Life

I will offer here, as a sound maxim, this: That we can’t reach old age by another man’s road.

Life levels all men: death reveals the eminent.

Except during the nine months before he draws his first breath, no man manages his affairs as well as a tree does.

Do not read, as children do, to amuse yourself, or like the ambitious, for the purpose of instruction. No, read in order to live.

ONE CANNOT THINK WELL, LOVE WELL, SLEEP WELL, IF ONE HAS NOT DINED WELL.

What holds the world together, as I have learned from bitter experience, is sexual intercourse.

It’s not the tragedies that kill us, it’s the messes.

If you live long enough, you’ll see that every victory turns into a defeat.

Be on the alert to recognise your prime at whatever time of your life it may occur.

Unbeing dead isn’t being alive.

ALL ART IS QUITE USELESS.

IF I CAN STOP ONE HEART FROM BREAKING, I SHALL NOT LIVE IN VAIN.

LIFE’S A BITCH. YOU’VE GOT TO GO OUT AND KICK ASS.

May you live all the days of your life.

I LOVE SHERLOCK HOLMES. MY LIFE IS SO UNTIDY AND HE’S SO NEAT.

I want to live and feel all the shades, tones and variations of mental and physical experience possible.

THOUGH A GOOD DEAL IS TOO STRANGE TO BE BELIEVED, NOTHING IS TOO STRANGE TO HAVE HAPPENED.

You fall out of your mother’s womb, you crawl across open country under fire, and drop into your grave.

Life is one long process of getting tired.

YOU ASK ME WHAT LIFE IS. THAT’S LIKE ASKING WHAT A CARROT IS. A CARROT IS A CARROT, AND THERE’S NOTHING MORE TO KNOW.

Men must live and create. Live to the point of tears.

How vain it is to sit down to write when you have not stood up to live!

We write to taste life twice, in the moment and in retrospect.

Do not take life too seriously. You'll never get out of it alive.