Life is a dead-end street.

The spiritual is the parent of the practical.

As we must account for every idle word, so must we account for every idle silence.

There was never yet fair woman but she made mouths in a glass.

I don’t dislike any of my exes. If I took time to form a relationship, it’s gonna hurt when we move on, but are you puttin‘ White-Out over all that beautiful time together? That was real time in your life. It’s connected to where you are today.

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

Now I realize that from ’72 through to about ’76, I was the ultimate rock star. I couldn’t have been more rock star.

Art is the proper task of life.

Life is hard. After all, it kills you.

Life is a progress from want to want, not from enjoyment to enjoyment.

For every moment of triumph, for every instance of beauty, many souls must be trampled.

One is still what one is going to cease to be and already what one is going to become. One lives one’s death, one dies one’s life.

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

Yet it is in our idleness, in our dreams, that the submerged truth sometimes comes to the top.

I always say this about my music, and music in general: Music is like a time capsule. Each album reflects what I’m going through or what’s going on in my life at that moment.

Next to knowing when to seize an opportunity, the most important thing in life is to know when to forego an advantage.

The philosophical question before us is, when we make an observation of our track in the past, does the result of our observation become real in the same sense that the final state would be defined if an outside observer were to make the observation?

To the dumb question, ‚Why me?‘ the cosmos barely bothers to return the reply, ‚Why not?‘

Life’s like a play: it’s not the length, but the excellence of the acting that matters.

The slave is doomed to worship time and fate and death, because they are greater than anything he finds in himself, and because all his thoughts are of things which they devour.

When you are sorrowful look again in your heart, and you shall see that in truth you are weeping for that which has been your delight.

I always like to look on the optimistic side of life, but I am realistic enough to know that life is a complex matter.

I left the woods for as good a reason as I went there. Perhaps it seemed to me that I had several more lives to live and could not spare any more time for that one.

Where there is love there is life.

One may have a blazing hearth in one’s soul and yet no one ever came to sit by it. Passers-by see only a wisp of smoke from the chimney and continue on their way.

All you need in this life is ignorance and confidence, and then success is sure.

When I look back on what I did for the Left, I’m in a small way quite proud of some of it – I only wish I’d done more.

I do not like the man who squanders life for fame; give me the man who living makes a name.

Man is but a reed, the most feeble thing in nature, but he is a thinking reed.

Our scientific power has outrun our spiritual power. We have guided missiles and misguided men.

Life would be tragic if it weren’t funny.

Obviously I faced the possibility of not returning when first I considered going. Once faced and settled there really wasn’t any good reason to refer to it.

To walk through the ruined cities of Germany is to feel an actual doubt about the continuity of civilization.

Work is the meat of life, pleasure the dessert.

There is always inequality in life. Some men are killed in a war and some men are wounded and some men never leave the country. Life is unfair.

My one big regret is that I didn’t play on for ten more years.

I don’t pretend we have all the answers. But the questions are certainly worth thinking about.

An unused life is an early death.

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.

Most of our lives aren’t that exciting, but the drama is still going on in the small details.

I vividly remember a conversation I had many years ago in 1974, which marked a turning point in my leadership journey. I was sitting at a Holiday Inn with my friend, Kurt Campmeyer, when he asked me if I had a personal growth plan. I didn’t. In fact, I didn’t even know you were supposed to have one.

Life without liberty is like a body without spirit.

I have learned to know God. I have recast my social belief… All my admirers are married; most of my friends are dead; and I stand with all the world before me, where to choose a path to make in it.

Death is one moment, and life is so many of them.

And this, our life, exempt from public haunt, finds tongues in trees, books in the running brooks, sermons in stones, and good in everything.

I am rather inclined to silence.

The astronomer will believe that the most erratic comet will yet accomplish its journey and revisit our sphere; but we give up those for lost who have not wandered one-half the distance from the centre of light and life.

Philosophy is the highest music.

The God who gave us life, gave us liberty at the same time.

My career as Nipsey Hussle is based on my life as Ermias Asghedom.

We conceal it from ourselves in vain – we must always love something. In those matters seemingly removed from love, the feeling is secretly to be found, and man cannot possibly live for a moment without it.

I put all my genius into my life; I put only my talent into my works.

Ah, mon cher, for anyone who is alone, without God and without a master, the weight of days is dreadful.

Enthusiasm is the most important thing in life.

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

Work gives you meaning and purpose and life is empty without it.

We are all born for love. It is the principle of existence, and its only end.

I pass my life in preventing the storm from blowing down the tent, and I drive in the pegs as fast as they are pulled up.

One day it will be over, and I don’t care.

Far and away the best prize that life has to offer is the chance to work hard at work worth doing.

Life isn’t fair, but God is.