Some people die at 25 and aren’t buried until 75.

There’s place and means for every man alive.

The act of dying is one of the acts of life.

My biographers… would like to have my time at the court almost complete before they finish the book. We decided… to flip the order.

I don’t know where I’m going from here, but I promise it won’t be boring.

But men must know, that in this theatre of man’s life it is reserved only for God and angels to be lookers on.

Life could be wonderful if people would leave you alone.

If you spend too much time thinking about a thing, you’ll never get it done.

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

An unused life is an early death.

The life of the dead is placed in the memory of the living.

Lost time is never found again.

Of life’s two chief prizes, beauty and truth, I found the first in a loving heart and the second in a laborer’s hand.

The body politic, as well as the human body, begins to die as soon as it is born, and carries itself the causes of its destruction.

The wise man does not expose himself needlessly to danger, since there are few things for which he cares sufficiently; but he is willing, in great crises, to give even his life – knowing that under certain conditions it is not worthwhile to live.

When we are born we cry that we are come to this great stage of fools.

As you get older, the questions come down to about two or three. How long? And what do I do with the time I’ve got left?

90 percent of my time is spent on 10 percent of the world.

Life is anything but predictable.

I have lived long enough to satisfy both nature and glory.

There are two tragedies in life. One is to lose your heart’s desire. The other is to gain it.

Our character is not so much the product of race and heredity as of those circumstances by which nature forms our habits, by which we are nurtured and live.

Let us beware of saying that death is the opposite of life. The living being is only a species of the dead, and a very rare species.

No one can pass through life, any more than he can pass through a bit of country, without leaving tracks behind, and those tracks may often be helpful to those coming after him in finding their way.

Life is as tedious as twice-told tale, vexing the dull ear of a drowsy man.

Millions of people die every day. Everyone’s got to go sometime. I’ve came by this particular tumor honestly. If you smoke, which I did for many years very heavily with occasional interruption, and if you use alcohol, you make yourself a candidate for it in your sixties.

Grief is the agony of an instant; the indulgence of grief the blunder of a life.

Life opens up opportunities to you, and you either take them or you stay afraid of taking them.

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.

Adjusting to the passage of time, I think, is a key to success and to life: just being able to roll with the punches.

Three o’clock is always too late or too early for anything you want to do.

Art’s everything we hope life would be, a lot of times.

Time is more value than money. You can get more money, but you cannot get more time.

The art of living is more like wrestling than dancing.

Do the hard jobs first. The easy jobs will take care of themselves.

Stop acting as if life is a rehearsal. Live this day as if it were your last. The past is over and gone. The future is not guaranteed.

Many people would sooner die than think; in fact, they do so.

We all knew this. We all knew that it would take more time than any of us want to dig ourselves out of this hole created by this economic crisis.

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.

If I was to go to sleep before midnight, I would feel weird about myself, like I wasted a day. My most productive hours are between midnight and five.

It is extremely difficult to say how long the process actually took to finally achieve my fragrance, Boudoir, because there was a lot of time waiting around for other people.

Let all your things have their places; let each part of your business have its time.

Whether you like it or not, you’re forced to come to the realisation that death is out there. But I don’t fear death, I’m a fatalist. I believe when it’s your time, that’s it. It’s the hand you’re dealt.

The truth is I love being alive. And I love feeling free. So if I can’t have those things then I feel like a caged animal and I’d rather not be in a cage. I’d rather be dead. And it’s real simple. And I think it’s not that uncommon.

If my survival caused another to perish, then death would be sweeter and more beloved.

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

I was not a good student. I did not spend much time at college; I was too busy enjoying myself.

My dear brothers and sisters, the joy we feel has little to do with the circumstances of our lives and everything to do with the focus of our lives.

When I was very young I was sort of floored by the fact that my mother and my father and everyone I knew was going to die one day, and myself too. I had a sort of a philosophical crisis. I couldn’t believe that we were mortal.

In football, it’s the job of the player to play, the coach to coach, the official to officiate. Each guy is charged with upholding his end, nothing more. In golf, the player, coach and official are rolled into one, and they overlap completely. Golf really is the best microcosm of life – or at least the way life should be.

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

The drama and the trauma of the relationship you have when you’re 16 can mirror the one you have when you’re 26. Life repeats itself.

We fear that this moment will end, that we won’t get what we need, that we will lose what we love, or that we will not be safe. Often, our biggest fear is the knowledge that one day our bodies will cease functioning. So even when we are surrounded by all the conditions for happiness, our joy is not complete.

But I think there are a set of experiences that turn a potential writer into a working writer, and then there are places in your life were you start to recognize what you want to do.

The thing most people don’t pick up when they become an entrepreneur is that it never ends. It’s 24/7.

To have no time for philosophy is to be a true philosopher.

I think Bible principles are principles for life.

I have wasted my hours.

When it comes to life the critical thing is whether you take things for granted or take them with gratitude.

Tomorrow is nothing, today is too late; the good lived yesterday.

Nine times out of ten, in the arts as in life, there is actually no truth to be discovered; there is only error to be exposed.