Which death is preferably to every other? ‚The unexpected‘.

I did used to have nightmares about the idea that when I die, there is a spark of consciousness which basically creates the world. ‚Is the world going to disappear if this spark of consciousness disappears? And how do I know it won’t? How do I know there’s anything there except what I’m conscious of?‘

If a man had more than one life, I think a little hanging would not hurt this one; but after he is once dead, we cannot bring him back, no matter how sorry we may be; so the boy shall be pardoned.

My life has been one great big joke, a dance that’s walked a song that’s spoke, I laugh so hard I almost choke when I think about myself.

I have such incredible experiences in my life.

God is cruel. Sometimes he makes you live.

Somewhere, everywhere, now hidden, now apparent in what ever is written down, is the form of a human being. If we seek to know him, are we idly occupied?

Nothing can cure the soul but the senses, just as nothing can cure the senses but the soul.

It is vain for the coward to flee; death follows close behind; it is only by defying it that the brave escape.

Life is too short not to celebrate nice moments!

Step with care and great tact, and remember that Life’s a Great Balancing Act.

Don’t part with your illusions. When they are gone, you may still exist, but you have ceased to live.

To act is to be committed, and to be committed is to be in danger.

I’ve been fortunate to have had the life I had prior to Hollywood. I wasn’t starving; I was going to eat the next day.

I intend, before the endgame looms, to die sitting in a chair in my own garden with a glass of brandy in my hand and Thomas Tallis on the iPod. Oh, and since this is England, I had better add, ‚If wet, in the library.‘ Who could say that this is bad?

Nothing fortifies scepticism more than the fact that there are some who are not sceptics; if all were so, they would be wrong.

Just as the wave cannot exist for itself, but is ever a part of the heaving surface of the ocean, so must I never live my life for itself, but always in the experience which is going on around me.

Whoever undertakes to set himself up as a judge of Truth and Knowledge is shipwrecked by the laughter of the gods.

We have lost contact with reality, the simplicity of life.

If a man or woman is born ten years sooner or later, their whole aspect and performance shall be different.

If you love life, don’t waste time, for time is what life is made up of.

Life would pall if it were all sugar; salt is bitter if taken by itself; but when tasted as part of the dish, it savours the meat. Difficulties are the salt of life.

What is earnest is not always true; on the contrary, error is often more earnest than truth.

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.

It may be, it just may be, that life as we know it with its humanity is more unique than many have thought.

Everybody believes in something and everybody, by virtue of the fact that they believe in something, uses that something to support their own existence.

Hell is other people.

Everything in excess is opposed to nature.

If my life was a movie, no one would believe it.

Music is either sacred or secular. The sacred agrees with its dignity, and here has its greatest effect on life, an effect that remains the same through all ages and epochs. Secular music should be cheerful throughout.

I was inspired to spend an entire year – my 65th year – reading, researching, and meditating on Lao-tzu’s messages, practicing them and ultimately writing down these insights as I felt Lao-tzu wanted us to know them.

You get one life. I’m going to embrace mine.

Life is a lively process of becoming.

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.

Every person takes the limits of their own field of vision for the limits of the world.

Life is better when people are working, happy, and spending money.

It is as natural to die as to be born; and to a little infant, perhaps, the one is as painful as the other.

But if nothing but soul, or in soul mind, is qualified to count, it is impossible for there to be time unless there is soul, but only that of which time is an attribute, i.e. if change can exist without soul.

All generalizations are false, including this one.

Life is an unfoldment, and the further we travel the more truth we can comprehend. To understand the things that are at our door is the best preparation for understanding those that lie beyond.

From the dust of the earth, from the common elementary fund, the Creator has made Homo sapiens. From the same material he has made every other creature, however noxious and insignificant to us. They are earth-born companions and our fellow mortals.

The heart has its reasons of which reason knows nothing.

Science is what you know, philosophy is what you don’t know.

All that we see or seem is but a dream within a dream.

The worst form of inequality is to try to make unequal things equal.

Man is not the sum of what he has already, but rather the sum of what he does not yet have, of what he could have.

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

You just have to have a simple faith.

Beauty is a short-lived tyranny.

The Christian ideal has not been tried and found wanting; it has been found difficult and left untried.

Time is an illusion. Lunchtime doubly so.

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

Life is just one damned thing after another.

I just have an enthusiasm for life.

Life is not a spectator sport. If you’re going to spend your whole life in the grandstand just watching what goes on, in my opinion you’re wasting your life.

The way is long if one follows precepts, but short… if one follows patterns.

The distinction between the past, present and future is only a stubbornly persistent illusion.

It is always better to have no ideas than false ones; to believe nothing, than to believe what is wrong.

He who looks the higher is the more highly distinguished, and turning over the great book of nature (which is the proper object of philosophy) is the way to elevate one’s gaze.

Where there is love there is life.

The pendulum of the mind alternates between sense and nonsense, not between right and wrong.