The boundaries which divide Life from Death are at best shadowy and vague. Who shall say where the one ends, and where the other begins?

The fear of death is the most unjustified of all fears, for there’s no risk of accident for someone who’s dead.

You must not fear death, my lads; defy him, and you drive him into the enemy’s ranks.

It’s not proper for the government to intrude too thoroughly into the domain of the family. It’s inappropriate.

To go to the world below, having a soul which is like a vessel full of injustice, is the last and worst of all the evils.

Habit is a second nature that destroys the first. But what is nature? Why is habit not natural? I am very much afraid that nature itself is only a first habit, just as habit is a second nature.

Please think of me like an endangered species and just observe me quietly from far away. If you try to talk to me or touch me casually, I may get intimidated and bite you. So please be careful.

Men’s ideas are the most direct emanations of their material state.

‚Happiness‘ is a pointless goal.

What we call Man’s power over Nature turns out to be a power exercised by some men over other men with Nature as its instrument.

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

I argue thee that love is life. And life hath immortality.

A life without adventure is likely to be unsatisfying, but a life in which adventure is allowed to take whatever form it will is sure to be short.

If you can be well without health, you may be happy without virtue.

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

My life is mine to remember.

I have noticed even people who claim everything is predestined, and that we can do nothing to change it, look before they cross the road.

That’s the shock: All cliches are true. The years really do speed by. Life really is as short as they tell you it is. And there really is a God – so do I buy that one? If all the other cliches are true… Hell, don’t pose me that one.

But we try to pretend, you see, that the external world exists altogether independently of us.

When death, the great reconciler, has come, it is never our tenderness that we repent of, but our severity.

Whatsoever is, is in God, and without God nothing can be, or be conceived.

Every man is more than just himself; he also represents the unique, the very special and always significant and remarkable point at which the world’s phenomena intersect, only once in this way, and never again.

A human being would certainly not grow to be seventy or eighty years old if this longevity had no meaning for the species. The afternoon of human life must also have a significance of its own and cannot be merely a pitiful appendage to life’s morning.

If to do were as easy as to know what were good to do, chapels had been churches, and poor men’s cottage princes‘ palaces.

For me life is continuously being hungry. The meaning of life is not simply to exist, to survive, but to move ahead, to go up, to achieve, to conquer.

Necessity is not an established fact, but an interpretation.

Doubt is not a pleasant condition, but certainty is absurd.

I don’t see myself as a philosopher. That’s awfully boring.

Although nature commences with reason and ends in experience it is necessary for us to do the opposite, that is to commence with experience and from this to proceed to investigate the reason.

You either get tired fighting for peace, or you die.

Nothing in the universe is contingent, but all things are conditioned to exist and operate in a particular manner by the necessity of the divine nature.

The foot feels the foot when it feels the ground.

All that seems indispensible in stating the account between the dead and the living, is to see that the debts against the latter do not exceed the advances made by the former.

Death is not the worst that can happen to men.

My work is about my life, and what I want to do with it.

If particulars are to have meaning, there must be universals.

If human beings were shown what they’re really like, they’d either kill one another as vermin, or hang themselves.

Nothing is more terrible than activity without insight.

I believe that every human has a finite number of heartbeats. I don’t intend to waste any of mine running around doing exercises.

I decided, very early on, just to accept life unconditionally; I never expected it to do anything special for me, yet I seemed to accomplish far more than I had ever hoped. Most of the time it just happened to me without my ever seeking it.

What then do you call your soul? What idea have you of it? You cannot of yourselves, without revelation, admit the existence within you of anything but a power unknown to you of feeling and thinking.

The brain is wider than the sky.

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

All men’s miseries derive from not being able to sit in a quiet room alone.

Atheism is a non-prophet organization.

Exaggeration is truth that has lost its temper.

Life is an unanswered question, but let’s still believe in the dignity and importance of the question.

The desire to annoy no one, to harm no one, can equally well be the sign of a just as of an anxious disposition.

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

Man is not the sum of what he has already, but rather the sum of what he does not yet have, of what he could have.

I want to know why the universe exists, why there is something greater than nothing.

To be renewed is everything. What more could one ask for than to have one’s youth back again?

Between falsehood and useless truth there is little difference. As gold which he cannot spend will make no man rich, so knowledge which cannot apply will make no man wise.

I’ve been fortunate to have had the life I had prior to Hollywood. I wasn’t starving; I was going to eat the next day.

Chaos often breeds life, when order breeds habit.

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.

It is better to have your head in the clouds, and know where you are… than to breathe the clearer atmosphere below them, and think that you are in paradise.

There was something undifferentiated and yet complete, which existed before Heaven and Earth. Soundless and formless, it depends on nothing and does not change. It operates everywhere and is free from danger. It may be considered the mother of the universe. I do not know its name; I call it Tao.

The tragedy of life is what dies inside a man while he lives.

Without health life is not life; it is only a state of langour and suffering – an image of death.

Obviously, there’s a part of me that takes the world of violence and death very seriously. However, when it comes to protection, or when it comes to just the skill of shooting… I’ve gone to the range with sniper rifles and things like that.