Life

[ Socrates speaking :] Life without this sort of examination is not worth living.

Most men die at 27, we just bury them at 72.

I have had to learn the simplest things last. Which made for difficulties.

Don’t tell me that you have exhausted life.

Degenerate sons and daughters, Life is too strong for you— It takes life to love life.

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.

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

Grow old along with me!

The actual tragedies of life bear no relation to one's preconceived ideas. In the event, one is always bewildered by their simplicity, their grandeur of design, and by that element of the bizarre which seems inherent in them.

Poetry is life distilled.

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.

 

[ On being told at a party that people were ducking for apples :] There, but for a typographical error, is the story of my life.

Human beings . . . they go on being born and dying, dying and being born. It’s kind of boring, isn’t it?

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

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 /

anyone lived in a pretty how town (with up so floating many bells down) spring summer autumn winter he sang his didn’t he danced his did.

Life is the funny thing that happens to you on the way to the grave.

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

What are days for?

Where can we live but days?

His life was gentle, and the elements

What will survive of us is love.

Enjoy life. There's plenty of time to be dead.

To die proudly when it is no longer possible to live proudly. Death of one's own free choice, death at the proper time, with a clear head and with joyfulness, consummated in the midst of children and witnesses: so that an actual leave-taking is possible while he who is leaving is still there