There is always a present and extant life, be it better or worse, which all combine to uphold.

Courage is almost a contradiction in terms. It means a strong desire to live taking the form of readiness to die.

Europe has what we do not have yet, a sense of the mysterious and inexorable limits of life, a sense, in a word, of tragedy. And we have what they sorely need: a sense of life’s possibilities.

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 a man had more than one life, I think a little hanging would not hurt this one; but after he is once dead, we cannot bring him back, no matter how sorry we may be; so the boy shall be pardoned.

If life gives you limes, make margaritas.

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

And were an epitaph to be my story I’d have a short one ready for my own. I would have written of me on my stone: I had a lover’s quarrel with the world.

Life is grim, and we don’t have to be grim all the time.

Getting money is not all a man’s business: to cultivate kindness is a valuable part of the business of life.

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

To the well-organized mind, death is but the next great adventure.

I’m 31 now. I think I’m beginning to understand what life is, what romance is, and what a relationship means.

First and foremost comes my family and my life with Brad. We have so much joy in raising our children and teaching them about the world that nothing really compares to that.

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.

The mass of men lead lives of quiet desperation. What is called resignation is confirmed desperation.

Life would be infinitely happier if we could only be born at the age of eighty and gradually approach eighteen.

Just as courage is the danger of life, so is fear its safeguard.

This has always been my life and no one else’s, and that’s how it’s always been since the day I came in it.

To live without Hope is to Cease to live.

Life is to be lived. If you have to support yourself, you had bloody well better find some way that is going to be interesting. And you don’t do that by sitting around.

Life is either a great adventure or nothing.

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.

And die of nothing but a rage to live.

The good parts of a book may be only something a writer is lucky enough to overhear or it may be the wreck of his whole damn life and one is as good as the other.

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.

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.

All my life affection has been showered upon me, and every forward step I have made has been taken in spite of it.

Life is an exciting business, and most exciting when it is lived for others.

Because of your smile, you make life more beautiful.

Life contains but two tragedies. One is not to get your heart’s desire; the other is to get it.

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

Life is hard. After all, it kills you.

The Congo was the most difficult shoot of my life but was also maybe the greatest adventure of my 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.

The experience of democracy is like the experience of life itself-always changing, infinite in its variety, sometimes turbulent and all the more valuable for having been tested by adversity.

The one charm about marriage is that it makes a life of deception absolutely necessary for both parties.

I pass my life in preventing the storm from blowing down the tent, and I drive in the pegs as fast as they are pulled up.

As a general rule, the most successful man in life is the man who has the best information.

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

Nobody, as long as he moves about among the chaotic currents of life, is without trouble.

In modern life nothing produces such an effect as a good platitude. It makes the whole world kin.

Old age is like everything else. To make a success of it, you’ve got to start young.

I think Bible principles are principles for life.

The secret of life is honesty and fair dealing. If you can fake that, you’ve got it made.

Let man live at a distance from God, and the universe remains neutral or hostile to him. But let man believe in God, and immediately all around him the elements, even the irksome, of the inevitable organize themselves into a friendly whole, ordered to the ultimate success of life.

Life is an unfoldment, and the further we travel the more truth we can comprehend. To understand the things that are at our door is the best preparation for understanding those that lie beyond.

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

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

We are all born for love. It is the principle of existence, and its only end.

Life is not a series of gig lamps symmetrically arranged; life is a luminous halo, a semi-transparent envelope surrounding us from the beginning of consciousness to the end.

A life spent making mistakes is not only more honorable, but more useful than a life spent doing nothing.

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

My life is real.

The drama and the trauma of the relationship you have when you’re 16 can mirror the one you have when you’re 26. Life repeats itself.

Darn the wheel of the world! Why must it continually turn over? Where is the reverse gear?

To not follow your passion in life is a recipe for failure and unhappiness.

Among the many values in life, I appreciate freedom most.

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.

Getting older is no problem. You just have to live long enough.

The last act is bloody, however pleasant all the rest of the play is: a little earth is thrown at last upon our head, and that is the end forever.