In modern life nothing produces such an effect as a good platitude. It makes the whole world kin.

There is nothing permanent except change.

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

This isn’t life in the fast lane, it’s life in the oncoming traffic.

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.

Seventy percent of success in life is showing up.

The key to immortality is first living a life worth remembering.

There are two tragedies in life. One is to lose your heart’s desire. The other is to gain it.

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

I am prepared to meet my Maker. Whether my Maker is prepared for the great ordeal of meeting me is another matter.

Life cannot subsist in society but by reciprocal concessions.

Real life? Well, I just hope mine isn’t investigated. They might find that I don’t really exist – that I’m just a hologram.

Don’t be too timid and squeamish about your actions. All life is an experiment.

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

My life is not unlike Truman’s. I can’t go anywhere.

Sooner or later, I hate to break it to you, you’re gonna die, so how do you fill in the space between here and there? It’s yours. Seize your space.

Bread without flesh is a good diet, as on many botanical excursions I have proved. Tea also may easily be ignored. Just bread and water and delightful toil is all I need – not unreasonably much, yet one ought to be trained and tempered to enjoy life in these brave wilds in full independence of any particular kind of nourishment.

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

Fantasy is a necessary ingredient in living, it’s a way of looking at life through the wrong end of a telescope, and that enables you to laugh at life’s realities.

Ageing’s alright, better than the alternative, which is not being here.

The first forty years of life give us the text; the next thirty supply the commentary on it.

It is natural to die as to be born.

One who does not know when to die, does not know how to live.

The tragedy of life is what dies inside a man while he lives.

If life gives you limes, make margaritas.

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

Life has no meaning the moment you lose the illusion of being eternal.

Life isn’t fair, but God is.

In football, it’s the job of the player to play, the coach to coach, the official to officiate. Each guy is charged with upholding his end, nothing more. In golf, the player, coach and official are rolled into one, and they overlap completely. Golf really is the best microcosm of life – or at least the way life should be.

We all live with the objective of being happy; our lives are all different and yet the same.

I’m not trying to follow a set of rules and stuff. I’m just living my life.

My one regret in life is that I am not someone else.

Satisfaction consists in freedom from pain, which is the positive element of life.

There is a ‚sanctity‘ involved with bringing a child into this world: it is better than bombing one out of it.

Let man live at a distance from God, and the universe remains neutral or hostile to him. But let man believe in God, and immediately all around him the elements, even the irksome, of the inevitable organize themselves into a friendly whole, ordered to the ultimate success of life.

Life is short, the art long.

Our greatest happiness does not depend on the condition of life in which chance has placed us, but is always the result of a good conscience, good health, occupation, and freedom in all just pursuits.

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

Disease generally begins that equality which death completes.

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

My life is my argument.

For modes of faith let graceless zealots fight, His can’t be wrong whose life is in the right.

If a man had more than one life, I think a little hanging would not hurt this one; but after he is once dead, we cannot bring him back, no matter how sorry we may be; so the boy shall be pardoned.

If you don’t live your life, then who will?

The secret of success in life is for a man to be ready for his opportunity when it comes.

Obedience to God is the pathway to the life you really want to live.

There is only one failure in life possible, and that is not to be true to the best one knows.

It is not necessary that whilst I live I live happily; but it is necessary that so long as I live I should live honourably.

And die of nothing but a rage to live.

I have always reckoned the dignity of the republic of first importance and preferable to life.

Absence and death are the same – only that in death there is no suffering.

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

The world is very different now. For man holds in his mortal hands the power to abolish all forms of human poverty, and all forms of human life.

Why love if losing hurts so much? I have no answers anymore; only the life I have lived. The pain now is part of the happiness then.

The chief condition on which, life, health and vigor depend on, is action. It is by action that an organism develops its faculties, increases its energy, and attains the fulfillment of its destiny.

Everything happens to everybody sooner or later if there is time enough.

The cost of a thing is the amount of what I will call life which is required to be exchanged for it, immediately or in the long run.

This has been my life for many years; one role feeds the other.

Some people die at 25 and aren’t buried until 75.

Why are our days numbered and not, say, lettered?

Regarding life, the wisest men of all ages have judged alike: it is worthless.