Life is an ordeal, albeit an exciting one, but I wouldn’t trade it for the good old days of poverty and obscurity.

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

Poverty breeds despair. We know this. Despair breeds violence. We know this. In turbulent times, isn’t it cheaper, and smarter, to make friends out of potential enemies than to defend yourself against them later?

Life is essentially a cheat and its conditions are those of defeat; the redeeming things are not happiness and pleasure but the deeper satisfactions that come out of struggle.

A worthy woman personifies the truly noble and worthwhile attributes of life.

Poverty is the mother of crime.

Everybody’s youth is a dream, a form of chemical madness.

I just have an enthusiasm for life.

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

Every loss of life is terrible.

Only a life lived for others is a life worthwhile.

I think that there is nothing, not even crime, more opposed to poetry, to philosophy, ay, to life itself than this incessant business.

I can do no other than be reverent before everything that is called life. I can do no other than to have compassion for all that is called life. That is the beginning and the foundation of all ethics.

To fear love is to fear life, and those who fear life are already three parts dead.

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

This life is worth living, we can say, since it is what we make it.

My friends ask me if I want more kids, and I always say yes, I want more; it’s the best thing you can have in your life.

I believe that God put us in this jolly world to be happy and enjoy life.

We have the duty to protect the life of an unborn child.

My days, my years, my life has seen up and downs, lights and darknesses. If I wrote only and continually of the ‚light‘ and never mentioned the other, then as an artist, I would be a liar.

Our truest life is when we are in dreams awake.

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

Except during the nine months before he draws his first breath, no man manages his affairs as well as a tree does.

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

It is foolish and wrong to mourn the men who died. Rather we should thank God that such men lived.

I expected to die. At no time before the trial did I expect to escape with my life. Yet being executed in the gas chamber did not necessarily mean defeat. It could be one more step to bring the community to a higher level of consciousness.

I’d go to, like, six different schools in one year. We were on welfare, and my mom never ever worked.

Life is just one damned thing after another.

From the middle of life onward, only he remains vitally alive who is ready to die with 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 is a very fine line between loving life and being greedy for it.

Every nation has to follow a certain policy: Commercial, trade, various other types of policies.

We love life, not because we are used to living but because we are used to loving.

It is only a man’s own fundamental thoughts that have truth and life in them. For it is these that he really and completely understands. To read the thoughts of others is like taking the remains of someone else’s meal, like putting on the discarded clothes of a stranger.

Part of the secret of a success in life is to eat what you like and let the food fight it out inside.

Life’s tragedy is that we get old too soon and wise too late.

There is no security on this earth; there is only opportunity.

Poetry is a way of taking life by the throat.

Life would be tragic if it weren’t funny.

I still live, I still think: I still have to live, for I still have to think.

If we hope for what we are not likely to possess, we act and think in vain, and make life a greater dream and shadow than it really is.

Just as courage imperils life, fear protects it.

No one can possibly know what is about to happen: it is happening, each time, for the first time, for the only time.

All that I know about my life, it seems, I have learned in books.

What we have once enjoyed we can never lose. All that we love deeply becomes a part of us.

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.

As is a tale, so is life: not how long it is, but how good it is, is what matters.

Those who have never known the deep intimacy and the intense companionship of mutual love have missed the best thing that life has to give.

I live in a crazy time.

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

Forty is the old age of youth, fifty is the youth of old age.

When you cease to make a contribution, you begin to die.

Life, an age to the miserable, and a moment to the happy.

What we have found in this country, and maybe we’re more aware of it now, is one problem that we’ve had, even in the best of times, and that is the people who are sleeping on the grates, the homeless, you might say, by choice.

The state comes into existence for the sake of life and continues to exist for the sake of good life.

All theory, dear friend, is gray, but the golden tree of life springs ever green.

For if there is a sin against life, it consists perhaps not so much in despairing of life as in hoping for another life and in eluding the implacable grandeur of this life.

After all, life hasn’t much to offer except youth, and I suppose for older people, the love of youth in others.

Getting older is no problem. You just have to live long enough.

Life isn’t about finding yourself. Life is about creating yourself.

Tomorrow is the most important thing in life. Comes into us at midnight very clean. It’s perfect when it arrives and it puts itself in our hands. It hopes we’ve learned something from yesterday.