Life’s short. Anything could happen, and it usually does, so there is no point in sitting around thinking about all the ifs, ands and buts.

It is not like I have gone crazy, I just don’t want to take any chances. You never know what could happen.

Modern science says: ‚The sun is the past, the earth is the present, the moon is the future.‘ From an incandescent mass we have originated, and into a frozen mass we shall turn. Merciless is the law of nature, and rapidly and irresistibly we are drawn to our doom.

Plunge boldly into the thick of life, and seize it where you will, it is always interesting.

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

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

I suppose that’s one of the ironies of life doing the wrong thing at the right moment.

One life is all we have and we live it as we believe in living it. But to sacrifice what you are and to live without belief, that is a fate more terrible than dying.

My life is real.

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

Let us beware of saying that death is the opposite of life. The living being is only a species of the dead, and a very rare species.

The probability of apocalypse soon cannot be realistically estimated, but it is surely too high for any sane person to contemplate with equanimity.

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.

There is, indeed, nothing that so much seduces reason from vigilance, as the thought of passing life with an amiable woman.

My life is my argument.

We were born to die and we die to live. As seedlings of God, we barely blossom on earth; we fully flower in heaven.

This is not a bad life.

Sooner or later, I hate to break it to you, you’re gonna die, so how do you fill in the space between here and there? It’s yours. Seize your space.

Life becomes harder for us when we live for others, but it also becomes richer and happier.

In war as in life, it is often necessary when some cherished scheme has failed, to take up the best alternative open, and if so, it is folly not to work for it with all your might.

If you were to destroy the belief in immortality in mankind, not only love but every living force on which the continuation of all life in the world depended, would dry up at once.

If you can look into the seeds of time, and say which grain will grow and which will not, speak then unto me.

You are 27 or 28 right? It is very tough to live at that age. When nothing is sure. I have sympathy with you.

Enlightenment is always there. Small enlightenment will bring great enlightenment. If you breathe in and are aware that you are alive – that you can touch the miracle of being alive – then that is a kind of enlightenment.

For victory in life, we’ve got to keep focused on the goal, and the goal is Heaven.

Death is no more than passing from one room into another. But there’s a difference for me, you know. Because in that other room I shall be able to see.

It’s not morbid to talk about death. Most people don’t worry about death, they worry about a bad death.

I don’t think you ever really know what all you’re doing, so you have to act on faith.

And thou wilt give thyself relief, if thou doest every act of thy life as if it were the last.

The measure of a life, after all, is not its duration, but its donation.

One secret of success in life is for a man to be ready for his opportunity when it comes.

America is not nearly done. We’re only in the beginning. Who knows who we will be? Who knows… what color we will be? It is all something that, maybe, our descendants – if they survive that long – will see.

Life consists in what a man is thinking of all day.

I have not worked out my poems with a careful will, falling rather on haphazard and blind formulation of wordage, a more flowing concept, in a hope for a more new and lively path. I do personalize at times, but this only for the grace and elan of the dance.

We live in a bewildering world.

I can think of nothing less pleasurable than a life devoted to pleasure.

We love life, not because we are used to living but because we are used to loving.

Superstition is the poetry of life.

One always dies too soon or too late. And yet, life is there, finished: the line is drawn, and it must all be added up. You are nothing other than your life.

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.

There are many things that I don’t understand.

My dear brothers and sisters, the joy we feel has little to do with the circumstances of our lives and everything to do with the focus of our lives.

Death, like birth, is a secret of Nature.

If there’s one thing that’s certain in business, it’s uncertainty.

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.

Only a life lived for others is a life worthwhile.

The saddest aspect of life right now is that science gathers knowledge faster than society gathers wisdom.

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.

Keep love in your heart. A life without it is like a sunless garden when the flowers are dead.

I do think there must be some kind of interaction between your living life and the life that goes on from here.

But what is happiness except the simple harmony between a man and the life he leads?

Our truest life is when we are in dreams awake.

If you like it you should enjoy it! Moderation in everything. If there’s things you really love, you should enjoy. You get one life, so you should enjoy it.

Each life makes its own immitation of immortality.

Life began with waking up and loving my mother’s face.

My life has been very full.

One of the most tragic things I know about human nature is that all of us tend to put off living. We are all dreaming of some magical rose garden over the horizon instead of enjoying the roses that are blooming outside our windows today.

Though men determine, the gods doo dispose: and oft times many things fall out betweene the cup and the lip.

In everyone’s life, at some time, our inner fire goes out. It is then burst into flame by an encounter with another human being. We should all be thankful for those people who rekindle the inner spirit.

There is only one failure in life possible, and that is not to be true to the best one knows.

Stuff your eyes with wonder, live as if you’d drop dead in ten seconds. See the world. It’s more fantastic than any dream made or paid for in factories.