life
“The most precious thing in life is its uncertainty.”
“I love sport because I love life, and sport is one of the basic joys of life.”
“In any man who dies there dies with him his first snow and kiss and fight.”
“Leisure moments—he who cannot make way for them does not know how to live.”
“I arise in the morning torn between a desire to improve the world and a desire to enjoy the world.”
“Life is always a tightrope or a feather bed. Give me the tightrope.”
“Strength is life; weakness is death.”
“The wind is rising... we must try to live.”
“Children are the only form of immortality that we can be sure of.”
“Religion enables us to ignore nothingness and get on with the jobs of life.”
“Existence itself does not feel horrible; it feels like an ecstasy, rather, which we have only to be still to experience.”
“Dreams come true; without that possibility, nature would not incite us to have them.”
“Our life is a hope which is continually converting itself into memory, and memory in its turn begets hope.”
“There are pretenses which are very sincere, and marriage is their school.”
“It has often been said that every man who has suffered misfortunes prefers to be himself, even with his misfortunes, rather than to be someone else without them.”
“Apart from the fact there is no normal standard of health, nobody has proved that man is necessarily cheerful by nature.”
“Warmth, warmth, more warmth! for we are dying of cold and not of darkness. It is not the night that kills, but the frost.”
“Life has become immeasurably better since I have been forced to stop taking it seriously.”
“The mass of men lead lives of quiet desperation.”
“May you live every day of your life.”