Life tends to be an accumulation of a lot of mundane decisions, which often gets ignored.

Life is just one damned thing after another.

Frankly, I think that the news industry is critically important because it points out things and surfaces truths that can often be uncomfortable. I think that that’s working, and the spotlight has been pointed on things that we have a responsibility to do better, and I accept that.

The future is something which everyone reaches at the rate of 60 minutes an hour, whatever he does, whoever he is.

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

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

The day which we fear as our last is but the birthday of eternity.

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

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

The world is very different now. For man holds in his mortal hands the power to abolish all forms of human poverty, and all forms of human life.

My life is mine to remember.

Life is to be lived. If you have to support yourself, you had bloody well better find some way that is going to be interesting. And you don’t do that by sitting around.

In seeking comfort, we generally find a quiet corner in life where there is a minimum of conflict, and then we are afraid to step out of that seclusion.

While there’s life, there’s hope.

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

When I was young, an eccentric uncle decided to teach me how to lie. Not, he explained, because he wanted me to lie, but because he thought I should know how it’s done so I would recognise when I was being lied to.

I am opposed to the accumulation of executive power anywhere.

My favorite thing in life is writing about life, specifically the parts of life concerning love. Because, as far as I’m concerned, love is absolutely everything.

No man enjoys the true taste of life, but he who is ready and willing to quit it.

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.

Life’s a rollercoaster. You’re up one minute; you’re down one minute. But who doesn’t like rollercoasters?

The drama and the trauma of the relationship you have when you’re 16 can mirror the one you have when you’re 26. Life repeats itself.

There is no doubt that life is given us, not to be enjoyed, but to be overcome; to be got over.

Life is not a spectator sport. If you’re going to spend your whole life in the grandstand just watching what goes on, in my opinion you’re wasting your life.

People only see what they are prepared to see.

Life has no meaning the moment you lose the illusion of being eternal.

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

I think that all people who feel that there is injustice in the world anywhere should learn as much of it as they can bear. That is our duty.

Life’s short. Anything could happen, and it usually does, so there is no point in sitting around thinking about all the ifs, ands and buts.

Life is our dictionary.

Death and life have their determined appointments; riches and honors depend upon heaven.

He was so depressed, he tried to commit suicide by inhaling next to an Armenian.

When the mind is empty, silent, when it is in a state of complete negation – which is not blankness, nor the opposite of being positive, but a totally different state in which all thought has ceased – only then is it possible for that which is unnameable to come into being.

I would rather live my life as if there is a God and die to find out there isn’t, than live as if there isn’t and to die to find out that there is.

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

I believe that Catholics involved in politics carry the values of their religion within them, but have the mature awareness and expertise to implement them. The Church will never go beyond its task of expressing and disseminating its values, at least as long as I’m here.

Work gives you meaning and purpose and life is empty without it.

The price of freedom is eternal vigilance.

If you stop struggling, then you stop life.

They who dream by day are cognizant of many things which escape those who dream only by night.

No evil can happen to a good man, either in life or after death.

Thou know’st the first time that we smell the air we wawl and cry. When we are born we cry, that we are come to this great state of fools.

The truth is I love being alive. And I love feeling free. So if I can’t have those things then I feel like a caged animal and I’d rather not be in a cage. I’d rather be dead. And it’s real simple. And I think it’s not that uncommon.

There are only two tragedies in life: one is not getting what one wants, and the other is getting it.

My friends ask me if I want more kids, and I always say yes, I want more; it’s the best thing you can have in your life.

The saddest aspect of life right now is that science gathers knowledge faster than society gathers wisdom.

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

We can be thankful to a friend for a few acres, or a little money; and yet for the freedom and command of the whole earth, and for the great benefits of our being, our life, health, and reason, we look upon ourselves as under no obligation.

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.

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

I was really too honest a man to be a politician and live.

Growing old is like being increasingly penalized for a crime you haven’t committed.

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

He not busy being born is busy dying.

Our truest life is when we are in dreams awake.

Nature never deceives us; it is we who deceive ourselves.

I never woke up and thought, ‚I really want to live a bold life.‘

And die of nothing but a rage to live.

Most of the change we think we see in life is due to truths being in and out of favor.

When life is too easy for us, we must beware or we may not be ready to meet the blows which sooner or later come to everyone, rich or poor.

If you’re in business or politics, you need to have an intense understanding of what’s going on around you.