There is nothing more tragic than to find an individual bogged down in the length of life, devoid of breadth.

Art is parasitic on life, just as criticism is parasitic on art.

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

Bread without flesh is a good diet, as on many botanical excursions I have proved. Tea also may easily be ignored. Just bread and water and delightful toil is all I need – not unreasonably much, yet one ought to be trained and tempered to enjoy life in these brave wilds in full independence of any particular kind of nourishment.

Don’t tell your problems to people: eighty percent don’t care; and the other twenty percent are glad you have them.

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

Life is a lively process of becoming.

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.

I still live, I still think: I still have to live, for I still have to think.

It is dangerous for mortal beauty, or terrestrial virtue, to be examined by too strong a light. The torch of Truth shows much that we cannot, and all that we would not, see.

I don’t look at a man who’s expert in one area as a specialist. I look at him as a rookie in ten other areas.

A man lives by believing something: not by debating and arguing about many things.

Miracles are a retelling in small letters of the very same story which is written across the whole world in letters too large for some of us to see.

Don’t be too timid and squeamish about your actions. All life is an experiment.

I don’t want to get into it, but if you know someone, it doesn’t mean you agree with everything they say or they do.

Ageing’s alright, better than the alternative, which is not being here.

When any calamity has been suffered the first thing to be remembered is, how much has been escaped.

The only time you really live fully is from thirty to sixty. The young are slaves to dreams; the old servants of regrets. Only the middle-aged have all their five senses in the keeping of their wits.

Everything has beauty, but not everyone sees it.

However my parents – both of whom came from impoverished backgrounds and neither of whom had been to college, took the view that my overactive imagination was an amusing quirk that would never pay a mortgage or secure a pension.

The first thing which I can record concerning myself is, that I was born. These are wonderful words. This life, to which neither time nor eternity can bring diminution – this everlasting living soul, began. My mind loses itself in these depths.

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

If you don’t live your life, then who will?

It’s impossible to live a life totally free of feelings. God created all of us to be emotional creatures, and feelings are a big part of our lives.

To a profound pessimist about life, being in danger is not depressing.

Life is a gamble. You can get hurt, but people die in plane crashes, lose their arms and legs in car accidents; people die every day. Same with fighters: some die, some get hurt, some go on. You just don’t let yourself believe it will happen to you.

I am neither bitter nor cynical but I do wish there was less immaturity in political thinking.

Life is really simple, but we insist on making it complicated.

Judgments, value judgments concerning life, for or against, can in the last resort never be true: they possess value only as symptoms, they come into consideration only as symptoms – in themselves such judgments are stupidities.

People who think you could wave a magic wand and the legacy of the past will be over are blind.

Death is just life’s next big adventure.

Golf without bunkers and hazards would be tame and monotonous. So would life.

Without football, my life is worth nothing.

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.

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

Life cannot subsist in society but by reciprocal concessions.

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

We make a living by what we get, but we make a life by what we give.

I can see, and that is why I can be happy, in what you call the dark, but which to me is golden. I can see a God-made world, not a manmade world.

Life is a series of commas, not periods.

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

I would rather live my life as if there is a God and die to find out there isn’t, than live as if there isn’t and to die to find out that there is.

It is not possible to eat me without insisting that I sing praises of my devourer?

Nothing fortifies scepticism more than the fact that there are some who are not sceptics; if all were so, they would be wrong.

One sees great things from the valley; only small things from the peak.

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.

Say not, ‚I have found the truth,‘ but rather, ‚I have found a truth.‘

To be honest, I think kids have got a lot more going on than adults. They’ve got their heads screwed on a lot better.

I think life on Earth must be about more than just solving problems… It’s got to be something inspiring, even if it is vicarious.

In order to understand the world, one has to turn away from it on occasion.

People seem not to see that their opinion of the world is also a confession of character.

Everything is funny, as long as it’s happening to somebody else.

Youth is to all the glad season of life; but often only by what it hopes, not by what it attains, or what it escapes.

It is far harder to kill a phantom than a reality.

Morality is the herd-instinct in the individual.

People talk to people who perceive nothing, who have open eyes and see nothing; they shall talk to them and receive no answer; they shall adore those who have ears and hear nothing; they shall burn lamps for those who do not see.

Without stirring abroad, One can know the whole world; Without looking out of the window One can see the way of heaven. The further one goes The less one knows.

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.

Your living is determined not so much by what life brings to you as by the attitude you bring to life; not so much by what happens to you as by the way your mind looks at what happens.

Men must live and create. Live to the point of tears.

I used to tell my husband that, if he could make me ‚understand‘ something, it would be clear to all the other people in the country.