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.

Life is anything but predictable.

There are only two mistakes one can make along the road to truth; not going all the way, and not starting.

A useless life is an early death.

I’m here as a product of process of evolution, which doesn’t make very many exceptions. And which rates life relatively cheaply.

My life is not unlike Truman’s. I can’t go anywhere.

In a magazine, one can get – from cover to cover – 15 to 20 different ideas about life and how to live 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.

What do we live for, if not to make life less difficult for each other?

Poetry is a way of taking life by the throat.

We all die, we all get sick, we all feel hunger and lust and pain, and therefore human life is consistent from one generation to the other. We all – most of us, anyway – want connections with other people and spend our lives looking for them.

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.

Man wants to live, but it is useless to hope that this desire will dictate all his actions.

Freedom is never dear at any price. It is the breath of life. What would a man not pay for living?

The measure of a life, after all, is not its duration, but its donation.

If you love life, don’t waste time, for time is what life is made up of.

Everything happens to everybody sooner or later if there is time enough.

At any street corner the feeling of absurdity can strike any man in the face.

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

Between us and heaven or hell there is only life, which is the frailest thing in the world.

The truth is you don’t know what is going to happen tomorrow. Life is a crazy ride, and nothing is guaranteed.

A chief event of life is the day in which we have encountered a mind that startled us.

Do not take life too seriously. You will never get out of it alive.

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

Life must be lived and curiosity kept alive. One must never, for whatever reason, turn his back on life.

Life isn’t meant to be easy. It’s hard to take being on the top – or on the bottom. I guess I’m something of a fatalist. You have to have a sense of history, I think, to survive some of these things… Life is one crisis after another.

Our existence is beyond our explanation, whether we believe in God or we have religion or we’re atheist. Our existence is beyond our understanding. No one has an answer.

Modern travelling is not travelling at all; it is merely being sent to a place, and very little different from becoming a parcel.

This is the highest wisdom that I own; freedom and life are earned by those alone who conquer them each day anew.

If I can put one touch of rosy sunset into the life of any man or woman, I shall feel that I have worked with God.

You accept that this civilisation could be abolished and life will begin later on after a few thousand years because that is something that has happened in the history of this planet. When you have peace in yourself and accept, then you are calm enough to do something, but if you are carried by despair there is no hope.

Our treasure lies in the beehive of our knowledge. We are perpetually on the way thither, being by nature winged insects and honey gatherers of the mind.

Searching is half the fun: life is much more manageable when thought of as a scavenger hunt as opposed to a surprise party.

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.

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

Some desire is necessary to keep life in motion, and he whose real wants are supplied must admit those of fancy.

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.

I make preparations both to live and to die every day, but with the emphasis on not dying, and on acting as if I was going to carry on living.

Man approaches the unattainable truth through a succession of errors.

To me, comedy is just twisting reality. It’s commenting or observing or twisting life.

Chaos often breeds life, when order breeds habit.

A child miseducated is a child lost.

The loss of life will be irreplaceable.

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.

A friend who is far away is sometimes much nearer than one who is at hand. Is not the mountain far more awe-inspiring and more clearly visible to one passing through the valley than to those who inhabit the mountain?

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.

The man who has no problems is out of the game.

Life is not living in the suburbs with a white picket fence. That’s not life. Somehow our American culture has made it out that that’s what life needs to be – and that if it’s not that, it’s all screwed up. It’s not.

Although the life of a person is in a land full of thorns and weeds, there is always a space in which the good seed can grow. You have to trust God.

The paradox of courage is that a man must be a little careless of his life even in order to keep it.

True virtue is life under the direction of reason.

Life does not cease to be funny when people die any more than it ceases to be serious when people laugh.

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.

Youth is to all the glad season of life; but often only by what it hopes, not by what it attains, or what it escapes.

Football (soccer) is a matter of life and death, except more important.

A journey is a person in itself; no two are alike. And all plans, safeguards, policing, and coercion are fruitless. We find that after years of struggle that we do not take a trip; a trip takes us.

Never throughout history has a man who lived a life of ease left a name worth remembering.

In seeking comfort, we generally find a quiet corner in life where there is a minimum of conflict, and then we are afraid to step out of that seclusion.

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

Life is nothing but a competition to be the criminal rather than the victim.

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.