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

What sweetness is left in life, if you take away friendship? Robbing life of friendship is like robbing the world of the sun. A true friend is more to be esteemed than kinsfolk.

Confront a corpse at least once. The absolute absence of life is the most disturbing and challenging confrontation you will ever have.

But what is happiness except the simple harmony between a man and the life he leads?

Life is full of misery, loneliness, and suffering – and it’s all over much too soon.

Judgments, value judgments concerning life, for or against, can in the last resort never be true: they possess value only as symptoms, they come into consideration only as symptoms – in themselves such judgments are stupidities.

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

Death, like birth, is a secret of Nature.

Security is mostly a superstition. It does not exist in nature, nor do the children of men as a whole experience it. Avoiding danger is no safer in the long run than outright exposure. Life is either a daring adventure, or nothing.

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.

The state comes into existence for the sake of life and continues to exist for the sake of good life.

The courage of life is often a less dramatic spectacle than the courage of a final moment; but it is no less a magnificent mixture of triumph and tragedy.

What we have once enjoyed we can never lose. All that we love deeply becomes a part of us.

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.

In every parting there is an image of death.

The Church is like a great tree whose roots must be energetically anchored in the earth while its leaves are serenely exposed to the bright sunlight. In this way, she sums up a whole gamut of beats in a single living and all-embracing act, each one of which corresponds to a particular degree or a possible form of spiritualisation.

They are resilient children, but they are children, and as much as they need help to understand the hard truths in life, they also need what we all need – protection and love.

I want you to feel happy and enjoy the theatre of my life the way that I do. No matter what happens with my music and wherever I go – that heart of that glamorous girl in New York will never be gone.

Life levels all men. Death reveals the eminent.

Life imitates art far more than art imitates Life.

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

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

I don’t know how to have a normal relationship because I try to act normal and love from a normal place and live a normal life, but there is sort of an abnormal magnifying glass, like telescope lens, on everything that happens.

Most of the luxuries and many of the so-called comforts of life are not only not indispensable, but positive hindrances to the elevation of mankind.

Life affords no higher pleasure than that of surmounting difficulties, passing from one step of success to another, forming new wishes and seeing them gratified.

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.

The cost of a thing is the amount of what I will call life which is required to be exchanged for it, immediately or in the long run.

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.

Every parting gives a foretaste of death, every reunion a hint of the resurrection.

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

All that seems indispensible in stating the account between the dead and the living, is to see that the debts against the latter do not exceed the advances made by the former.

Had I pursued my education long enough to learn all the conventional dos and don’ts of starting a business, I often wonder how different my life and career might have been.

I think Bible principles are principles for life.

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.

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.

I live in a crazy time.

Every secret of a writer’s soul, every experience of his life, every quality of his mind is written large in his works.

Life is a dead-end street.

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.

Fate pulls you in different directions.

While I thought that I was learning how to live, I have been learning how to die.

There is nothing permanent except change.

An unused life is an early death.

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

It is more fitting for a man to laugh at life than to lament over it.

There is nothing so strong or safe in an emergency of life as the simple truth.

A countryman between two lawyers is like a fish between two cats.

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

It is best to rise from life as from a banquet, neither thirsty nor drunken.

The experience of democracy is like the experience of life itself-always changing, infinite in its variety, sometimes turbulent and all the more valuable for having been tested by adversity.

Bread without flesh is a good diet, as on many botanical excursions I have proved. Tea also may easily be ignored. Just bread and water and delightful toil is all I need – not unreasonably much, yet one ought to be trained and tempered to enjoy life in these brave wilds in full independence of any particular kind of nourishment.

When you arise in the morning, think of what a precious privilege it is to be alive – to breathe, to think, to enjoy, to love.

At any street corner the feeling of absurdity can strike any man in the face.

Passions are the gales of life.

Death is just life’s next big adventure.

Life isn’t meant to be easy. It’s hard to take being on the top – or on the bottom. I guess I’m something of a fatalist. You have to have a sense of history, I think, to survive some of these things… Life is one crisis after another.

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

Find ecstasy in life; the mere sense of living is joy enough.

There is an ecstasy that marks the summit of life, and beyond which life cannot rise. And such is the paradox of living, this ecstasy comes when one is most alive, and it comes as a complete forgetfulness that one is alive.

Life’s like a play: it’s not the length, but the excellence of the acting that matters.

As a well-spent day brings happy sleep, so a life well spent brings happy death.