Quotes on Life

In my plays I want to look at life at the commonplace of existence as if we had just turned a corner and run into it for the first time.

I had a dream my life would be different from this hell I am living, so different from what it seemed. Now life has killed the dream I dreamed.

A life all turbulence and noise may seem To him that leads it wise and to be praised, But wisdom is a pearl with most success Sought in still waters.

The fact that this chain of life existed [at volcanic vents on the seafloor] in the black cold of the deep sea and was utterly independent of sunlight - previously thought to be the font of all Earth's life - has startling ramifications. If life could flourish there, nurtured by a complex chemical process based on geothermal heat, then life could exist under similar conditions on planets far removed from the nurturing light of our parent star, the Sun.

If you can tell me who your heroes are, I can tell you how you're going to turn out in life.

The point is, not how long you live, but how nobly you live.

When I mount the scaffold at last these will be my farewell words to the sheriff: Say what you will against me when I am gone, but don't forget to add, in common justice, that I was never converted to anything.

I do not believe that the Good Lord plays dice.

Perhaps love makes us grow old before our time and makes us young again when youth has passed.

To say that I am made in the image of God is to say that love is the reason for my existence, for God is love.

Poverty ... It is life near the bone, where it is sweetest.

When our hatred is violent, it sinks us even beneath those we hate.

When the days are too short, chances are you are living at your best.

There are occasions and causes, why and wherefore in all things.

Your biggest opportunity probably lies under your own feet, in your current job, industry, education, experience or interests.

The men whom I have seen succeed best in life always have been cheerful and hopeful men; who went about their business with a smile on their faces; and took the changes and chances of this mortal life like men; facing rough and smooth alike as it came.

Those who hope for no other life are dead even for this.

An intimate friend and a hated enemy have always been indispensable requirements for my emotional life; I have always been able to create them anew, and not infrequently my childish ideal has been so closely approached that friend and enemy coincided in the same person.

If you help others, you will be helped, perhaps tomorrow, perhaps in one hundred years, but you will be helped. Nature must pay off the debt. It is a mathematical law and all life is mathematics.

There is a fountain of youth: it is your mind, your talents, the creativity you bring to your life and the lives of the people you love. When you learn to tap this source, you will truly have defeated age.

Like a French poem is life; being only perfect in structure when with the masculine rhymes mingled the feminine are.