The fact that our task is exactly commensurate with our life gives it the appearance of being infinite.

Death is not the worst that can happen to men.

A cat is only itself, representative of the strong forces of life that won’t let go.

They are resilient children, but they are children, and as much as they need help to understand the hard truths in life, they also need what we all need – protection and love.

Reality has a way of intruding. Reality eventually intrudes on everything.

There are worse things in life than death. Have you ever spent an evening with an insurance salesman?

Basically, when you get to my age, you’ll really measure your success in life by how many of the people you want to have love you actually do love you.

Our care should not be to have lived long as to have lived enough.

The way to know life is to love many things.

Life is a lively process of becoming.

We are such stuff as dreams are made on; and our little life is rounded with a sleep.

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.

Evil is easy, and has infinite forms.

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.

I think Bible principles are principles for life.

Fame and power are the objects of all men. Even their partial fruition is gained by very few; and that, too, at the expense of social pleasure, health, conscience, life.

Every parting gives a foretaste of death, every reunion a hint of the resurrection.

Actor’s life is very long.

The momentous thing in human life is the art of winning the soul to good or evil.

No one wants to die. Even people who want to go to heaven don’t want to die to get there. And yet death is the destination we all share. No one has ever escaped it. And that is as it should be, because Death is very likely the single best invention of Life. It is Life’s change agent. It clears out the old to make way for the new.

You must understand the whole of life, not just one little part of it. That is why you must read, that is why you must look at the skies, that is why you must sing and dance, and write poems and suffer and understand, for all that is life.

The cost of a thing is the amount of what I will call life which is required to be exchanged for it, immediately or in the long run.

Seventy percent of success in life is showing up.

The figure a poem makes. It begins in delight and ends in wisdom… in a clarification of life – not necessarily a great clarification, such as sects and cults are founded on, but in a momentary stay against confusion.

Jesus lived a life that was full of joy and contradictions and fights, you know? If they were to paint a picture of Jesus without contradictions, the gospels would be fake, but the contradictions are a sign of authenticity.

In such a porcelain life, one likes to be sure that all is well lest one stumble upon one’s hopes in a pile of broken crockery.

Once you fully apprehend the vacuity of a life without struggle, you are equipped with the basic means of salvation.

Life cannot subsist in society but by reciprocal concessions.

A chain is no stronger than its weakest link, and life is after all a chain.

And no, we don’t know where it will lead. We just know there’s something much bigger than any of us here.

Space is almost infinite. As a matter of fact, we think it is infinite.

The great end of life is not knowledge but action.

But what is happiness except the simple harmony between a man and the life he leads?

The object of life is not to be on the side of the majority, but to escape finding oneself in the ranks of the insane.

What would life be if we had no courage to attempt anything?

Is life worth living? It all depends on the liver.

It put our energies to sleep and made visionaries of us – dreamers and indolent… It is good to begin life poor; it is good to begin life rich – these are wholesome; but to begin it prospectively rich! The man who has not experienced it cannot imagine the curse of it.

What sweetness is left in life, if you take away friendship? Robbing life of friendship is like robbing the world of the sun. A true friend is more to be esteemed than kinsfolk.

Nowadays, manners are easy and life is hard.

Let us all remember this: one cannot proclaim the Gospel of Jesus without the tangible witness of one’s life.

I’m not trying to follow a set of rules and stuff. I’m just living my life.

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

Fate pulls you in different directions.

And this, our life, exempt from public haunt, finds tongues in trees, books in the running brooks, sermons in stones, and good in everything.

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

It is often said that before you die your life passes before your eyes. It is in fact true. It’s called living.

A well-written life is almost as rare as a well-spent one.

Things in themselves have no life in them. A car can’t comfort or encourage you. A house means nothing if there’s no life and love inside.

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

Life is the fire that burns and the sun that gives light. Life is the wind and the rain and the thunder in the sky. Life is matter and is earth, what is and what is not, and what beyond is in Eternity.

The happiness of this life depends less on what befalls you than the way in which you take it.

Growing old is like being increasingly penalized for a crime you haven’t committed.

A man ought to read just as inclination leads him, for what he reads as a task will do him little good.

Life is very difficult. One of the most ancient of religious ideas that emerges everywhere, I would say, is that life is essentially suffering.

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

Life is wasted on the living.

When we talk about mortality, we are talking about our children.

So thoroughly and sincerely are we compelled to live, reverencing our life, and denying the possibility of change. This is the only way, we say; but there are as many ways as there can be drawn radii from one centre. All change is a miracle to contemplate; but it is a miracle which is taking place every instant.

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.

We are each made for goodness, love and compassion. Our lives are transformed as much as the world is when we live with these truths.

A particularly beautiful woman is a source of terror. As a rule, a beautiful woman is a terrible disappointment.