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

Our character is not so much the product of race and heredity as of those circumstances by which nature forms our habits, by which we are nurtured and live.

I suppose, in a way, this has become part of my soul. It is a symbol of my life. Whatever I have done that really matters, I’ve done wearing it. When the time comes, it will be in this that I journey forth. What greater honor could come to an American, and a soldier?

When you arise in the morning, think of what a precious privilege it is to be alive – to breathe, to think, to enjoy, to love.

Life is warfare.

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.

Life’s short. Anything could happen, and it usually does, so there is no point in sitting around thinking about all the ifs, ands and buts.

Our life is made by the death of others.

I am sorry to say that there is too much point to the wisecrack that life is extinct on other planets because their scientists were more advanced than ours.

The measure of a life, after all, is not its duration, but its donation.

I do think there must be some kind of interaction between your living life and the life that goes on from here.

It’s not catastrophes, murders, deaths, diseases, that age and kill us; it’s the way people look and laugh, and run up the steps of omnibuses.

I want you to feel happy and enjoy the theatre of my life the way that I do. No matter what happens with my music and wherever I go – that heart of that glamorous girl in New York will never be gone.

One can survive everything, nowadays, except death, and live down everything except a good reputation.

I have lived long enough to satisfy both nature and glory.

Regarding life, the wisest men of all ages have judged alike: it is worthless.

In business or in life, don’t follow the wagon tracks too closely.

My whole life has been one big improvisation.

If life is a checker game, someone else is moving the pieces. It isn’t us. Don’t be surprised by amazing coincidences. There are no accidents. Consider, as I learned to do, the incredible interconnectedness of all of life.

Everything passes. Nobody gets anything for keeps. And that’s how we’ve got to live.

I make preparations both to live and to die every day, but with the emphasis on not dying, and on acting as if I was going to carry on living.

Almost everybody is born a genius and buried an idiot.

Music is either sacred or secular. The sacred agrees with its dignity, and here has its greatest effect on life, an effect that remains the same through all ages and epochs. Secular music should be cheerful throughout.

Fantasy is a necessary ingredient in living, it’s a way of looking at life through the wrong end of a telescope, and that enables you to laugh at life’s realities.

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

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

To me, if life boils down to one thing, it’s movement. To live is to keep moving.

Forty is the old age of youth, fifty is the youth of old age.

Death is the king of this world: ‚Tis his park where he breeds life to feed him. Cries of pain are music for his banquet.

I don’t think that you can be prescriptive about anything, I mean, life is too complicated. Maybe there are novels where the author has not in the least thought about it in terms of film, which can be turned into good films.

We live in a bewildering world.

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.

The golden moments in the stream of life rush past us, and we see nothing but sand; the angels come to visit us, and we only know them when they are gone.

One always dies too soon or too late. And yet, life is there, finished: the line is drawn, and it must all be added up. You are nothing other than your life.

Most of the change we think we see in life is due to truths being in and out of favor.

Liverpool is a club with a big, big, big history, and all the clubs in the world have a big history if the present is not too successful. If you have never had success, then nobody knows how it is, but in Liverpool, everybody knows how it was.

We all want to win more, but it’s all about being blessed and embracing your blessings. We have life.

I have rules for a lot of areas of my life. Love is not going to be one of them.

Absence and death are the same – only that in death there is no suffering.

I’m more of a realist when it comes to life, and I’d much rather my mother be in a spiritual place in Heaven than in a bed, sick, fighting for her life.

The true object of all human life is play. Earth is a task garden; heaven is a playground.

Our heart glows, and secret unrest gnaws at the root of our being. Dealing with the unconscious has become a question of life for us.

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

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.

As we advance in life it becomes more and more difficult, but in fighting the difficulties the inmost strength of the heart is developed.

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.

Life is never fair, and perhaps it is a good thing for most of us that it is not.

Akron, Ohio, is my home. It will always be remembered. Akron, Ohio, is my life.

One cannot and must not try to erase the past merely because it does not fit the present.

I sometimes wish I were suffering in a good cause, or risking my life for the good of others, instead of just being a gravely endangered patient.

Life must be lived as play.

Life is anything but predictable.

In a magazine, one can get – from cover to cover – 15 to 20 different ideas about life and how to live it.

I joyfully hasten to meet death. If it come before I have had opportunity to develop all my artistic faculties, it will come, my hard fate notwithstanding, too soon, and I should probably wish it later – yet even then I shall be happy, for will it not deliver me from a state of endless suffering?

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

There is no love of life without despair of life.

Life is essentially a cheat and its conditions are those of defeat; the redeeming things are not happiness and pleasure but the deeper satisfactions that come out of struggle.

Acting is just a way of making a living, the family is life.

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

Life in general has never been even close to fair, so the pretense that the government can make it fair is a valuable and inexhaustible asset to politicians who want to expand government.

Life would be tragic if it weren’t funny.