Life is pleasant. Death is peaceful. It’s the transition that’s troublesome.

It is not possible to eat me without insisting that I sing praises of my devourer?

Change is always tough. Even for those who see themselves as agents of change, the process of starting a new thing can cause times of disorientation, uncertainty and insecurity.

Life is so, so short. Bible says it’s like a vapor.

Life is like riding a bicycle. To keep your balance, you must keep moving.

There is a very fine line between loving life and being greedy for it.

There is nothing permanent except change.

How much easier it is to be critical than to be correct.

It is comforting to reflect that the disproportion of things in the world seems to be only arithmetical.

Man weeps to think that he will die so soon; woman, that she was born so long ago.

I remember when I first came to Washington. For the first six months you wonder how the hell you ever got here. For the next six months you wonder how the hell the rest of them ever got here.

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.

Sometimes one pays most for the things one gets for nothing.

I second-guess and overthink and rethink every single thing that I do.

No man is rich enough to buy back his past.

It is, generally, in the season of prosperity that men discover their real temper, principles, and designs.

In this world nothing can be said to be certain, except death and taxes.

People are trapped in history and history is trapped in them.

I’ve never understood why people consider youth a time of freedom and joy. It’s probably because they have forgotten their own.

Alas, I am dying beyond my means.

I’ve written all my songs on every single one of my records, and that’s what’s been fun about looking back.

Life is very difficult. One of the most ancient of religious ideas that emerges everywhere, I would say, is that life is essentially suffering.

Next to knowing when to seize an opportunity, the most important thing in life is to know when to forego an advantage.

Sometimes I catch myself stooping, and whenever I am like that, I am sure something is not quite right.

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.

The paradox of courage is that a man must be a little careless of his life even in order to keep it.

Oh, these vast, calm, measureless mountain days, days in whose light everything seems equally divine, opening a thousand windows to show us God.

The Congo was the most difficult shoot of my life but was also maybe the greatest adventure of my life.

When good Americans die they go to Paris.

The happiness of this life depends less on what befalls you than the way in which you take it.

No one knows whether death, which people fear to be the greatest evil, may not be the greatest good.

Everything passes. Nobody gets anything for keeps. And that’s how we’ve got to live.

By the time you’ve reached your sixties, you do know that one day you will die, and knowing that is at least the beginning of wisdom.

Every blessing ignored becomes a curse.

A wonderful fact to reflect upon, that every human creature is constituted to be that profound secret and mystery to every other.

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.

The honor of a nation is its life.

The life so short, the craft so long to learn.

Let us beware of saying that death is the opposite of life. The living being is only a species of the dead, and a very rare species.

One cannot and must not try to erase the past merely because it does not fit the present.

We dissect failure a lot more than we dissect success.

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

Death means change our clothes. Clothes become old, then time to come change. So this body become old, and then time come, take young body.

Life is really simple, but we insist on making it complicated.

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

If I shall exist eternally, how shall I exist tomorrow?

It is not death or pain that is to be dreaded, but the fear of pain or death.

You’re born. You suffer. You die. Fortunately, there’s a loophole.

Life is precious.

The progress of rivers to the ocean is not so rapid as that of man to error.

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

I have more than once in my time woken up feeling like death.

Once you get into this great stream of history, you can’t get out.

Only when the tide goes out do you discover who’s been swimming naked.

If you lose a big fight, it will worry you all of your life. It will plague you – until you get your revenge.

Work is the meat of life, pleasure the dessert.

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

Men are never really willing to die except for the sake of freedom: therefore they do not believe in dying completely.

The true face of smoking is disease, death and horror – not the glamour and sophistication the pushers in the tobacco industry try to portray.

Satisfaction consists in freedom from pain, which is the positive element of life.

And why not death rather than living torment? To die is to be banish’d from myself; And Silvia is myself: banish’d from her Is self from self: a deadly banishment!