The loss of life will be irreplaceable.

Once I knew only darkness and stillness… my life was without past or future… but a little word from the fingers of another fell into my hand that clutched at emptiness, and my heart leaped to the rapture of living.

One of the most basic factors in sports is that winning becomes a habit, and losing is the same way. When failure starts to feel normal in your life or your work or even your darkest vices, you won’t have to go looking for trouble, because trouble will find you. Count on it.

There is no lonelier man in death, except the suicide, than that man who has lived many years with a good wife and then outlived her. If two people love each other there can be no happy end to it.

Life is anything but predictable.

I may not have gone where I intended to go, but I think I have ended up where I intended to be.

To the wise, life is a problem; to the fool, a solution.

There is more to life than increasing its speed.

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

The best thing to hold onto in life is each other.

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.

You get one life. I’m going to embrace mine.

I were better to be eaten to death with a rust than to be scoured to nothing with perpetual motion.

No matter how prepared you think you are for the death of a loved one, it still comes as a shock, and it still hurts very deeply.

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

My life has been long, and believing that life loves the liver of it, I have dared to try many things, sometimes trembling, but daring still.

We can come to look upon the deaths of our enemies with as much regret as we feel for those of our friends, namely, when we miss their existence as witnesses to our success.

Don’t be a spectator, don’t let life pass you by.

Life is wasted on the living.

Life is tragic simply because the earth turns and the sun inexorably rises and sets, and one day, for each of us, the sun will go down for the last, last time.

If a man or woman is born ten years sooner or later, their whole aspect and performance shall be different.

In this world nothing can be said to be certain, except death and taxes.

When life is too easy for us, we must beware or we may not be ready to meet the blows which sooner or later come to everyone, rich or poor.

There’s an ecstatic side to writing. It’s like jazz. It just has a life.

One life is all we have and we live it as we believe in living it. But to sacrifice what you are and to live without belief, that is a fate more terrible than dying.

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

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.

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

Poetry is about the grief. Politics is about the grievance.

The great end of life is not knowledge but action.

Grief can take care if itself, but to get the full value of a joy you must have somebody to divide it with.

Our lifelong certainties about the world can be demolished in a single second.

I never felt settled or calm. You can’t really commit to life when you feel that.

Grief is the price we pay for love.

No man lives without jostling and being jostled; in all ways he has to elbow himself through the world, giving and receiving offence.

In order to speak about all and to all, one has to speak of what all know and of the reality common to us all. The sea, rains, necessity, desire, the struggle against death… these are things that unite us all.

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

I’m always relieved when someone is delivering a eulogy and I realize I’m listening to it.

The courage of life is often a less dramatic spectacle than the courage of a final moment; but it is no less a magnificent mixture of triumph and tragedy.

When Clark Gable died, I cried for 2 days straight. I couldn’t eat or sleep.

To run away from trouble is a form of cowardice and, while it is true that the suicide braves death, he does it not for some noble object but to escape some ill.

I don’t want to achieve immortality through my work. I want to achieve it through not dying.

Death means change our clothes. Clothes become old, then time to come change. So this body become old, and then time come, take young body.

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.

Life is abundant, and life is beautiful. And it’s a good place that we’re all in, you know, on this earth, if we take care of it.

Bullfighting is the only art in which the artist is in danger of death and in which the degree of brilliance in the performance is left to the fighter’s honor.

My whole life has been one big improvisation.

Life is too short for long-term grudges.

There will be no lasting peace either in the heart of individuals or in social customs until death is outlawed.

I expected to die. At no time before the trial did I expect to escape with my life. Yet being executed in the gas chamber did not necessarily mean defeat. It could be one more step to bring the community to a higher level of consciousness.

The honor of a nation is its life.

The only way to take sorrow out of death is to take love out of life.

‚I wish life was not so short,‘ he thought. ‚Languages take such a time, and so do all the things one wants to know about.‘

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

I’ve looked that old scoundrel death in the eye many times but this time I think he has me on the ropes.

All theory, dear friend, is gray, but the golden tree of life springs ever green.

I believe everyone should have a good death. You know, with your grandchildren around you, a bit of sobbing. Because after all, tears are appropriate on a death bed. And you say goodbye to your loved ones, making certain that one of them has been left behind to look after the shop.

We think that life develops spontaneously on Earth, so it must be possible for life to develop on suitable planets elsewhere in the universe. But we don’t know the probability that a planet develops life.

The aim of life is appreciation; there is no sense in not appreciating things; and there is no sense in having more of them if you have less appreciation of them.

Those who have never known the deep intimacy and the intense companionship of mutual love have missed the best thing that life has to give.

I think any life can be interesting, any surroundings can be interesting. I don’t think I could have been so brave if I had been living in a town, competing with people on what can be called a generally higher cultural level.