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

Time stays, we go.

Only a life lived for others is a life worthwhile.

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.

Over the centuries, mankind has tried many ways of combating the forces of evil… prayer, fasting, good works and so on. Up until Doom, no one seemed to have thought about the double-barrel shotgun. Eat leaden death, demon.

The mediator of the inexpressible is the work of art.

If you think only of evil, then you become pessimistic and hopeless like Freud. But if you think there is no evil, then you’re just one more deluded Pollyanna.

For time and the world do not stand still. Change is the law of life. And those who look only to the past or the present are certain to miss the future.

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

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

I’m half living my life between reality and fantasy at all times. It’s best not to ask questions and just enjoy.

O, you men who think or say that I am malevolent, stubborn or misanthropic, how greatly do you wrong me. You do not know the secret cause which makes me seem that way to you, and I would have ended my life – it was only my art that held me back. Ah, it seemed impossible to leave the world until I had brought forth all that I felt was within me.

I definitely connected to the fact that life gets out of control and you end up doing things and wishing you were doing other things instead.

Every step of life shows much caution is required.

Life affords no higher pleasure than that of surmounting difficulties, passing from one step of success to another, forming new wishes and seeing them gratified.

Music is the mediator between the spiritual and the sensual life.

In war as in life, it is often necessary when some cherished scheme has failed, to take up the best alternative open, and if so, it is folly not to work for it with all your might.

For what shall it profit a man, if he gain the whole world, and suffer the loss of his soul?

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.

To be awake is to be alive.

If he have faith, the believer cannot be restrained. He betrays himself. He breaks out. He confesses and teaches this gospel to the people at the risk of life itself.

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.

There is no love of life without despair of life.

Life’s a fight. It’s a good fight of faith.

Only those are fit to live who are not afraid to die.

There is nothing that makes its way more directly into the soul than beauty.

Security is mostly a superstition. It does not exist in nature, nor do the children of men as a whole experience it. Avoiding danger is no safer in the long run than outright exposure. Life is either a daring adventure, or nothing.

A guilty conscience needs to confess. A work of art is a confession.

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.

A consistent soul believes in destiny, a capricious one in chance.

Sometimes I think that there’s a fine line between impressionistic and messy.

I love sleep. My life has the tendency to fall apart when I’m awake, you know?

The greatest discovery of my generation is that a human being can alter his life by altering his attitudes.

It is more fitting for a man to laugh at life than to lament over it.

I’ll die a crazy old man!

It seems almost backwards to me that my music seems the more emotional outlet, and the art stuff seems more about ideas.

Life is ten percent what happens to you and ninety percent how you respond to it.

I was very into making the Big Artistic Statement – it had to be innovative; it had to be cutting edge. I was desperately keen on being original.

We should all start to live before we get too old.

The life so short, the craft so long to learn.

My favorite things in life don’t cost any money. It’s really clear that the most precious resource we all have is time.

Life’s a rollercoaster. You’re up one minute; you’re down one minute. But who doesn’t like rollercoasters?

If you stop struggling, then you stop life.

It is a fact that cannot be denied: the wickedness of others becomes our own wickedness because it kindles something evil in our own hearts.

There is no more fatal blunderer than he who consumes the greater part of his life getting his living.

There are too many accidents that can befall life on a single planet.

Most of our lives aren’t that exciting, but the drama is still going on in the small details.

Civilisations have been destroyed many times, and this civilisation is no different. It can be destroyed. We can think of time in terms of millions of years and life will resume little by little. The cosmos operates for us very urgently, but geological time is different.

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.

The life of an uneducated man is as useless as the tail of a dog which neither covers its rear end, nor protects it from the bites of insects.

There’s a rebel lying deep in my soul.

Life is a tragedy when seen in close-up, but a comedy in long-shot.

My definition of country music is really pretty simple. It’s when someone sings about their life and what they know, from an authentic place.

Life is our dictionary.

The countenance is the portrait of the soul, and the eyes mark its intentions.

A critic should be taught to criticise a work of art without making any reference to the personality of the author.

A word is dead when it is said, some say. I say it just begins to live that day.

There is no wealth but life.

My days, my years, my life has seen up and downs, lights and darknesses. If I wrote only and continually of the ‚light‘ and never mentioned the other, then as an artist, I would be a liar.

A room without books is like a body without a soul.

Sleeping is no mean art: for its sake one must stay awake all day.