Life

Life seems to me like a Japanese picture which our imagination does not allow to end with the margin. We aim at the infinite and when our arrow falls to earth it is in flames.

 

If your life at night is good, you think you have / Everything; but, if in that quarter things go wrong, / You will consider your best and truest interests /

Men, like peaches and pears, grow sweet a little while before they begin to decay.

When I can look Life in the eyes, / Grown calm and very coldly wise, / Life will have given me the Truth, / And taken in exchange—my youth.

Our final experience, like our first, is conjectural. We move between two darknesses.

Now at last I have come to see what life is, / Nothing is ever ended, everything only begun, / And the brave victories that seem so splendid / Are never really won.

Life is a frail moth flying / Caught in the web of the years that pass.

Life is an end in itself, and the only question as to whether it is worth living is whether you have enough of it.

To learn new habits is everything, for it is to reach the substance of life. Life is but a tissue of habits.

The people I respect most behave as if they were immortal and as if society was eternal.

We pay for security with boredom, for adventure with bother.

We are all sentenced to capital punishment for the crime of living, and though the condemned cell of our earthly existence is but a narrow and bare dwelling-place, we have adjusted ourselves to it, and made it tolerably comfortable for the little while we are to be confined in it.

Art is the flower of life and, as seed, it gives back life.

In this life there’s nothing new in dying,

 

If thou should never see my face again, Pray for my soul. More things are wrought by prayer Than this world dreams of.

'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.' J. R. R.

Life is short and we have never too much time for gladdening the hearts of those who are traveling the dark journey with us.

The Future is something which everyone reaches at the rate of sixty minutes an hour, whatever he does, whoever he is.

A moment's insight is sometimes worth a life's experience.

The advice of their elders to young men is very apt to be as unreal as a list of the hundred best books.

Each life makes its own imitation of immortality.

There's a very fine line between a groove and a rut a fine line between eccentrics and people who are just plain nuts.

Unable are the Loved to die For Love is Immortality.

The secret of man's being is not only to live but to have something to live for.