We are doomed to cling to a life even while we find it unendurable.

Every man’s life ends the same way. It is only the details of how he lived and how he died that distinguish one man from another.

The art is long, life is short.

The function of wisdom is to discriminate between good and evil.

If there is a transmigration of souls then I am not yet on the bottom rung. My life is a hesitation before birth.

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

Some people focus more on sonics. Some people focus more on story. I focus on both sonics and story, but music sometimes, just music itself, can turn into more of a maths problem. I guess everything in life is a math problem, but it can be more about an empirical route to getting the symmetry that you want, and this vibe, sonically.

Life is what happens while you are busy making other plans.

Man approaches the unattainable truth through a succession of errors.

For time is the longest distance between two places.

Blessed is the man who expects nothing, for he shall never be disappointed was the ninth beatitude.

There is something terribly morbid in the modern sympathy with pain. One should sympathise with the colour, the beauty, the joy of life. The less said about life’s sores the better.

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

The light which puts out our eyes is darkness to us. Only that day dawns to which we are awake. There is more day to dawn. The sun is but a morning star.

The ‚I think‘ which Kant said must be able to accompany all my objects, is the ‚I breathe‘ which actually does accompany them.

Experience without theory is blind, but theory without experience is mere intellectual play.

I do not know whether there are gods, but there ought to be.

There is nothing good or evil save in the will.

Youth is to all the glad season of life; but often only by what it hopes, not by what it attains, or what it escapes.

Glance into the world just as though time were gone: and everything crooked will become straight to you.

Keep me away from the wisdom which does not cry, the philosophy which does not laugh and the greatness which does not bow before children.

Fate pulls you in different directions.

The proper study of Mankind is Man.

First and last, what is demanded of genius is love of truth.

In all chaos there is a cosmos, in all disorder a secret order.

If patience is worth anything, it must endure to the end of time. And a living faith will last in the midst of the blackest storm.

Water is life, and clean water means health.

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.

What can everyone do? Praise and blame. This is human virtue, this is human madness.

Buddhism has in it no idea of there being a moral law laid down by somekind of cosmic lawgiver.

All human evil comes from a single cause, man’s inability to sit still in a room.

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

There are no moral phenomena at all, but only a moral interpretation of phenomena.

If the people are happy, united, wealthy, and powerful, we presume the rest. We conclude that to be good from whence good is derived.

Life, if well lived, is long enough.

The first step, my son, which one makes in the world, is the one on which depends the rest of our days.

How could man rejoice in victory and delight in the slaughter of men?

This life is worth living, we can say, since it is what we make it.

The infliction of cruelty with a good conscience is a delight to moralists. That is why they invented Hell.

Doubt is not a pleasant condition, but certainty is absurd.

Without work, all life goes rotten. But when work is soulless, life stifles and dies.

My philosophy is, it’s always very rewarding when you can make an audience laugh. I don’t mind making fun of myself. I like self-deprecating comedy. But I’d like you to laugh with me occasionally, too.

There is a fundamental question we all have to face. How are we to live our lives; by what principles and moral values will we be guided and inspired?

Faith must trample under foot all reason, sense, and understanding.

The brain is wider than the sky.

The way to know life is to love many things.

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

We are more often frightened than hurt; and we suffer more from imagination than from reality.

As far as I’m concerned, I’m a writer who’s writing books, and therefore, I don’t want to die. You’d miss the end of the book wouldn’t you? You can’t die with an unfinished book.

We all die, we all get sick, we all feel hunger and lust and pain, and therefore human life is consistent from one generation to the other. We all – most of us, anyway – want connections with other people and spend our lives looking for them.

In golf, the player, coach and official are rolled into one, and they overlap completely. Golf really is the best microcosm of life – or at least the way life should be.

Satisfaction consists in freedom from pain, which is the positive element of life.

A cat is only itself, representative of the strong forces of life that won’t let go.

The heart has its reasons of which reason knows nothing.

Each life is made up of mistakes and learning, waiting and growing, practicing patience and being persistent.

If pleasure was not followed by pain, who would forbear it?

All intelligent thoughts have already been thought; what is necessary is only to try to think them again.

Death is a fearful thing.

No man can reveal to you nothing but that which already lies half-asleep in the dawning of your knowledge.

The loss of life will be irreplaceable.

Obedience to God is the pathway to the life you really want to live.