In such a porcelain life, one likes to be sure that all is well lest one stumble upon one’s hopes in a pile of broken crockery.

A word is dead when it is said, some say. I say it just begins to live that day.

Being at ease with not knowing is crucial for answers to come to you.

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

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

I believe that a simple and unassuming manner of life is best for everyone, best both for the body and the mind.

Nothing in life is promised except death.

Life is an exciting business, and most exciting when it is lived for others.

The one charm about marriage is that it makes a life of deception absolutely necessary for both parties.

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.

Grief is the agony of an instant; the indulgence of grief the blunder of a life.

Youth is to all the glad season of life; but often only by what it hopes, not by what it attains, or what it escapes.

Most people get a fair amount of fun out of their lives, but on balance life is suffering, and only the very young or the very foolish imagine otherwise.

Passions are the gales of life.

No evil can happen to a good man, either in life or after death.

The care of human life and happiness, and not their destruction, is the first and only object of good government.

Death is not the worst that can happen to men.

My life has been very full.

If we don’t know life, how can we know death?

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.

Trust is the glue of life. It’s the most essential ingredient in effective communication. It’s the foundational principle that holds all relationships.

Every man has the right to risk his own life in order to preserve it. Has it ever been said that a man who throws himself out the window to escape from a fire is guilty of suicide?

Doctors will have more lives to answer for in the next world than even we generals.

We all get weary sometimes, and we tend to think that life is what makes us weary.

The most savage controversies are about matters as to which there is no good evidence either way.

We all gonna die eventually from something or other, but don’t be a wimp. Put up a good fight.

The courage of life is often a less dramatic spectacle than the courage of a final moment; but it is no less a magnificent mixture of triumph and tragedy.

I cannot discover that anyone knows enough to say definitely what is and what is not possible.

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.

We do not know what love is. We know the symptoms of it, the pleasure, the pain, the fear, the anxiety and so on. We try to solve the symptoms, which becomes a wandering in darkness. We spend our days and nights in this, and it is soon over in death.

I work very hard, and I play very hard. I’m grateful for life. And I live it – I believe life loves the liver of it. I live it.

It is only by risking our persons from one hour to another that we live at all. And often enough our faith beforehand in an uncertified result is the only thing that makes the result come true.

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.

I accept chaos, I’m not sure whether it accepts me.

It’s no exaggeration to say that the undecideds could go one way or another.

The purpose of our lives is to be happy.

I want to be relaxed in my personal life. I really don’t like to be hassled.

Life’s most persistent and urgent question is, ‚What are you doing for others?‘

Without exercise, I don’t feel like my head works right.

Our problem right now is that we’re so specialized that if the lights go out, there are a huge number of people who are not going to know what to do. But within every dystopia there’s a little utopia.

It is better to die than to preserve this life by incurring disgrace. The loss of life causes but a moment’s grief, but disgrace brings grief every day of one’s life.

Economic medicine that was previously meted out by the cupful has recently been dispensed by the barrel. These once unthinkable dosages will almost certainly bring on unwelcome after-effects. Their precise nature is anyone’s guess, though one likely consequence is an onslaught of inflation.

In war, you win or lose, live or die – and the difference is just an eyelash.

The uncertainty of parenting can bring up feelings in us that range from frustration to terror.

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

Men must live and create. Live to the point of tears.

Create a ladder of values and priorities in your life, reminding yourself of what really matters to you.

Life is a series of commas, not periods.

Life is tragic simply because the earth turns and the sun inexorably rises and sets, and one day, for each of us, the sun will go down for the last, last time.

While I thought that I was learning how to live, I have been learning how to die.

Do not take life too seriously. You will never get out of it alive.

How to gain, how to keep, how to recover happiness is in fact for most men at all times the secret motive of all they do, and of all they are willing to endure.

When I inspire myself, I want to spread the word because its important to be healthy. I don’t think they’re teaching us enough about that. I think we should eat better and exercise. Look who’s saying that – a guy who was 300 pounds – but I’m doing a lot better than I used to. I’m letting people know its important because it makes you feel better.

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

I left the woods for as good a reason as I went there. Perhaps it seemed to me that I had several more lives to live and could not spare any more time for that one.

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.

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.

Even a happy life cannot be without a measure of darkness, and the word happy would lose its meaning if it were not balanced by sadness. It is far better take things as they come along with patience and equanimity.

We are ready for any unforeseen event that may or may not occur.

Death is a fearful thing.

I don’t know what ‚normal‘ means, anyway.