life quotes

Had I pursued my education long enough to learn all the conventional dos and don’ts of starting a business, I often wonder how different my life and career might have been.

The Congo was the most difficult shoot of my life but was also maybe the greatest adventure of my life.

There comes a time when people get tired of being pushed out of the glittering sunlight of life’s July and left standing amid the piercing chill of an alpine November.

Life is a journey. When we stop, things don’t go right.

Old age is like everything else. To make a success of it, you’ve got to start young.

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.

Except during the nine months before he draws his first breath, no man manages his affairs as well as a tree does.

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

No one can pass through life, any more than he can pass through a bit of country, without leaving tracks behind, and those tracks may often be helpful to those coming after him in finding their way.

Today, more than ever before, life must be characterized by a sense of Universal responsibility, not only nation to nation and human to human, but also human to other forms of life.

Chance is an element of life. What I try to do is study what I call the mechanics of reality as carefully as I can.

One who does not know when to die, does not know how to live.

When we are born we cry that we are come to this great stage of fools.

Many that live deserve death. And some that die deserve life. Can you give it to them? Then do not be too eager to deal out death in judgement. For even the very wise cannot see all ends.

Happiness is a ball after which we run wherever it rolls, and we push it with our feet when it stops.

All the time, I’ve felt that life is a wager and that I probably was getting more out of leading a bohemian existence as a writer than I would have if I didn’t.

The man who has no problems is out of the game.

It is possible to provide security against other ills, but as far as death is concerned, we men live in a city without walls.

The golden moments in the stream of life rush past us, and we see nothing but sand; the angels come to visit us, and we only know them when they are gone.

It’s in responsibility that most people find the meaning that sustains them through life. It’s not in happiness. It’s not in impulsive pleasure.

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?

The secret of life is honesty and fair dealing. If you can fake that, you’ve got it made.

Accept the terrible responsibility of life with eyes wide open.

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

Life is too short to be little. Man is never so manly as when he feels deeply, acts boldly, and expresses himself with frankness and with fervor.

For me life is continuously being hungry. The meaning of life is not simply to exist, to survive, but to move ahead, to go up, to achieve, to conquer.

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

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

I make preparations both to live and to die every day, but with the emphasis on not dying, and on acting as if I was going to carry on living.

The greatest mistake you can make in life is continually fearing that you’ll make one.

There is no more fatal blunderer than he who consumes the greater part of his life getting his living.

Life is nothing but a competition to be the criminal rather than the victim.

My philosophy in life is, Decide what you want to do. You have to have something to hope for.

I want you to feel happy and enjoy the theatre of my life the way that I do. No matter what happens with my music and wherever I go – that heart of that glamorous girl in New York will never be gone.

Never throughout history has a man who lived a life of ease left a name worth remembering.

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

Life and death are one thread, the same line viewed from different sides.

We all get weary sometimes, and we tend to think that life is what makes us weary.

The true object of all human life is play. Earth is a task garden; heaven is a playground.

If life is a checker game, someone else is moving the pieces. It isn’t us. Don’t be surprised by amazing coincidences. There are no accidents. Consider, as I learned to do, the incredible interconnectedness of all of life.

Everything passes. Nobody gets anything for keeps. And that’s how we’ve got to live.

You can’t imagine parlor ballads drifting out of high-rise multi-towered buildings. That kind of music existed in a more timeless state of life.

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

Do not take life too seriously. You will never get out of it alive.

Singleness of purpose is one of the chief essentials for success in life, no matter what may be one’s aim.

Neil Young is my hero, and such a great example. You know what that guy has been doing for the past 40 years? Making music. That’s what that guy does. Sometimes you pay attention, sometimes you don’t. Sometimes he hands it to you, sometimes he keeps it to himself. He’s a good man with a beautiful family and wonderful life.

My whole life is a theater piece.

Life is very difficult. One of the most ancient of religious ideas that emerges everywhere, I would say, is that life is essentially suffering.

My only fear is that I may live too long. This would be a subject of dread to me.

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

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

By the time you’ve reached your sixties, you do know that one day you will die, and knowing that is at least the beginning of wisdom.

Life is tragic. You are tiny and flawed and ignorant and weak, and everything else is huge, complex, and overwhelming.

This has always been my life and no one else’s, and that’s how it’s always been since the day I came in it.

Whether for life or death, do your own work well.

When we talk about mortality, we are talking about our children.

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

The art of living well and the art of dying well are one.

Life is too short not to celebrate nice moments!

An unused life is an early death.