He who despairs of the human condition is a coward, but he who has hope for it is a fool.
Basically, I'm interested in friendship, sex and death.
Such as we are made of, such we be.
Measurement of life should be proportioned rather to the intensity of the experience than to its actual length.
Life is seldom as unendurable as, to judge by the facts, it logically ought to be.
Birth, copulation and death. That's all the facts when you come to brass tacks.
Life is an offensive, directed against the repetitious mechanism of the universe.
There is no cure for birth and death, save to enjoy the interval.
The art of living is more like that of wrestling than of dancing. The main thing is to stand firm and be ready for an unforeseen attack.
We never live, but we are always in the expectation of living.
Life, we learn too late, is in the living, in the tissue of every day and hour.
There is time for work. And time for love. That leaves no other time.
It is not the years in your life but the life in your years that counts.
A single event can awaken within us a stranger totally unknown to us. To live is to be slowly born.
One hour of life, crowded to the full with glorious action, and filled with noble risks, is worth whole years of those mean observances of paltry decorum.
The good life, as I conceive it, is a happy life. I do not mean that if you are good you will be happy - I mean that if you are happy you will be good.
One man in his time plays many parts.
He alone deserves liberty and life who daily must win them anew.
One returns to the place one came from.
The true meaning of life is to plant trees, under whose shade you do not expect to sit.
