It may be, it just may be, that life as we know it with its humanity is more unique than many have thought.

As a well-spent day brings happy sleep, so a life well spent brings happy death.

Life doesn’t imitate art, it imitates bad television.

You’re never as good as everyone tells you when you win, and you’re never as bad as they say when you lose.

One can survive everything, nowadays, except death, and live down everything except a good reputation.

Which death is preferably to every other? ‚The unexpected‘.

I would rather be able to appreciate things I can not have than to have things I am not able to appreciate.

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

Courage is almost a contradiction in terms. It means a strong desire to live taking the form of readiness to die.

There are many things that happen every day that we could murmur about if we let ourselves go there. But they really aren’t worth the effort it takes to get upset and gripe about it.

We are here and it is now. Further than that, all human knowledge is moonshine.

Each man is always in the middle of the surface of the earth and under the zenith of his own hemisphere, and over the centre of the earth.

Players today moan about the number of games, but when you’re young, you can’t play enough.

I think, often, people who run away are people who got into things most enthusiastically, and then they want more. They just demand more of life than what is happening in the moment. Sometimes this is a great mistake, as it’s always a good deal different than you expect it.

Mankind must put an end to war before war puts an end to mankind.

Life must be lived and curiosity kept alive. One must never, for whatever reason, turn his back on life.

Life is a progress from want to want, not from enjoyment to enjoyment.

Even with all of the things that are so awful, if you walk into your yard and stay there looking at almost anything for five minutes, you will be stunned by how marvelous life is and how incredibly lucky we are to have it.

Neither a man nor a crowd nor a nation can be trusted to act humanely or to think sanely under the influence of a great fear.

Life is the childhood of our immortality.

To me a lush carpet of pine needles or spongy grass is more welcome than the most luxurious Persian rug.

Life is not a series of gig lamps symmetrically arranged; life is a luminous halo, a semi-transparent envelope surrounding us from the beginning of consciousness to the end.

The mass of men lead lives of quiet desperation. What is called resignation is confirmed desperation.

Security is mostly a superstition. It does not exist in nature, nor do the children of men as a whole experience it. Avoiding danger is no safer in the long run than outright exposure. Life is either a daring adventure, or nothing.

The dinosaurs aren’t remembered for much more than their bones. When humanity’s gone, what do we give to this little planet that we’re on, and what could we do collectively, removing the pride?

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.

You will never be happy if you continue to search for what happiness consists of. You will never live if you are looking for the meaning of life.

I have a hard time figuring out what kind of box to put me in, too, because I don’t know exactly what’s going on around me or why. But I need to stay outside of boxes because then I can look at what’s inside of them without being part of them.

Life in abundance comes only through great love.

Do not fear to be eccentric in opinion, for every opinion now accepted was once eccentric.

I’ve been fortunate to have had the life I had prior to Hollywood. I wasn’t starving; I was going to eat the next day.

Every man is more than just himself; he also represents the unique, the very special and always significant and remarkable point at which the world’s phenomena intersect, only once in this way, and never again.

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

Nothing is enough for the man to whom enough is too little.

When a team takes ownership of its problems, the problem gets solved. It is true on the battlefield, it is true in business, and it is true in life.

For me life is continuously being hungry. The meaning of life is not simply to exist, to survive, but to move ahead, to go up, to achieve, to conquer.

The figure a poem makes. It begins in delight and ends in wisdom… in a clarification of life – not necessarily a great clarification, such as sects and cults are founded on, but in a momentary stay against confusion.

To walk through the ruined cities of Germany is to feel an actual doubt about the continuity of civilization.

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.

It is not how much we have, but how much we enjoy, that makes happiness.

The worst sin toward our fellow creatures is not to hate them, but to be indifferent to them: that’s the essence of inhumanity.

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

My life is mine to remember.

I don’t know if I particularly want to be remembered for anything. I personally do not think I’m a great gift to the world. I’ve been very fortunate.

Believe that life is worth living and your belief will help create the fact.

If you don’t get out of the box you’ve been raised in, you won’t understand how much bigger the world is.

The world is seldom what it seems; to man, who dimly sees, realities appear as dreams, and dreams realities.

May you live your life as if the maxim of your actions were to become universal law.

You can’t imagine parlor ballads drifting out of high-rise multi-towered buildings. That kind of music existed in a more timeless state of life.

Life is never fair, and perhaps it is a good thing for most of us that it is not.

It isn’t what you have, or who you are, or where you are, or what you are doing that makes you happy or unhappy. It is what you think about.

Life is not long, and too much of it must not pass in idle deliberation how it shall be spent.

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.

It isn’t that they can’t see the solution. It is that they can’t see the problem.

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

Some people regard private enterprise as a predatory tiger to be shot. Others look on it as a cow they can milk. Not enough people see it as a healthy horse, pulling a sturdy wagon.

Is man one of God’s blunders? Or is God one of man’s blunders?

The art of living is more like wrestling than dancing.

Were there none who were discontented with what they have, the world would never reach anything better.

A first sign of the beginning of understanding is the wish to die.

The life of an uneducated man is as useless as the tail of a dog which neither covers its rear end, nor protects it from the bites of insects.