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

Which death is preferably to every other? ‚The unexpected‘.

Affection is responsible for nine-tenths of whatever solid and durable happiness there is in our lives.

No question is so difficult to answer as that to which the answer is obvious.

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

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

I do not like the man who squanders life for fame; give me the man who living makes a name.

People think, because we’re young, we aren’t complex, but that’s not true. We deal with life and love and broken hearts in the same way a woman a few years older might.

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

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

The direction in which education starts a man will determine his future in life.

Cursing is invoking the assistance of a spirit to help you inflict suffering. Swearing on the other hand, is invoking, only the witness of a spirit to an statement you wish to make.

Man’s real life is happy, chiefly because he is ever expecting that it soon will be so.

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

Art is parasitic on life, just as criticism is parasitic on art.

I’ve been afraid of people playing their life away with too many toys.

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

My focus is to forget the pain of life. Forget the pain, mock the pain, reduce it. And laugh.

Thinking is easy, acting is difficult, and to put one’s thoughts into action is the most difficult thing in the world.

The choicest pleasures of life lie within the ring of moderation.

Each life is made up of mistakes and learning, waiting and growing, practicing patience and being persistent.

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

Only those are fit to live who are not afraid to die.

When you look at the sun during your walking meditation, the mindfulness of the body helps you to see that the sun is in you; without the sun there is no life at all and suddenly you get in touch with the sun in a different way.

Out of suffering have emerged the strongest souls; the most massive characters are seared with scars.

My life is not unlike Truman’s. I can’t go anywhere.

Fiction is like a spider’s web, attached ever so slightly perhaps, but still attached to life at all four corners. Often the attachment is scarcely perceptible.

Keep in mind that no matter how perfectly you get your life in order, you will never be rid of all your problems. Problems are a way of life, always have been, always will be. But how you elect to view those problems is all up to you.

It is not necessary that whilst I live I live happily; but it is necessary that so long as I live I should live honourably.

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

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

The devil has put a penalty on all things we enjoy in life. Either we suffer in health or we suffer in soul or we get fat.

This industry has been really good to me. It’s been a great life. I’m not through yet. I’m ready when you are, Mr. DeMille.

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

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.

‚Suffering should not make us bitter people,‘ my mother once said, ‚it should make us better comforters.‘ Young people need to hear this from those who have walked before them, because someday they’ll be walking those same steps, but there may not be anyone following behind.

This soul, or life within us, by no means agrees with the life outside us. If one has the courage to ask her what she thinks, she is always saying the very opposite to what other people say.

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.

I mean… in life… what relationship is easy?

I go to assume a task more difficult than that which devolved upon Washington. Unless the great God, who assisted him, shall be with me and aid me, I must fail; but if the same omniscient mind and almighty arm that directed and protected him shall guide and support me, I shall not fail – I shall succeed.

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

Life is so short. I would rather sing one song than interpret the thousand.

My whole life is a theater piece.

The basic fact about human existence is not that it is a tragedy, but that it is a bore. It is not so much a war as an endless standing in line.

Only a life lived for others is a life worthwhile.

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

A psychoneurosis must be understood, ultimately, as the suffering of a soul which has not discovered its meaning.

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

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

Don’t part with your illusions. When they are gone, you may still exist, but you have ceased to live.

When it’s your time, it is your time.

Our greatest happiness does not depend on the condition of life in which chance has placed us, but is always the result of a good conscience, good health, occupation, and freedom in all just pursuits.

Life is a dead-end street.

When any calamity has been suffered the first thing to be remembered is, how much has been escaped.

What really raises one’s indignation against suffering is not suffering intrinsically, but the senselessness of suffering.

Dost thou love life? Then do not squander time, for that is the stuff life is made of.

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.

I believe life is an intelligent thing: that things aren’t random.

All you need in this life is ignorance and confidence, and then success is sure.

Life is too short for long-term grudges.

Those who do not know how to live must make a merit of dying.