One has to pay dearly for immortality; one has to die several times while one is still alive.

Life is so, so short. Bible says it’s like a vapor.

Death is not the worst that can happen to men.

They who can give up essential liberty to obtain a little temporary safety deserve neither liberty nor safety.

Can a mortal ask questions which God finds unanswerable? Quite easily, I should think. All nonsense questions are unanswerable.

Contradiction is not a sign of falsity, nor the lack of contradiction a sign of truth.

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.

My personal telephone book is a book of the dead now. I’m so old. Almost all of my friends have died, and I don’t have the guts to take their names out of the book.

Truth is a pathless land.

Tolerance is the virtue of the man without convictions.

By all means, marry. If you get a good wife, you’ll become happy; if you get a bad one, you’ll become a philosopher.

One’s philosophy is not best expressed in words; it is expressed in the choices one makes… and the choices we make are ultimately our responsibility.

The absurd depends as much on man as on the world. For the moment, it is all that links them together.

No one knows whether death, which people fear to be the greatest evil, may not be the greatest good.

‚Tis better to bear the ills we have than fly to others that we know not of.

I’m not afraid of death, but I’m in no hurry to die. I have so much I want to do first.

If any philosopher had been asked for a definition of infinity, he might have produced some unintelligible rigmarole, but he would certainly not have been able to give a definition that had any meaning at all.

All religions, arts and sciences are branches of the same tree.

When you look into an abyss, the abyss also looks into you.

Memories are the key not to the past, but to the future.

Death means change our clothes. Clothes become old, then time to come change. So this body become old, and then time come, take young body.

This industry has been really good to me. It’s been a great life. I’m not through yet. I’m ready when you are, Mr. DeMille.

All this talk about equality. The only thing people really have in common is that they are all going to die.

Nothing has been purchased more dearly than the little bit of reason and sense of freedom which now constitutes our pride.

The world is put back by the death of every one who has to sacrifice the development of his or her peculiar gifts to conventionality.

Life isn’t fair, but God is.

The rarest quality in an epitaph is truth.

I have thought there was some advantage even in death, by which we mingle with the herd of common men.

The golden rule is that there are no golden rules.

Women have served all these centuries as looking glasses possessing the power of reflecting the figure of man at twice its natural size.

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

To me, the extraordinary aspect of martial arts lies in its simplicity. The easy way is also the right way, and martial arts is nothing at all special; the closer to the true way of martial arts, the less wastage of expression there is.

The noblest pleasure is the joy of understanding.

Whenever I think of the past, it brings back so many memories.

The stars shall fade away, the sun himself Grow dim with age, and nature sink in years, But thou shalt flourish in immortal youth, Unhurt amidst the wars of elements, The wrecks of matter, and the crush of worlds.

I can see, and that is why I can be happy, in what you call the dark, but which to me is golden. I can see a God-made world, not a manmade world.

We must conceive of this whole universe as one commonwealth of which both gods and men are members.

I put all my genius into my life; I put only my talent into my works.

My only fear is that I may live too long. This would be a subject of dread to me.

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.

Go to Heaven for the climate, Hell for the company.

What is this world that is hastening me toward I know not what, viewing me with contempt?

The finite is annihilated in the presence of the infinite, and becomes a pure nothing. So our spirit before God, so our justice before divine justice.

There will always be something to ruin our lives, it all depends on what or which finds us first. We are always ripe and ready to be taken.

Man is made to adore and to obey: but if you will not command him, if you give him nothing to worship, he will fashion his own divinities, and find a chieftain in his own passions.

If you want the present to be different from the past, study the past.

I can only note that the past is beautiful because one never realises an emotion at the time. It expands later, and thus we don’t have complete emotions about the present, only about the past.

Where love rules, there is no will to power; and where power predominates, there love is lacking. The one is the shadow of the other.

Anyone who thinks must think of the next war as they would of suicide.

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.

If I make music and people hate it, you know, whatever. I’ll die someday, and one day, they will too.

Wisdom has its root in goodness, not goodness its root in wisdom.

The perplexity of life arises from there being too many interesting things in it for us to be interested properly in any of them.

It was a favorite expression of Theophrastus that time was the most valuable thing that a man could spend.

Once you fully apprehend the vacuity of a life without struggle, you are equipped with the basic means of salvation.

Every philosophical problem, when it is subjected to the necessary analysis and justification, is found either to be not really philosophical at all, or else to be, in the sense in which we are using the word, logical.

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

I know now that there is no one thing that is true – it is all true.

Not only is there but one way of doing things rightly, but there is only one way of seeing them, and that is, seeing the whole of them.

Knowledge about life is one thing; effective occupation of a place in life, with its dynamic currents passing through your being, is another.

Who, being loved, is poor?