The astronomer will believe that the most erratic comet will yet accomplish its journey and revisit our sphere; but we give up those for lost who have not wandered one-half the distance from the centre of light and life.

True virtue is life under the direction of reason.

Time stays, we go.

My life is real.

There is nothing so strong or safe in an emergency of life as the simple truth.

God is cruel. Sometimes he makes you live.

Work is the meat of life, pleasure the dessert.

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.

Against my will, in the course of my travels, the belief that everything worth knowing was known at Cambridge gradually wore off. In this respect my travels were very useful to me.

Life doesn’t imitate art, it imitates bad television.

Death is a fearful thing.

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.

Fate pulls you in different directions.

Life is like riding a bicycle. To keep your balance, you must keep moving.

The mass of men lead lives of quiet desperation. What is called resignation is confirmed desperation.

Life can be boring unless you put some effort into it.

To the well-organized mind, death is but the next great adventure.

If you cannot understand that there is something in man which responds to the challenge of this mountain and goes out to meet it, that the struggle is the struggle of life itself upward and forever upward, then you won’t see why we go.

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

Water is life, and clean water means health.

This is not a bad life.

One should take good care not to grow too wise for so great a pleasure of life as laughter.

An unused life is an early death.

Life is better when people are working, happy, and spending money.

Life imitates art far more than art imitates Life.

Why love if losing hurts so much? I have no answers anymore; only the life I have lived. The pain now is part of the happiness then.

After climbing a great hill, one only finds that there are many more hills to climb.

Without work, all life goes rotten. But when work is soulless, life stifles and dies.

The loss of life will be irreplaceable.

There is nothing more tragic than to find an individual bogged down in the length of life, devoid of breadth.

This life, which had been the tomb of his virtue and of his honour, is but a walking shadow; a poor player, that struts and frets his hour upon the stage, and then is heard no more: it is a tale told by an idiot, full of sound and fury, signifying nothing.

I think, often, people who run away are people who got into things most enthusiastically, and then they want more. They just demand more of life than what is happening in the moment. Sometimes this is a great mistake, as it’s always a good deal different than you expect it.

Such is the state of life, that none are happy but by the anticipation of change: the change itself is nothing; when we have made it, the next wish is to change again.

It is not length of life, but depth of life.

The chief condition on which, life, health and vigor depend on, is action. It is by action that an organism develops its faculties, increases its energy, and attains the fulfillment of its destiny.

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

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.

I think if we didn’t contradict ourselves, it would be awfully boring. It would be tedious to be alive.

Success in life is founded upon attention to the small things rather than to the large things; to the every day things nearest to us rather than to the things that are remote and uncommon.

Misfortune seldom intrudes upon the wise man; his greatest and highest interests are directed by reason throughout the course of life.

Death is a commingling of eternity with time; in the death of a good man, eternity is seen looking through time.

Judging whether life is or is not worth living amounts to answering the fundamental question of philosophy.

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

Life is anything but predictable.

‚Trilogy‘ was more of a claustrophobic body of work. Before it was released, I hadn’t left my city for 21 years, and I had never been on a plane, not once. I spent my entire life on one setting; that’s probably why pieces of the album feel like one long track, because that’s what my life felt like. It felt like one long song.

The great end of life is not knowledge but action.

Your joy comes from how you think, the choices that we make in life.

I draw pleasure in governance, in doing new things and bringing people together. That pleasure is all I need from life.

Man’s real life is happy, chiefly because he is ever expecting that it soon will be so.

One is still what one is going to cease to be and already what one is going to become. One lives one’s death, one dies one’s life.

Health is the soul that animates all the enjoyments of life, which fade and are tasteless without it.

Life is short, the art long.

You can’t connect the dots looking forward; you can only connect them looking backwards. So you have to trust that the dots will somehow connect in your future. You have to trust in something – your gut, destiny, life, karma, whatever. This approach has never let me down, and it has made all the difference in my life.

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

We never live; we are always in the expectation of living.

I work very hard, and I play very hard. I’m grateful for life. And I live it – I believe life loves the liver of it. I live it.

Life’s tragedy is that we get old too soon and wise too late.

Every man’s life ends the same way. It is only the details of how he lived and how he died that distinguish one man from another.

There is an ecstasy that marks the summit of life, and beyond which life cannot rise. And such is the paradox of living, this ecstasy comes when one is most alive, and it comes as a complete forgetfulness that one is alive.

If I think more about death than some other people, it is probably because I love life more than they do.

Life’s like a play: it’s not the length, but the excellence of the acting that matters.