There’s place and means for every man alive.

To be idle is a short road to death and to be diligent is a way of life; foolish people are idle, wise people are diligent.

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

The boundaries which divide Life from Death are at best shadowy and vague. Who shall say where the one ends, and where the other begins?

The day which we fear as our last is but the birthday of eternity.

You must understand the whole of life, not just one little part of it. That is why you must read, that is why you must look at the skies, that is why you must sing and dance, and write poems and suffer and understand, for all that is life.

So long as the universe had a beginning, we could suppose it had a creator. But if the universe is really completely self-contained, having no boundary or edge, it would have neither beginning nor end: it would simply be. What place, then, for a creator?

Without music, life would be a mistake.

He only earns his freedom and his life Who takes them every day by storm.

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

Favor comes because for a brief moment in the great space of human change and progress some general human purpose finds in him a satisfactory embodiment.

Fate pulls you in different directions.

I don’t want to make money; I want to make a difference.

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.

All life is an experiment. The more experiments you make the better.

Enlightenment is always there. Small enlightenment will bring great enlightenment. If you breathe in and are aware that you are alive – that you can touch the miracle of being alive – then that is a kind of enlightenment.

The basic fact about human existence is not that it is a tragedy, but that it is a bore. It is not so much a war as an endless standing in line.

Football (soccer) is a matter of life and death, except more important.

I do not have much patience with a thing of beauty that must be explained to be understood. If it does need additional interpretation by someone other than the creator, then I question whether it has fulfilled its purpose.

Good is positive. Evil is merely privative, not absolute: it is like cold, which is the privation of heat. All evil is so much death or nonentity. Benevolence is absolute and real. So much benevolence as a man hath, so much life hath he.

Life is a dead-end street.

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.

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

For life and death are one, even as the river and the sea are one.

Consistency is contrary to nature, contrary to life. The only completely consistent people are dead.

I have retired, but if there’s anything that would kill me it is to wake up in the morning not knowing what to do.

The propagandist’s purpose is to make one set of people forget that certain other sets of people are human.

True virtue is life under the direction of reason.

We are each made for goodness, love and compassion. Our lives are transformed as much as the world is when we live with these truths.

To live outside the law, you must be honest.

From the middle of life onward, only he remains vitally alive who is ready to die with life.

Most sets of values would give rise to universes that, although they might be very beautiful, would contain no one able to wonder at that beauty.

I existed from all eternity and, behold, I am here; and I shall exist till the end of time, for my being has no end.

Basically, when you get to my age, you’ll really measure your success in life by how many of the people you want to have love you actually do love you.

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

Art’s everything we hope life would be, a lot of times.

Writing makes you feel that there is a reason to go on living. If I couldn’t write, I would stop breathing.

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

Death to me means nothing as long as I can die fast.

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.

Because of your smile, you make life more beautiful.

If a man loses his reverence for any part of life, he will lose his reverence for all of life.

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.

While I thought that I was learning how to live, I have been learning how to die.

We all live with the objective of being happy; our lives are all different and yet the same.

Every existing thing is born without reason, prolongs itself out of weakness, and dies by chance.

In war, you win or lose, live or die – and the difference is just an eyelash.

Do you know the only value life has is what life puts on itself?

It is better to die than to preserve this life by incurring disgrace. The loss of life causes but a moment’s grief, but disgrace brings grief every day of one’s life.

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

Some desire is necessary to keep life in motion, and he whose real wants are supplied must admit those of fancy.

Sleep is the interest we have to pay on the capital which is called in at death; and the higher the rate of interest and the more regularly it is paid, the further the date of redemption is postponed.

To be in any way a positive contribution, that’s all anybody wants to be. It’s all I’ve ever wanted to be. I wanted to be an artist, be a mother. You want to feel that in your life you’ve been of use, in whatever way that comes out.

Everybody’s youth is a dream, a form of chemical madness.

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

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

When you go on your Twitter or look down your Timeline and it’s all great positivity – I love that. But at the same time, it can really divert you from what your purpose is or what you’re trying to do. And I’ve seen artists get caught up in that.

Except for the young or very happy, I can’t say I am sorry for anyone who dies.

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.

A man is born alone and dies alone; and he experiences the good and bad consequences of his karma alone; and he goes alone to hell or the Supreme abode.

I always knew who I was, and I always ran from my true purpose… I know what my job is. And I always ran from it.