Superstition is the poetry of life.

I’ve come to the conclusion that mythology is really a form of archaeological psychology. Mythology gives you a sense of what a people believes, what they fear.

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

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

You don’t see too many atheists on the deathbed. They all start cramming then.

If you must tell me your opinions, tell me what you believe in. I have plenty of doubts of my own.

What makes life dreary is the want of a motive.

We can be thankful to a friend for a few acres, or a little money; and yet for the freedom and command of the whole earth, and for the great benefits of our being, our life, health, and reason, we look upon ourselves as under no obligation.

Foolish men imagine that because judgment for an evil thing is delayed, there is no justice; but only accident here below. Judgment for an evil thing is many times delayed some day or two, some century or two, but it is sure as life, it is sure as death.

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

On life’s vast ocean diversely we sail. Reasons the card, but passion the gale.

I went on all over the States, ranting poems to enthusiastic audiences that, the week before, had been equally enthusiastic about lectures on Railway Development or the Modern Turkish Essay.

Religion was instituted to make us happy in this life and in the other. What must we do to be happy in the life to come? Be just.

Our life is what our thoughts make it.

Tomorrow is the most important thing in life. Comes into us at midnight very clean. It’s perfect when it arrives and it puts itself in our hands. It hopes we’ve learned something from yesterday.

Life loves the liver of it.

Religion is the frozen thought of man out of which they build temples.

I got a chain letter by fax. It’s very simple. You just fax a dollar bill to everybody on the list.

I wrote some of the worst poetry west from the Mississippi River, but I wrote. And I finally sometimes got it right.

Every people have gods to suit their circumstances.

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

Life is a dead-end street.

There are certain pursuits which, if not wholly poetic and true, do at least suggest a nobler and finer relation to nature than we know. The keeping of bees, for instance.

The only length of life that seems to satisfy the longings of the human heart is life everlasting.

Worshipping is stripping ourselves of our idols, even the most hidden ones, and choosing the Lord as the centre, as the highway of our lives.

Life is an unfoldment, and the further we travel the more truth we can comprehend. To understand the things that are at our door is the best preparation for understanding those that lie beyond.

Neil Young is my hero, and such a great example. You know what that guy has been doing for the past 40 years? Making music. That’s what that guy does. Sometimes you pay attention, sometimes you don’t. Sometimes he hands it to you, sometimes he keeps it to himself. He’s a good man with a beautiful family and wonderful life.

By the time you’ve reached your sixties, you do know that one day you will die, and knowing that is at least the beginning of wisdom.

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

Poets utter great and wise things which they do not themselves understand.

I’m half living my life between reality and fantasy at all times.

Men in general are quick to believe that which they wish to be true.

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

Courage is the price that life exacts for granting peace.

If you like it you should enjoy it! Moderation in everything. If there’s things you really love, you should enjoy. You get one life, so you should enjoy it.

There is only one thing in life worse than being talked about, and that is not being talked about.

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.

As soon go kindle fire with snow, as seek to quench the fire of love with words.

Life has no meaning the moment you lose the illusion of being eternal.

Everywhere in life, the true question is not what we gain, but what we do.

The key to immortality is first living a life worth remembering.

I tend to believe that audiences are relatively well-balanced people.

Confronted with the impossibility of remaining faithful to one’s beliefs, and the equal impossibility of becoming free of them, one can be driven to the most inhuman excesses.

You can’t imagine parlor ballads drifting out of high-rise multi-towered buildings. That kind of music existed in a more timeless state of life.

All great peoples are conservative.

God gave us the gift of life; it is up to us to give ourselves the gift of living well.

Religion is not going to come up with any new arguments.

Change alone is unchanging.

If I were not a physicist, I would probably be a musician. I often think in music. I live my daydreams in music. I see my life in terms of music.

Life in general has never been even close to fair, so the pretense that the government can make it fair is a valuable and inexhaustible asset to politicians who want to expand government.

Where there is love there is life.

I would never want to be a member of a group whose symbol was a guy nailed to two pieces of wood.

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

Every man has the right to risk his own life in order to preserve it. Has it ever been said that a man who throws himself out the window to escape from a fire is guilty of suicide?

Life is partly what we make it, and partly what it is made by the friends we choose.

I want the concentration and the romance, and the worlds all glued together, fused, glowing: have no time to waste any more on prose.

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 universe is transformation: life is opinion.

Every day that is born into the world comes like a burst of music and rings the whole day through, and you make of it a dance, a dirge, or a life march, as you will.

Parting is all we know of heaven, and all we need of hell.

It is a common saying, and in everybody’s mouth, that life is but a sojourn.