Millions of people die every day. Everyone’s got to go sometime.

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

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.

Sooner or later, I hate to break it to you, you’re gonna die, so how do you fill in the space between here and there? It’s yours. Seize your space.

My definition of country music is really pretty simple. It’s when someone sings about their life and what they know, from an authentic place.

If I died tomorrow, I would be a happy girl.

What the Pope thinks of being gay does not matter to the world. It matters to the people who like the Pope and follow the Pope… It is not a reflection of all religious people.

Life is a tragedy when seen in close-up, but a comedy in long-shot.

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

Nature puts no question and answers none which we mortals ask. She has long ago taken her resolution.

Time stays, we go.

Meaning and reality were not hidden somewhere behind things, they were in them, in all of them.

Racism and injustice and violence sweep our world, bringing a tragic harvest of heartache and death.

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.

Real life? Well, I just hope mine isn’t investigated. They might find that I don’t really exist – that I’m just a hologram.

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.

I believe in everything until it’s disproved. So I believe in fairies, the myths, dragons. It all exists, even if it’s in your mind. Who’s to say that dreams and nightmares aren’t as real as the here and now?

As a general rule, the most successful man in life is the man who has the best information.

They dream in courtship, but in wedlock wake.

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

Being no bigot myself to any mode of worship, I am disposed to endulge the professors of Christianity in the church, that road to heaven which to them shall seem the most direct plainest easiest and least liable to exception.

Let’s embrace being not normal!

Consistency is contrary to nature, contrary to life. The only completely consistent people are dead.

They wrote in the old days that it is sweet and fitting to die for one’s country. But in modern war, there is nothing sweet nor fitting in your dying. You will die like a dog for no good reason.

My childhood did not prepare me for the fact that the world is full of cruel and bitter things.

The universe is change; our life is what our thoughts make it.

When I die, and people realize that I will not be resurrected in three days, they will forget me. That is the way it should be.

There’s no reality except the one contained within us. That’s why so many people live an unreal life. They take images outside them for reality and never allow the world within them to assert itself.

In war, you can only be killed once, but in politics, many times.

There are a lot of groups that feel a little bit strange around me, because I am inclusive.

Vulnerability is about showing up and being seen. It’s tough to do that when we’re terrified about what people might see or think.

At 30 a man should know himself like the palm of his hand, know the exact number of his defects and qualities, know how far he can go, foretell his failures – be what he is. And, above all, accept these things.

Why are our days numbered and not, say, lettered?

No man lives without jostling and being jostled; in all ways he has to elbow himself through the world, giving and receiving offence.

Nowadays, manners are easy and life is hard.

Chaos often breeds life, when order breeds habit.

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

There is a ‚sanctity‘ involved with bringing a child into this world: it is better than bombing one out of it.

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

No one can possibly know what is about to happen: it is happening, each time, for the first time, for the only time.

Create a ladder of values and priorities in your life, reminding yourself of what really matters to you.

It is not our purpose to become each other; it is to recognize each other, to learn to see the other and honor him for what he is.

It is the spectator, and not life, that art really mirrors.

This has always been my life and no one else’s, and that’s how it’s always been since the day I came in it.

Accept the things to which fate binds you, and love the people with whom fate brings you together, but do so with all your heart.

I’ve looked that old scoundrel death in the eye many times but this time I think he has me on the ropes.

If time is not real, then the dividing line between this world and eternity, between suffering and bliss, between good and evil, is also an illusion.

We are doomed to cling to a life even while we find it unendurable.

It is one of the beautiful compensations in this life that no one can sincerely try to help another without helping himself.

Death is just life’s next big adventure.

When you’re writing a novel, you don’t want the reader to come out of it voting yes or no to some question. Life is more complicated than that. Reality simply consists of different points of view.

Water is life, and clean water means health.

To me, it’s OK to have differences. But we don’t have to be mad about it. You know? And I think that’s where sometimes we get so passionate that we – you know, it turns into anger.

We can’t form our children on our own concepts; we must take them and love them as God gives them to us.

It’s not that I’m afraid to die. I just don’t want to be there when it happens.

Beauty is an outward gift, which is seldom despised, except by those to whom it has been refused.

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.

If my life was a movie, no one would believe it.

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

One has children in the expectation of dying before them. In fact, you want to make damn sure you die before them, just as you plant a tree or build a house knowing, hoping that it will outlive you. That’s how the human species has done as well as it has.

Neither should a ship rely on one small anchor, nor should life rest on a single hope.