can’t really understand why it doesn’t obsess everyone – I think it does really, I’m just a little more out about it.

It is the superfluous things for which men sweat, – superfluous things that wear our togas theadbare, that force us to grow old in camp, that dash us upon foreign shores.

The world is a looking glass and gives back to every man the reflection of his own face.

I like the silent church before the service begins, better than any preaching.

If you don’t know your full-throttle history, the whole story of how you came to where you are, it’s kind of hard to put things together.

We moralize among ruins.

I let people fill in the blanks on their own. If they want to think about their ex, that’s fine. If they want to think about maybe who one of my exes is, then that’s fine. And it might not be right, because I’m the only one who knows what these songs are really about. It’s the one shred of privacy I have in the matter.

Every President I think I’ve ever known, except Truman, has thought they didn’t quite get done what they wanted done. And toward the end of their Administrations, they were disappointed and wished they had done some things differently.

Whoever thinks a faultless piece to see, Thinks what ne’er was, nor is, nor e’er shall be.

Life levels all men. Death reveals the eminent.

The good times of today, are the sad thoughts of tomorrow.

When you are sorrowful look again in your heart, and you shall see that in truth you are weeping for that which has been your delight.

The pause between the errors and trials of the day and the hopes of the night.

I have wondered about time all my life.

Sometimes we look back and 10 years from now we think, ‚Boy, those were great old days.‘ Well, you know, we’re living in the good old days.

I would like to be a one-man multinational fashion phenomenon.

Life is pleasant. Death is peaceful. It’s the transition that’s troublesome.

‚Thursday‘ is a conceptual album. Whatever that situation was, I spent the whole album focusing on that situation.

I don’t want to be too critical of what other people do, but when people go back to do the same thing that they did, I’m completely confused. I’m like, ‚Didn’t you make that movie already?‘ I’ve been very fortunate, and I’m well taken care of, so the least I can do is try to go forward.

Yesterday’s just a memory, tomorrow is never what it’s supposed to be.

I wish I had known when I was in the White House what I know now about the Third World.

Memories are the key not to the past, but to the future.

A minute of thought is greater than an hour of talk.

I think that God, in creating man, somewhat overestimated his ability.

Love is like war: easy to begin but very hard to stop.

We have lived long enough to experience the hollowness of earth and the rottenness of all carnal promises.

Without stirring abroad, One can know the whole world; Without looking out of the window One can see the way of heaven. The further one goes The less one knows.

You don’t have the same mentality as you did five years ago – even one year. People are always changing, and I believe that everyone deserves the space to change and for people to recognize their change.

It seems, in fact, as though the second half of a man’s life is made up of nothing, but the habits he has accumulated during the first half.

Change is the law of life. And those who look only to the past or present are certain to miss the future.

Sometimes, I want to talk on a song and be angry, because I am angry. Then there’s always a part of me that remembers that this record lives past my being angry, and so do I really want to be angry about that? Is that feeling going to have longevity?

So long as the universe had a beginning, we could suppose it had a creator. But if the universe is really completely self-contained, having no boundary or edge, it would have neither beginning nor end: it would simply be. What place, then, for a creator?

Life imitates art far more than art imitates Life.