life quotes

The truth is I love being alive. And I love feeling free. So if I can’t have those things then I feel like a caged animal and I’d rather not be in a cage. I’d rather be dead. And it’s real simple. And I think it’s not that uncommon.

What do you want a meaning for? Life is a desire, not a meaning.

Mendacity is a system that we live in. Liquor is one way out an death’s the other.

Change alone is unchanging.

My friends ask me if I want more kids, and I always say yes, I want more; it’s the best thing you can have in your life.

I don’t think that faith, whatever you’re being faithful about, really can be scientifically explained. And I don’t want to explain this whole life business through truth, science. There’s so much mystery. There’s so much awe.

All that I know about my life, it seems, I have learned in books.

My focus is to forget the pain of life. Forget the pain, mock the pain, reduce it. And laugh.

I think, often, people who run away are people who got into things most enthusiastically, and then they want more. They just demand more of life than what is happening in the moment. Sometimes this is a great mistake, as it’s always a good deal different than you expect it.

The more sand has escaped from the hourglass of our life, the clearer we should see through it.

On life’s vast ocean diversely we sail. Reasons the card, but passion the gale.

It is in life as it is in ways, the shortest way is commonly the foulest, and surely the fairer way is not much about.

This is the truth: as from a fire aflame thousands of sparks come forth, even so from the Creator an infinity of beings have life and to him return again.

Enthusiasm is the most important thing in life.

Fate pulls you in different directions.

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

Constant development is the law of life, and a man who always tries to maintain his dogmas in order to appear consistent drives himself into a false position.

Death may be the greatest of all human blessings.

I love sleep. My life has the tendency to fall apart when I’m awake, you know?

Success in life is founded upon attention to the small things rather than to the large things; to the every day things nearest to us rather than to the things that are remote and uncommon.

If my doctor told me I had only six minutes to live, I wouldn’t brood. I’d type a little faster.

The life of an uneducated man is as useless as the tail of a dog which neither covers its rear end, nor protects it from the bites of insects.

There are three constants in life… change, choice and principles.

If I make music and people hate it, you know, whatever. I’ll die someday, and one day, they will too.

There are two means of refuge from the miseries of life: music and cats.

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.

Every parting gives a foretaste of death, every reunion a hint of the resurrection.

Just as a candle cannot burn without fire, men cannot live without a spiritual life.

Life doesn’t imitate art, it imitates bad television.

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.

My life is a struggle.

My days, my years, my life has seen up and downs, lights and darknesses. If I wrote only and continually of the ‚light‘ and never mentioned the other, then as an artist, I would be a liar.

And die of nothing but a rage to live.

They are resilient children, but they are children, and as much as they need help to understand the hard truths in life, they also need what we all need – protection and love.

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.

A chain is no stronger than its weakest link, and life is after all a chain.

Most of one’s life is one prolonged effort to prevent oneself thinking.

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.

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

It is impossible to live without failing at something, unless you live so cautiously that you might as well not have lived at all, in which case you have failed by default.

First and foremost comes my family and my life with Brad. We have so much joy in raising our children and teaching them about the world that nothing really compares to that.

The greatest destroyer of peace is abortion because if a mother can kill her own child, what is left for me to kill you and you to kill me? There is nothing between.

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

For time is the longest distance between two places.

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

It all went wrong with football, the thing I loved most of all, and from there, my life slowly fell apart.

I can do no other than be reverent before everything that is called life. I can do no other than to have compassion for all that is called life. That is the beginning and the foundation of all ethics.

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

Sometimes I think it would be easier to avoid old age, to die young, but then you’d never complete your life, would you? You’d never wholly know you.

It’s life isn’t it? You plow ahead and make a hit. And you plow on and someone passes you. Then someone passes them. Time levels.

You can never really live anyone else’s life, not even your child’s. The influence you exert is through your own life, and what you’ve become yourself.

Life is warfare.

When we remember we are all mad, the mysteries disappear and life stands explained.

In everyone’s life, at some time, our inner fire goes out. It is then burst into flame by an encounter with another human being. We should all be thankful for those people who rekindle the inner spirit.

I tell you, we are here on Earth to fart around, and don’t let anybody tell you different.

Just as courage imperils life, fear protects it.

To the well-organized mind, death is but the next great adventure.

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

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.

There will always be something to ruin our lives, it all depends on what or which finds us first. We are always ripe and ready to be taken.