How easy it is, Doctor, to be a philosopher on paper, and how difficult in real life!

If one wants to lead a good life, A HUMAN LIFE, one must work.

Which executioner is the more humane, he who kills you in a few minutes or he who drags the life out of you in the course of many years

..when one has no real life, one lives by mirages. It's still better than nothing.

Do silly things. Foolishness is a great deal more vital and healthy than our straining and striving after a meaningful life.

And only now, when he was gray-haired, had he fallen in love properly, thoroughly, for the first time in his life.

This life of ours...human life is like a flower gloriously blooming in a meadow: along comes a goat, eats it up---no more flower.

MEDVIEDENKO Why do you always wear mourning? MASHA I dress in black to match my life. I am unhappy.

If my life can ever be of any use to you, come and take it.

Do you see that tree? It is dead but it still sways in the wind with the others. I think it would be like that with me. That if I died I would still be part of life in one way or another.

To fear love is to fear life, and those whose fear life are already three parts dead...

If ever my life can be of any use to you, come and claim it.

When asked, "Why do you always wear black?", he said, "I am mourning for my life.

“Man needs difficulties in life because they are necessary to enjoy the success.”

“LIFE and TIME are the world’s best Teachers. Life teaches us to make good use of TIME and TIME teaches us the value of LIFE.”

“Life is a difficult game. You can win it only by retaining your birthright to be a person.

“The essence of a happy life and a peaceful society lies in one sentence – What can I Give?”

“The bird is powered by its own life and by its motivation.”

“Potential has a shelf life.”

“A home filled with nothing but yourself. It's heavy, that lightness. It's crushing, that emptiness.”

"My dad actually makes the best cookies. My mum is great baker, too, but doesn't share them - it's tantalising! Luckily for me though, my dad shares his!"

"I've never gone on a date... If I've ever had a man in my life, it's because I know him well, and he really means something to me."

"I can't believe we're being paid to live in New York."

"I had a lot of friends in high school, but I was never the wild party girl. Never have been, never plan to be!"