The first forty years of life give us the text; the next thirty supply the commentary on it.
To live is the rarest thing in the world. Most people exist, that is all.
We write to taste life twice, in the moment and in retrospect.
Live to the point of tears.
Life is full of misery, loneliness, and suffering - and it's all over much too soon.
The gentleman understands rightousness, the petty man understands interest.
Life is like playing a violin solo in public and learning the instrument as one goes on.
Life is either a daring adventure or nothing. Security is mostly a superstition. It does not exist in nature.
Work harder on yourself than you do on your job.
If you break your neck, if you have nothing to eat, if your house is on fire, then you got a problem. Everything else is inconvenience.
No passion in the world is equal to the passion to alter someone else's draft.
Time is the best killer.
Your purpose in life is to find your purpose and give your whole heart and soul to it.
No snowflake in an avalanche ever feels responsible.
What would life be if we had no courage to attempt anything?
And the day came when the risk to remain tight in a bud was more painful than the risk it took to blossom.
Speed and efficiency do not always increase the quality of life.
One of the saddest things in life, is the things one remembers.
I would rather live in a world where my life is surrounded by mystery than live in a world so small that my mind could comprehend it.
Everyone seems to have a clear idea of how other people should lead their lives, but none about his or her own.
This terrifying world is not devoid of charms, of the mornings that make waking up worthwhile.