There’s no tragedy in life like the death of a child. Things never get back to the way they were.

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

To lose one parent may be regarded as a misfortune; to lose both looks like carelessness.

The charm of fame is so great that we like every object to which it is attached, even death.

Censorship is the tool of those who have the need to hide actualities from themselves and from others. Their fear is only their inability to face what is real, and I can’t vent any anger against them; I only feel this appalling sadness. Somewhere in their upbringing, they were shielded against the total facts of our existence.

Imagination is everything. It is the preview of life’s coming attractions.

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

But what is happiness except the simple harmony between a man and the life he leads?

Without music, life would be a mistake.

It’s not morbid to talk about death. Most people don’t worry about death, they worry about a bad death.

Life is the childhood of our immortality.

Grief is the agony of an instant; the indulgence of grief the blunder of a life.

Religion was instituted to make us happy in this life and in the other. What must we do to be happy in the life to come? Be just.

When I die, and people realize that I will not be resurrected in three days, they will forget me. That is the way it should be.

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.

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

You must not fear death, my lads; defy him, and you drive him into the enemy’s ranks.

If you die you’re completely happy and your soul somewhere lives on. I’m not afraid of dying. Total peace after death, becoming someone else is the best hope I’ve got.

The God who gave us life, gave us liberty at the same time.

Isn’t it funny how babies laugh a lot? I read a toddler, a young child laughs 300 times a day. The average adult laughs, like, four times a day. God put it in them. He put the laugh in us, but I think sometimes we let life get us down, you know, have bad breaks, and we lose our breaks.

The Indian Summer of life should be a little sunny and a little sad, like the season, and infinite in wealth and depth of tone, but never hustled.

We love life, not because we are used to living but because we are used to loving.

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.

I believe that everyone experiences depression to some degree at some time in their lives. And there are probably millions of people who live with a low level of sadness and heaviness day in and day out.

Actor’s life is very long.

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.

If you can feel that Mother Earth is in you, and you are Mother Earth, then you are not any longer afraid to die because the earth is not dying. Like a wave appears and disappears and appears again.

Great tragedy has come to us, and we are meeting it with the best that is in our country, with courage and concern for others because this is America. This is who we are.

Accept the terrible responsibility of life with eyes wide open.

Against eternal injustice, man must assert justice, and to protest against the universe of grief, he must create happiness.

The most important question in the world is, ‚Why is the child crying?‘

I believe life is an intelligent thing: that things aren’t random.

Each life makes its own immitation of immortality.

Once you fully apprehend the vacuity of a life without struggle, you are equipped with the basic means of salvation.

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.

Without pain, there would be no suffering, without suffering we would never learn from our mistakes. To make it right, pain and suffering is the key to all windows, without it, there is no way of life.

The feeling about a soldier is, when all is said and done, he wasn’t really going to do very much with his life anyway. The example usually is: he wasn’t going to compose Beethoven’s Fifth.

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.

Life belongs to the living, and he who lives must be prepared for changes.

After the 9/11 apocalypse happened in New York City, people, particularly New Yorkers, who breathed in the ash, or saw the results of that, have a tendency to keep seeing echoes and having flashbacks to it.

May you live your life as if the maxim of your actions were to become universal law.

If you have tears, prepare to shed them now.

If you have the opportunity to play this game of life you need to appreciate every moment. A lot of people don’t appreciate the moment until it’s passed.

I just have an enthusiasm for life.

Some mystery should be left in the revelation of character in a play, just as a great deal of mystery is always left in the revelation of character in life, even in one’s own character to himself.

Courage is the price that life exacts for granting peace.

After your death you will be what you were before your birth.

It put our energies to sleep and made visionaries of us – dreamers and indolent… It is good to begin life poor; it is good to begin life rich – these are wholesome; but to begin it prospectively rich! The man who has not experienced it cannot imagine the curse of it.

Man alone is born crying, lives complaining, and dies disappointed.

The first forty years of life give us the text; the next thirty supply the commentary on it.

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.

To be renewed is everything. What more could one ask for than to have one’s youth back again?

Our life is what our thoughts make it.

The compensation of a very early success is a conviction that life is a romantic matter. In the best sense one stays young.

It is not death that a man should fear, but he should fear never beginning to live.

Republicans understand the importance of bondage between a mother and child.

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.

I suppose that’s one of the ironies of life doing the wrong thing at the right moment.

People who don’t like my work say that the connections seem too arbitrary. But that’s how life is.

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.

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.