We are such stuff as dreams are made on; and our little life is rounded with a sleep.

My life is real.

I don’t know where I’m going from here, but I promise it won’t be boring.

The choicest pleasures of life lie within the ring of moderation.

Why are our days numbered and not, say, lettered?

The truth is, I had always wanted to be a comedian, but I really didn’t have that kind of personality, and it’s a terrifying thing to say.

Old age is just a record of one’s whole life.

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

Cherish your visions and your dreams as they are the children of your soul, the blueprints of your ultimate achievements.

I always wanted to know, and I always used to daydream, about what it would be like to stand on a really big stage and sing songs for a lot of people, songs that I had written… Daydreaming was kind of my No. 1 thing when I was little, because I didn’t have much of a social life going on.

I’ve got no need to prove to myself that I can do Shakespeare. I’ve done it.

There is only one thing in life worse than being talked about, and that is not being talked about.

God is cruel. Sometimes he makes you live.

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

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.

There are only the pursued, the pursuing, the busy and the tired.

I think any life can be interesting, any surroundings can be interesting. I don’t think I could have been so brave if I had been living in a town, competing with people on what can be called a generally higher cultural level.

Alcohol is the anesthesia by which we endure the operation of life.

We are certainly not to relinquish the evidence of experiments for the sake of dreams and vain fictions of our own devising; nor are we to recede from the analogy of Nature, which is wont to be simple and always consonant to itself.

Why does the eye see a thing more clearly in dreams than the imagination when awake?

A useless life is an early death.

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

Life being very short, and the quiet hours of it few, we ought to waste none of them in reading valueless books.

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

Love looks not with the eyes, but with the mind, And therefore is winged Cupid painted blind.

I’m not trying to follow a set of rules and stuff. I’m just living my life.

Isn’t it funny how babies laugh a lot? I read a toddler, a young child laughs 300 times a day. The average adult laughs, like, four times a day. God put it in them. He put the laugh in us, but I think sometimes we let life get us down, you know, have bad breaks, and we lose our breaks.

Thou know’st the first time that we smell the air we wawl and cry. When we are born we cry, that we are come to this great state of fools.

Life is a difficult game. You can win it only by retaining your birthright to be a person.

Trust in dreams, for in them is hidden the gate to eternity.

If life gives you limes, make margaritas.

And die of nothing but a rage to live.

If we weren’t all crazy, we’d just go insane.

Don’t be a spectator, don’t let life pass you by.

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

I always wished for this, but it’s almost turning into more of a nightmare than a dream.

It is the spectator, and not life, that art really mirrors.

Live your life while you have it. Life is a splendid gift. There is nothing small in it. Far the greatest things grow by God’s law out of the smallest. But to live your life, you must discipline it.

Superstition is the poetry of 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.

Each day is a little life: every waking and rising a little birth, every fresh morning a little youth, every going to rest and sleep a little death.

The only time you really live fully is from thirty to sixty. The young are slaves to dreams; the old servants of regrets. Only the middle-aged have all their five senses in the keeping of their wits.

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.

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?

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.

Ambition has one heel nailed in well, though she stretch her fingers to touch the heavens.

Remember, man does not live on bread alone: sometimes he needs a little buttering up.

I’m not afraid of death, but I’m in no hurry to die. I have so much I want to do first.

Life begins on the other side of despair.

What keeps me up at night? Anxiety. Anxiety, the inability to go to sleep, it’s quite literally that.

Some people see things that are and ask, Why? Some people dream of things that never were and ask, Why not? Some people have to go to work and don’t have time for all that.

If we hope for what we are not likely to possess, we act and think in vain, and make life a greater dream and shadow than it really is.

No excellent soul is exempt from a mixture of madness.

So long as the memory of certain beloved friends lives in my heart, I shall say that life is good.

A well-written life is almost as rare as a well-spent one.

When you cease to make a contribution, you begin to die.

My definition of country music is really pretty simple. It’s when someone sings about their life and what they know, from an authentic place.

The way to know life is to love many things.

When life is too easy for us, we must beware or we may not be ready to meet the blows which sooner or later come to everyone, rich or poor.

Change is the law of life. And those who look only to the past or present are certain to miss the future.

Love is not love that alters when it alteration finds.