The only length of life that seems to satisfy the longings of the human heart is life everlasting.

Water is life, and clean water means health.

You are going to let the fear of poverty govern you life and your reward will be that you will eat, but you will not live.

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.

A worthy woman personifies the truly noble and worthwhile attributes of life.

Love, we say, is life; but love without hope and faith is agonizing death.

Human life is everywhere a state in which much is to be endured, and little to be enjoyed.

As we advance in life it becomes more and more difficult, but in fighting the difficulties the inmost strength of the heart is developed.

‚I wish life was not so short,‘ he thought. ‚Languages take such a time, and so do all the things one wants to know about.‘

Real life? Well, I just hope mine isn’t investigated. They might find that I don’t really exist – that I’m just a hologram.

I love sleep. My life has the tendency to fall apart when I’m awake, you know?

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.

The truth is you don’t know what is going to happen tomorrow. Life is a crazy ride, and nothing is guaranteed.

I think the foundation of everything in my life is wonder.

Every secret of a writer’s soul, every experience of his life, every quality of his mind is written large in his works.

Nothing in life is so exhilarating as to be shot at without result.

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.

Had I pursued my education long enough to learn all the conventional dos and don’ts of starting a business, I often wonder how different my life and career might have been.

In all our contacts it is probably the sense of being really needed and wanted which gives us the greatest satisfaction and creates the most lasting bond.

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.

Most people get a fair amount of fun out of their lives, but on balance life is suffering, and only the very young or the very foolish imagine otherwise.

To live outside the law, you must be honest.

Life is just one damned thing after another.

A man is in general better pleased when he has a good dinner upon his table, than when his wife talks Greek.

My work is about my life, and what I want to do with it.

My only fear is that I may live too long. This would be a subject of dread to me.

Almost everybody is born a genius and buried an idiot.

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.

Everybody’s youth is a dream, a form of chemical madness.

Disease generally begins that equality which death completes.

What I cry out for, like every being, with my whole life and all my earthly passion, is something very different from an equal to cherish: it is a God to adore.

To not to have entirely wasted one’s life seems to be a worthy accomplishment, if only for myself.

In a magazine, one can get – from cover to cover – 15 to 20 different ideas about life and how to live it.

To be idle is a short road to death and to be diligent is a way of life; foolish people are idle, wise people are diligent.

Things in themselves have no life in them. A car can’t comfort or encourage you. A house means nothing if there’s no life and love inside.

All life is an experiment. The more experiments you make the better.

You can never get enough of what you don’t want.

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.

Worshipping is stripping ourselves of our idols, even the most hidden ones, and choosing the Lord as the centre, as the highway of our lives.

The good parts of a book may be only something a writer is lucky enough to overhear or it may be the wreck of his whole damn life and one is as good as the other.

Do you know the only value life has is what life puts on itself?

Let man live at a distance from God, and the universe remains neutral or hostile to him. But let man believe in God, and immediately all around him the elements, even the irksome, of the inevitable organize themselves into a friendly whole, ordered to the ultimate success of life.

You must understand the whole of life, not just one little part of it. That is why you must read, that is why you must look at the skies, that is why you must sing and dance, and write poems and suffer and understand, for all that is life.

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.

Life is grim, and we don’t have to be grim all the time.

There is an ecstasy that marks the summit of life, and beyond which life cannot rise. And such is the paradox of living, this ecstasy comes when one is most alive, and it comes as a complete forgetfulness that one is alive.

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

Hope travels through, nor quits us when we die.

I think Bible principles are principles for life.

The bird is powered by its own life and by its motivation.

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

I write in order to attain that feeling of tension relieved and function achieved which a cow enjoys on giving milk.

Three grand essentials to happiness in this life are something to do, something to love, and something to hope for.

Where there is love there is life.

Religion is not a department of life; it is something that enters into the whole of it.

For life and death are one, even as the river and the sea are one.

My focus is to forget the pain of life. Forget the pain, mock the pain, reduce it. And laugh.

Death is not the worst that can happen to men.

If you lose a big fight, it will worry you all of your life. It will plague you – until you get your revenge.

Today, more than ever before, life must be characterized by a sense of Universal responsibility, not only nation to nation and human to human, but also human to other forms of life.

Chaos often breeds life, when order breeds habit.