Man alone is born crying, lives complaining, and dies disappointed.

Smiling makes me feel weak and not in control and not powerful and small.

Such is the state of life, that none are happy but by the anticipation of change: the change itself is nothing; when we have made it, the next wish is to change again.

My mother was a powerful influence. She made me toe the line. If I didn’t have a perfect report card, she showed her disappointment.

Someone has to die in order that the rest of us should value life more.

In the little world in which children have their existence, whosoever brings them up, there is nothing so finely perceived and so finely felt, as injustice.

All theory, dear friend, is gray, but the golden tree of life springs ever green.

You are going to let the fear of poverty govern you life and your reward will be that you will eat, but you will not live.

For life and death are one, even as the river and the sea are one.

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

Sometimes I think it would be easier to avoid old age, to die young, but then you’d never complete your life, would you? You’d never wholly know you.

For if there is a sin against life, it consists perhaps not so much in despairing of life as in hoping for another life and in eluding the implacable grandeur of this life.

A life spent making mistakes is not only more honorable, but more useful than a life spent doing nothing.

Love, we say, is life; but love without hope and faith is agonizing death.

The price of anything is the amount of life you exchange for it.

There is no value in life except what you choose to place upon it and no happiness in any place except what you bring to it yourself.

One who does not know when to die, does not know how to live.

A physician is not angry at the intemperance of a mad patient, nor does he take it ill to be railed at by a man in fever. Just so should a wise man treat all mankind, as a physician does his patient, and look upon them only as sick and extravagant.

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

What do we live for, if not to make life less difficult for each other?

Emotions are continually affecting our thought processes and decisions, below the level of our awareness. And the most common emotion of them all is the desire for pleasure and the avoidance of pain.

The true object of all human life is play. Earth is a task garden; heaven is a playground.

What we feel and think and are is to a great extent determined by the state of our ductless glands and viscera.

I feel upsettingly de-natured. If Penelope Cruz were one of my nurses, I wouldn’t even notice.

I have no human feelings.

Thus so wretched is man that he would weary even without any cause for weariness… and so frivolous is he that, though full of a thousand reasons for weariness, the least thing, such as playing billiards or hitting a ball, is sufficient enough to amuse him.

I fall in love every day. Not with people but with situations.

Without music, life would be a mistake.

Every single one of us has a few months here or there that feel like dark months.

The honor of a nation is its life.

While there’s life, there’s hope.

I left the woods for as good a reason as I went there. Perhaps it seemed to me that I had several more lives to live and could not spare any more time for that one.

Mendacity is a system that we live in. Liquor is one way out an death’s the other.

The first forty years of life give us the text; the next thirty supply the commentary on it.

Getting money is not all a man’s business: to cultivate kindness is a valuable part of the business of life.

One can love a child, perhaps, more deeply than one can love another adult, but it is rash to assume that the child feels any love in return.

It is usually the imagination that is wounded first, rather than the heart; it being much more sensitive.

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

In whatever adulation you get, there’s truth and there’s not truth. And wherever they dog you, and they say it was horrible – there’s truth and there’s not truth. It’s human nature to like to read the adulation more.

Human life is everywhere a state in which much is to be endured, and little to be enjoyed.

When we make progress quickly, it feeds our emotions. Then, when there’s a period of waiting or we hit a plateau, we find out how committed we really are and whether we’re going to see things through to the finish or quit.

Dying is one of the few things that can be done as easily lying down.

I have really been disillusioned with soccer in England.

Man wants to live, but it is useless to hope that this desire will dictate all his actions.

The mass of men lead lives of quiet desperation. What is called resignation is confirmed desperation.

Jesus lived a life that was full of joy and contradictions and fights, you know? If they were to paint a picture of Jesus without contradictions, the gospels would be fake, but the contradictions are a sign of authenticity.

What loneliness is more lonely than distrust?

In this sad world of ours, sorrow comes to all; and to the young, it comes with bitterest agony because it takes them unawares. I have had experience enough to know what I say.

It is normal to give away a little of one’s life in order not to lose it all.

Life’s tragedy is that we get old too soon and wise too late.

If you remember me, then I don’t care if everyone else forgets.

A people free to choose will always choose peace.

Where grief is fresh, any attempt to divert it only irritates.

We are born believing. A man bears beliefs as a tree bears apples.

We are each made for goodness, love and compassion. Our lives are transformed as much as the world is when we live with these truths.

Life and death are one thread, the same line viewed from different sides.

Listen with your eyes for feelings.

The greatest use of a life is to spend it on something that will outlast it.

A chief event of life is the day in which we have encountered a mind that startled us.

If you love life, don’t waste time, for time is what life is made up of.

Of all forms of caution, caution in love is perhaps the most fatal to true happiness.