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

If a man or woman is born ten years sooner or later, their whole aspect and performance shall be different.

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

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.

You’re going to die. You’re going to be dead. It could be 20 years, it could be tomorrow, anytime. So am I. I mean, we’re just going to be gone. The world’s going to go on without us. All right now. You do your job in the face of that, and how seriously you take yourself you decide for yourself.

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.

Bullfighting is the only art in which the artist is in danger of death and in which the degree of brilliance in the performance is left to the fighter’s honor.

Our care should not be to have lived long as to have lived enough.

Life without liberty is like a body without spirit.

If you have the opportunity to play this game of life you need to appreciate every moment. A lot of people don’t appreciate the moment until it’s passed.

Alas, I am dying beyond my means.

To some extent I liken slavery to death.

Just as courage imperils life, fear protects it.

We conceal it from ourselves in vain – we must always love something. In those matters seemingly removed from love, the feeling is secretly to be found, and man cannot possibly live for a moment without it.

It seems the older you get, the more life comes into focus.

People who don’t like my work say that the connections seem too arbitrary. But that’s how life is.

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.

We do not know what love is. We know the symptoms of it, the pleasure, the pain, the fear, the anxiety and so on. We try to solve the symptoms, which becomes a wandering in darkness. We spend our days and nights in this, and it is soon over in death.

Life is pleasant. Death is peaceful. It’s the transition that’s troublesome.

Life is ten percent what happens to you and ninety percent how you respond to it.

It is far harder to kill a phantom than a reality.

Everything is political. I will never be a politician or even think political. Me just deal with life and nature. That is the greatest thing to me.

Singleness of purpose is one of the chief essentials for success in life, no matter what may be one’s aim.

Climate is what we expect, weather is what we get.

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.

There’s an ecstatic side to writing. It’s like jazz. It just has a life.

Akron, Ohio, is my home. It will always be remembered. Akron, Ohio, is my life.

When Clark Gable died, I cried for 2 days straight. I couldn’t eat or sleep.

Ageing’s alright, better than the alternative, which is not being here.

It is a no-fail, incontrovertible reality: If you get, give. If you learn, teach. You can’t do anything with that except do it.

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

Things ain’t what they used to be and never were.

The universe as we know it is a joint product of the observer and the observed.

I noticed words crudely spray-painted upon the wall, perhaps by a young Berliner: ‚This wall will fall. Beliefs become reality.‘ Yes, across Europe, this wall will fall. For it cannot withstand faith; it cannot withstand truth. The wall cannot withstand freedom.

Sometimes even to live is an act of courage.

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

Life is thickly sown with thorns, and I know no other remedy than to pass quickly through them. The longer we dwell on our misfortunes, the greater is their power to harm us.

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.

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.

If someone attacks me, and they want to punch or kick me, I can just run away. They’re not holding onto me. I can get away from them.

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.

Every loss of life is terrible.

Wrinkles should merely indicate where smiles have been.

I suppose that’s one of the ironies of life doing the wrong thing at the right moment.

Your life is like a play with several acts. Some of the characters who enter have short roles to play, others, much larger. Some are villains and others are good guys. But all of them are necessary; otherwise, they wouldn’t be in the play. Embrace them all, and move on to the next act.

What life half gives a man, posterity gives entirely.

Music is the mediator between the spiritual and the sensual life.

They died hard, those savage men – like wounded wolves at bay. They were filthy, and they were lousy, and they stunk. And I loved them.

Homeland or death! Socialism or death! We shall overcome!

Life is neither good or evil, but only a place for good and evil.

It is only hope which is real, and reality is a bitterness and a deceit.

There are as many pillows of illusion as flakes in a snow-storm. We wake from one dream into another dream.

We don’t get a chance to do that many things, and every one should be really excellent. Because this is our life. Life is brief, and then you die, you know? So this is what we’ve chosen to do with our life.

Do not take life too seriously. You will never get out of it alive.

Life without love is like a tree without blossoms or fruit.

The only way to take sorrow out of death is to take love out of life.

Over the centuries, mankind has tried many ways of combating the forces of evil… prayer, fasting, good works and so on. Up until Doom, no one seemed to have thought about the double-barrel shotgun. Eat leaden death, demon.

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

The last act is bloody, however pleasant all the rest of the play is: a little earth is thrown at last upon our head, and that is the end forever.

Unbeing dead isn’t being alive.

This has been my life for many years; one role feeds the other.