Life is as tedious as twice-told tale, vexing the dull ear of a drowsy man.

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

All the time, I’ve felt that life is a wager and that I probably was getting more out of leading a bohemian existence as a writer than I would have if I didn’t.

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

We live in a bewildering world.

Life is hard. After all, it kills you.

Music was an experience, intimately married to your life. You could pay to hear music, but after you did, it was over, gone – a memory.

You are going to let the fear of poverty govern you life and your reward will be that you will eat, but you will not live.

Parting is all we know of heaven, and all we need of hell.

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.

Life is a difficult game. You can win it only by retaining your birthright to be a person.

I definitely connected to the fact that life gets out of control and you end up doing things and wishing you were doing other things instead.

The end of life is to be like God, and the soul following God will be like Him.

I like gaps; all my stories have gaps. It seems this is the way people’s lives present themselves.

Life is one grand, sweet song, so start the music.

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

I always like to look on the optimistic side of life, but I am realistic enough to know that life is a complex matter.

I think life on Earth must be about more than just solving problems… It’s got to be something inspiring, even if it is vicarious.

It is possible to provide security against other ills, but as far as death is concerned, we men live in a city without walls.

Every secret of a writer’s soul, every experience of his life, every quality of his mind is written large in his works.

One is still what one is going to cease to be and already what one is going to become. One lives one’s death, one dies one’s life.

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.

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

If you want to make God laugh, tell him about your plans.

Mars is the only place in the solar system where it’s possible for life to become multi-planetarian.

There’s place and means for every man alive.

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

I suppose that’s one of the ironies of life doing the wrong thing at the right moment.

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.

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.

Life is warfare.

Life is wasted on the living.

The universe is transformation: life is opinion.

Our life is frittered away by detail… simplify, simplify.

I look upon death to be as necessary to our constitution as sleep. We shall rise refreshed in the morning.

Life comes with many challenges. The ones that should not scare us are the ones we can take on and take control of.

I’m half living my life between reality and fantasy at all times. It’s best not to ask questions and just enjoy.

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

All my life I’ve looked at words as though I were seeing them for the first time.

When we meet real tragedy in life, we can react in two ways – either by losing hope and falling into self-destructive habits, or by using the challenge to find our inner strength. Thanks to the teachings of Buddha, I have been able to take this second way.

Keep love in your heart. A life without it is like a sunless garden when the flowers are dead.

Life is the childhood of our immortality.

It’s in responsibility that most people find the meaning that sustains them through life. It’s not in happiness. It’s not in impulsive pleasure.

Life is a song to me.

My life has been one great big joke, a dance that’s walked a song that’s spoke, I laugh so hard I almost choke when I think about myself.

True virtue is life under the direction of reason.

It is more fitting for a man to laugh at life than to lament over it.

Worshipping is stripping ourselves of our idols, even the most hidden ones, and choosing the Lord as the centre, as the highway of our lives.

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.

Without discipline, there’s no life at all.

It all went wrong with football, the thing I loved most of all, and from there, my life slowly fell apart.

There is but one truly serious philosophical problem and that is suicide.

You are doomed to make choices. This is life’s greatest paradox.

The last act is bloody, however pleasant all the rest of the play is: a little earth is thrown at last upon our head, and that is the end forever.

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

Genius goes around the world in its youth incessantly apologizing for having large feet. What wonder that later in life it should be inclined to raise those feet too swiftly to fools and bores.

Youth is a wonderful thing. What a crime to waste it on children.

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.

What is called genius is the abundance of life and health.

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.

Live your life while you have it. Life is a splendid gift. There is nothing small in it. Far the greatest things grow by God’s law out of the smallest. But to live your life, you must discipline it.