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

There is only one thing in life worse than being talked about, and that is not being talked about.

For me, writing has always come out of living a fairly to-the-bone kind of life, just really being present to a lot of life. The writing has been really a byproduct of that.

Life can be boring unless you put some effort into it.

Life is far too important a thing ever to talk seriously about.

It’s pretty intense writing about my own life, my own struggles.

If a man or woman is born ten years sooner or later, their whole aspect and performance shall be different.

Life is not living in the suburbs with a white picket fence. That’s not life. Somehow our American culture has made it out that that’s what life needs to be – and that if it’s not that, it’s all screwed up. It’s not.

I should have no objection to go over the same life from its beginning to the end: requesting only the advantage authors have, of correcting in a second edition the faults of the first.

Our character is not so much the product of race and heredity as of those circumstances by which nature forms our habits, by which we are nurtured and live.

If I think more about death than some other people, it is probably because I love life more than they do.

Jesus lived a life that was full of joy and contradictions and fights, you know? If they were to paint a picture of Jesus without contradictions, the gospels would be fake, but the contradictions are a sign of authenticity.

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

It is impossible to live without failing at something, unless you live so cautiously that you might as well not have lived at all, in which case you have failed by default.

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

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

Foolish men imagine that because judgment for an evil thing is delayed, there is no justice; but only accident here below. Judgment for an evil thing is many times delayed some day or two, some century or two, but it is sure as life, it is sure as death.

Nature teaches us that tens of billions of light years may have passed, and life in all of its expressions has always been subjected to an incredible combination of matter and radiation.

Baseball is a universe as large as life itself, and therefore all things in life, whether good or bad, whether tragic or comic, fall within its domain.

That’s the shock: All cliches are true. The years really do speed by. Life really is as short as they tell you it is. And there really is a God – so do I buy that one? If all the other cliches are true… Hell, don’t pose me that one.

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.

What do you want a meaning for? Life is a desire, not a meaning.

I suppose, in a way, this has become part of my soul. It is a symbol of my life. Whatever I have done that really matters, I’ve done wearing it. When the time comes, it will be in this that I journey forth. What greater honor could come to an American, and a soldier?

In order to speak about all and to all, one has to speak of what all know and of the reality common to us all. The sea, rains, necessity, desire, the struggle against death… these are things that unite us all.

The object of life is not to be on the side of the majority, but to escape finding oneself in the ranks of the insane.

Life is ten percent what happens to you and ninety percent how you respond to it.

My whole life has been one big improvisation.

He not busy being born is busy dying.

The universe is transformation: life is opinion.

Freedom is never dear at any price. It is the breath of life. What would a man not pay for living?

Some mystery should be left in the revelation of character in a play, just as a great deal of mystery is always left in the revelation of character in life, even in one’s own character to himself.

To the well-organized mind, death is but the next great adventure.

Death is one moment, and life is so many of them.

Accept the terrible responsibility of life with eyes wide open.

Wisdom is nothing but a preparation of the soul, a capacity, a secret art of thinking, feeling and breathing thoughts of unity at every moment of life.

I don’t think that you can be prescriptive about anything, I mean, life is too complicated. Maybe there are novels where the author has not in the least thought about it in terms of film, which can be turned into good films.

We forge the chains we wear in life.

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.

Without football, my life is worth nothing.

Alcohol is the anesthesia by which we endure the operation of life.

To the wise, life is a problem; to the fool, a solution.

Death is the king of this world: ‚Tis his park where he breeds life to feed him. Cries of pain are music for his banquet.

Life consists in what a man is thinking of all day.

Everybody is going to have their critics. It’s easy to get discouraged in life.

I sometimes wish I were suffering in a good cause, or risking my life for the good of others, instead of just being a gravely endangered patient.

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

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.

Sometimes life hits you in the head with a brick. Don’t lose faith.

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.

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

Things in themselves have no life in them. A car can’t comfort or encourage you. A house means nothing if there’s no life and love inside.

The only time you really live fully is from thirty to sixty. The young are slaves to dreams; the old servants of regrets. Only the middle-aged have all their five senses in the keeping of their wits.

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

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

Those who have been writing literature have not been writing life.

Misfortune seldom intrudes upon the wise man; his greatest and highest interests are directed by reason throughout the course of life.

Enlightenment is always there. Small enlightenment will bring great enlightenment. If you breathe in and are aware that you are alive – that you can touch the miracle of being alive – then that is a kind of enlightenment.

True wisdom comes to each of us when we realize how little we understand about life, ourselves, and the world around us.

Some desire is necessary to keep life in motion, and he whose real wants are supplied must admit those of fancy.

I have lived eighty years of life and know nothing for it, but to be resigned and tell myself that flies are born to be eaten by spiders and man to be devoured by sorrow.

God gave us the gift of life; it is up to us to give ourselves the gift of living well.