For he lives twice who can at once employ, The present well, and e’en the past enjoy.

Life is but a day: A fragile dewdrop on its perilious way From a tree's summit

I wish to believe in immortality-I wish to live with you forever.

O for a life of Sensations rather than of Thoughts!

Nothing ever becomes real till experienced – even a proverb is no proverb until your life has illustrated it

I have a habitual feeling of my real life having past, and that I am now leading a posthumous existence.

Can death be sleep, when life is but a dream, And scenes of bliss pass as a phantom by? ---"On death

Life is divine Chaos. It's messy, and it's supposed to be that way.

So long as you don't feel life's paltry and a miserable business, the rest doesn't matter, happiness or unhappiness.

One can no longer live with people: it is too hideous and nauseating. Owners and owned, they are like the two sides of a ghastly disease.

I believe that a man is converted when first he hears the low, vast murmur of life, of human life, troubling his hitherto unconscious self.

Life is ours to be spent, not to be saved.

It is a fine thing to establish one's own religion in one's heart, not to be dependent on tradition and second-hand ideals. Life will seem to you, later, not a lesser, but a greater thing.

Love is the flower of life, and blossoms unexpectedly and without law, and must be plucked where it is found, and enjoyed for the brief hour of its duration.

Life is a travelling to the edge of knowledge, then a leap taken.

There is only one thing that a man really wants to do, all his life; and that is, to find his way to his God, his Morning Star, salute his fellow man, and enjoy the woman who has come the long way with him.

I want to live my life so that my nights are not full of regrets.

In every living thing there is the desire for love.

But better die than live mechanically a life that is a repetition of repetitions.

Towns oftener swamp one than carry one out onto the big ocean of life.

The American grips himself, at the very sources of his consciousness, in a grip of care: and then, to so much of the rest of life, is indifferent. Whereas, the European hasn't got so much care in him, so he cares much more for life and living.

I am in love - and, my God, it is the greatest thing that can happen to a man. I tell you, find a woman you can fall in love with. Do it. Let yourself fall in love. If you have not done so already, you are wasting your life.

“Having now finished the work assigned me, I retire from the great theatre of Action; and bidding an Affectionate farewell to this August body under whose orders I have so long acted, I here offer my commission, and take my leave of all the employments of public life.”

“My observation is that whenever one person is found adequate to the discharge of a duty… it is worse executed by two persons, and scarcely done at all if three or more are employed therein.”