In seeking comfort, we generally find a quiet corner in life where there is a minimum of conflict, and then we are afraid to step out of that seclusion.

So thoroughly and sincerely are we compelled to live, reverencing our life, and denying the possibility of change. This is the only way, we say; but there are as many ways as there can be drawn radii from one centre. All change is a miracle to contemplate; but it is a miracle which is taking place every instant.

Except for the young or very happy, I can’t say I am sorry for anyone who dies.

It is natural to die as to be born.

Life’s a bit like mountaineering – never look down.

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.

History teaches that war begins when governments believe the price of aggression is cheap.

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.

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.

While there’s life, there’s hope.

Fresh sneakers are important on a man. It’s like a new pair of boxers or a new pair of socks.

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

There’s something about death that is comforting. The thought that you could die tomorrow frees you to appreciate your life now.

The price of anything is the amount of life you exchange for it.

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.

If we take the generally accepted definition of bravery as a quality which knows no fear, I have never seen a brave man. All men are frightened. The more intelligent they are, the more they are frightened.

Four hostile newspapers are more to be feared than a thousand bayonets.

There is no hope unmingled with fear, and no fear unmingled with hope.

It is as natural to die as to be born; and to a little infant, perhaps, the one is as painful as the other.

In remembering the appalling suffering of war on both sides, we recognise how precious is the peace we have built in Europe since 1945.

When the war of the giants is over the wars of the pygmies will begin.

I’m certainly well taken care of in terms of food and clothes.

I gave ‚em a sword. And they stuck it in, and they twisted it with relish. And I guess if I had been in their position, I’d have done the same thing.

Life could be wonderful if people would leave you alone.

Most of us experience a life full of wonderful moments and difficult moments. But for many of us, even when we are most joyful, there is fear behind our joy.

‚Bombing Afghanistan back into the Stone Age‘ was quite a favourite headline for some wobbly liberals. The slogan does all the work. But an instant’s thought shows that Afghanistan is being, if anything, bombed out of the Stone Age.

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.

Respect is one of life’s greatest treasures. I mean, what does it all add up to if you don’t have that?

Unbeing dead isn’t being alive.

War does not determine who is right – only who is left.

Poverty entails fear and stress and sometimes depression. It meets a thousand petty humiliations and hardships. Climbing out of poverty by your own efforts that is something on which to pride yourself but poverty itself is romanticized by fools.

One should take good care not to grow too wise for so great a pleasure of life as laughter.

Avoiding danger is no safer in the long run than outright exposure. The fearful are caught as often as the bold.

But I think there are a set of experiences that turn a potential writer into a working writer, and then there are places in your life were you start to recognize what you want to do.

Our truest life is when we are in dreams awake.

There is no love of life without despair of life.

My fear was not of death itself, but a death without meaning.

Heaven gives us hope and makes our present burdens easier to bear.

This life, which had been the tomb of his virtue and of his honour, is but a walking shadow; a poor player, that struts and frets his hour upon the stage, and then is heard no more: it is a tale told by an idiot, full of sound and fury, signifying nothing.

I never felt settled or calm. You can’t really commit to life when you feel that.

The only thing I’m afraid of is bees. I don’t like bees. I’m allergic to them.

Music is the mediator between the spiritual and the sensual life.

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.

There’s two sorts of fear: one you embrace and one you should listen to and turn the other way.

The main rule to me is to honor God with your life. To life a life of integrity. Not be selfish. You know, help others. But that’s really the essence of the Christian faith.

An unused life is an early death.

War against a foreign country only happens when the moneyed classes think they are going to profit from it.

The first duty of man is to conquer fear; he must get rid of it, he cannot act till then.

Old age is like everything else. To make a success of it, you’ve got to start young.

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

Collective fear stimulates herd instinct, and tends to produce ferocity toward those who are not regarded as members of the herd.

Life without love is like a tree without blossoms or fruit.

Is life not a thousand times too short for us to bore ourselves?

When life is too easy for us, we must beware or we may not be ready to meet the blows which sooner or later come to everyone, rich or poor.

Just as courage imperils life, fear protects it.

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

Death most resembles a prophet who is without honor in his own land or a poet who is a stranger among his people.

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

In 1949, China declared independence – an event known in Western discourse as ‚the loss of China‘ in the U.S. – with bitter recriminations and conflict over who was responsible for that loss.

I’m not that keen on the idea of being unconscious.

Life’s a fight. It’s a good fight of faith.