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

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.

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

That’s the shock: All cliches are true. The years really do speed by. Life really is as short as they tell you it is. And there really is a God – so do I buy that one? If all the other cliches are true… Hell, don’t pose me that one.

One day it will be over, and I don’t care.

It is one of the beautiful compensations in this life that no one can sincerely try to help another without helping himself.

I no longer feel attracted to the well-made novel. I want to write the story that will zero in and give you intense, but not connected, moments of experience. I guess that’s the way I see life. People remake themselves bit by bit and do things they don’t understand.

When I was younger, I felt pressure to become someone else once I became successful.

The life which men praise and regard as successful is but one kind. Why should we exaggerate any one kind at the expense of the others?

There is nothing so pitiful as a young cynic because he has gone from knowing nothing to believing nothing.

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

Life comes with many challenges. The ones that should not scare us are the ones we can take on and take control of.

Death is no more than passing from one room into another. But there’s a difference for me, you know. Because in that other room I shall be able to see.

Could the young but realize how soon they will become mere walking bundles of habits, they would give more heed to their conduct while in the plastic state.

Our greatest happiness does not depend on the condition of life in which chance has placed us, but is always the result of a good conscience, good health, occupation, and freedom in all just pursuits.

The foundation of every state is the education of its youth.

We all gonna die eventually from something or other, but don’t be a wimp. Put up a good fight.

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

As is a tale, so is life: not how long it is, but how good it is, is what matters.

The universe is transformation: life is opinion.

One of the most basic factors in sports is that winning becomes a habit, and losing is the same way. When failure starts to feel normal in your life or your work or even your darkest vices, you won’t have to go looking for trouble, because trouble will find you. Count on it.

You have to take risks. We will only understand the miracle of life fully when we allow the unexpected to happen.

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

I should have no objection to go over the same life from its beginning to the end: requesting only the advantage authors have, of correcting in a second edition the faults of the first.

Everybody is going to have their critics. It’s easy to get discouraged in life.

When I was young I thought that money was the most important thing in life; now that I am old I know that it is.

Men can only be happy when they do not assume that the object of life is happiness.

For me, there are two types of people: the young and the experienced.

It is foolish and wrong to mourn the men who died. Rather we should thank God that such men lived.

The purpose of a vacation is to have the time to rest. But many of us, even when we go on vacation, don’t know how to rest. We may even come back more tired than before we left.

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.

The fact that our task is exactly commensurate with our life gives it the appearance of being infinite.

Just as the humble, unassuming, assenting ‚O.K.‘ has deposed the more affirmative ‚Yes,‘ so the little cringe and hesitation and approximation of ‚like‘ are a help to young people who are struggling to negotiate the shoals and rapids of ethnic identity, the street, and general correctness.

Few of us have vitality enough to make any of our instincts imperious.

The good part about youngsters is that they are so fearless. You want to be like them.

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

Hope travels through, nor quits us when we die.

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.

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.

Life’s a fight. It’s a good fight of faith.

Our existence is beyond our explanation, whether we believe in God or we have religion or we’re atheist. Our existence is beyond our understanding. No one has an answer.

For modes of faith let graceless zealots fight, His can’t be wrong whose life is in the right.

I’m really looking forward to seeing what life brings to me.

To fear love is to fear life, and those who fear life are already three parts dead.

People think, because we’re young, we aren’t complex, but that’s not true. We deal with life and love and broken hearts in the same way a woman a few years older might.

But I think there are a set of experiences that turn a potential writer into a working writer, and then there are places in your life were you start to recognize what you want to do.

A youth, when at home, should be filial and, abroad, respectful to his elders. He should be earnest and truthful. He should overflow in love to all and cultivate the friendship of the good. When he has time and opportunity, after the performance of these things, he should employ them in polite studies.

For me, writing has always come out of living a fairly to-the-bone kind of life, just really being present to a lot of life. The writing has been really a byproduct of that.

The Youth of a Nation are the trustees of posterity.

I have always reckoned the dignity of the republic of first importance and preferable to life.

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

My work is about my life, and what I want to do with it.

In order to acquire a growing and lasting respect in society, it is a good thing, if you possess great talent, to give, early in your youth, a very hard kick to the right shin of the society that you love. After that, be a snob.

If we don’t know life, how can we know death?

The stars shall fade away, the sun himself Grow dim with age, and nature sink in years, But thou shalt flourish in immortal youth, Unhurt amidst the wars of elements, The wrecks of matter, and the crush of worlds.

My life is the road, man. I need to keep moving.

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.

I love life because what more is there?

There is no love of life without despair of life.

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.

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.