Everything tends to make us believe that there exists a certain point of the mind at which life and death, the real and the imagined, past and future, the communicable and the incommunicable, high and low, cease to be perceived as contradictions.
Suffering! We owe to it all that is good in us, all that gives value to life we owe to it pity, we owe to it courage, we owe to it all the virtues.
I am always astonishing myself. It is the only thing that makes life worth living.
One cannot judge a life by any less true measure than death.
Education is not confined to childhood and adolescence. Learning is not limited to the schools. Throughout life, our milieu is our teacher, at once stern and dangerous.
Let us consider the way in which we spend our lives.
Life is more beautiful than caution.
A broad margin of leisure is as beautiful in a man's life as in a book. Haste makes waste, no less in life than in housekeeping. Keep the time, observe the hours of the universe, not of the cars.
Our truest life is when we are in dreams awake.
I think that there is nothing, not even crime, more opposed to poetry, to philosophy, ay, to life itself than this incessant business.
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.
I wish that every human life might be pure transparent freedom.
We make a living by what we get, but we make a life by what we give.
There is no value in life except what you choose to place upon it and no happiness in any place except what you bring to it yourself.
This soul, or life within us, by no means agrees with the life outside us. If one has the courage to ask her what she thinks, she is always saying the very opposite to what other people say.
Life has a certain flavor for those who have fought and risked all that the sheltered and protected can never experience.
What is called genius is the abundance of life and health.
There is no such thing as perpetual tranquillity of mind while we live here because life itself is but motion, and can never be without desire, nor without fear, no more than without sense.
Wealth is the ability to fully experience life.
Every secret of a writer's soul, every experience of his life, every quality of his mind is written large in his works.
A happy life must be to a great extent a quiet life, for it is only in an atmosphere of quiet that true joy dare live.
I know of no more encouraging fact than the unquestionable ability of man to elevate his life by conscious endeavor.
Every creature is better alive than dead, men and moose and pine trees, and he who understands it aright will rather preserve its life than destroy it.
His whole life's bright career was love.
Alcohol is the anesthesia by which we endure the operation of life.
They tell us that suicide is the greatest piece of cowardice... that suicide is wrong when it is quite obvious that there is nothing in the world to which every man has a more unassailable title than to his own life and person.
Friendship is the shadow of the evening, which increases with the setting sun of life.
Without deep reflection one knows from daily life that one exists for other people.
If we don't know life, how can we know death?
Dost thou love life? Then do not squander time, for that is the stuff life is made of.
