Life is the fire that burns and the sun that gives light. Life is the wind and the rain and the thunder in the sky. Life is matter and is earth, what is and what is not, and what beyond is in Eternity.

Nothing can be divided into more parts than it can possibly be constituted of. But matter (i.e. finite) cannot be constituted of infinite parts.

One has to pay dearly for immortality; one has to die several times while one is still alive.

True virtue is life under the direction of reason.

The feeling about a soldier is, when all is said and done, he wasn’t really going to do very much with his life anyway. The example usually is: he wasn’t going to compose Beethoven’s Fifth.

A chain is no stronger than its weakest link, and life is after all a chain.

We are born, so to speak, twice over; born into existence, and born into life; born a human being, and born a man.

Light is the greatest disinfectant in nature and also in organizations.

A life is not important except in the impact it has on other lives.

We cannot conceive of matter being formed of nothing, since things require a seed to start from… Therefore there is not anything which returns to nothing, but all things return dissolved into their elements.

I make preparations both to live and to die every day, but with the emphasis on not dying, and on acting as if I was going to carry on living.

In war, you win or lose, live or die – and the difference is just an eyelash.

My favorite mode of transport is hot-air ballooning. It’s so graceful to be blown by the wind, to go where the wind takes you.

The tragedy of life is what dies inside a man while he lives.

The stars shall fade away, the sun himself Grow dim with age, and nature sink in years, But thou shalt flourish in immortal youth, Unhurt amidst the wars of elements, The wrecks of matter, and the crush of worlds.

Life is too short not to celebrate nice moments!

One day it will be over, and I don’t care.

What springs from earth dissolves to earth again, and heaven-born things fly to their native seat.

I’m more of a realist when it comes to life, and I’d much rather my mother be in a spiritual place in Heaven than in a bed, sick, fighting for her life.

It is the spectator, and not life, that art really mirrors.

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

I don’t believe we are supposed to go through life defeated and not having enough money to pay our bills or send our kids to college.

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

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.

My favorite things in life don’t cost any money. It’s really clear that the most precious resource we all have is time.

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

Our truest life is when we are in dreams awake.

It has been discovered that all the world is made of the same atoms, that the stars are of the same stuff as ourselves. It then becomes a question of where our stuff came from. Not just where did life come from, or where did the earth come from, but where did the stuff of life and of the earth come from?

It is often said that before you die your life passes before your eyes. It is in fact true. It’s called living.

The boundaries which divide Life from Death are at best shadowy and vague. Who shall say where the one ends, and where the other begins?

Mysterious love, uncertain treasure, hast thou more of pain or pleasure! Endless torments dwell about thee: Yet who would live, and live without thee!

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

Life is all memory, except for the one present moment that goes by you so quickly you hardly catch it going.

To a profound pessimist about life, being in danger is not depressing.

The first thing which I can record concerning myself is, that I was born. These are wonderful words. This life, to which neither time nor eternity can bring diminution – this everlasting living soul, began. My mind loses itself in these depths.

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.

It was morning; through the high window I saw the pure, bright blue of the sky as it hovered cheerfully over the long roofs of the neighboring houses. It too seemed full of joy, as if it had special plans, and had put on its finest clothes for the occasion.

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

Fear seems to have many causes. Fear of loss, fear of failure, fear of being hurt, and so on, but ultimately all fear is the ego’s fear of death, of annihilation. To the ego, death is always just around the corner. In this mind-identified state, fear of death affects every aspect of your life.

You pray for rain, you gotta deal with the mud too. That’s a part of it.

What the devil is the point of surviving, going on living, when it’s a drag? But you see, that’s what people do.

Life in abundance comes only through great love.

Surely God would not have created such a being as man, with an ability to grasp the infinite, to exist only for a day! No, no, man was made for immortality.

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

As a general rule, the most successful man in life is the man who has the best information.

Let us all remember this: one cannot proclaim the Gospel of Jesus without the tangible witness of one’s life.

Superstition is to religion what astrology is to astronomy the mad daughter of a wise mother. These daughters have too long dominated the earth.

Actor’s life is very long.

There are two means of refuge from the miseries of life: music and cats.

Life belongs to the living, and he who lives must be prepared for changes.

The senses are of the earth, the reason stands apart from them in contemplation.

Books that you carry to the fire, and hold readily in your hand, are most useful after all.

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 man’s life ends the same way. It is only the details of how he lived and how he died that distinguish one man from another.

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

Although the life of a person is in a land full of thorns and weeds, there is always a space in which the good seed can grow. You have to trust God.

It’s not catastrophes, murders, deaths, diseases, that age and kill us; it’s the way people look and laugh, and run up the steps of omnibuses.

I joyfully hasten to meet death. If it come before I have had opportunity to develop all my artistic faculties, it will come, my hard fate notwithstanding, too soon, and I should probably wish it later – yet even then I shall be happy, for will it not deliver me from a state of endless suffering?

Art’s everything we hope life would be, a lot of times.

There is something feeble and a little contemptible about a man who cannot face the perils of life without the help of comfortable myths.

The best thing to hold onto in life is each other.