life Quotes

Forty is the old age of youth; fifty the youth of old age.

One sometimes says: 'He killed himself because he was bored with life.' One ought rather to say: 'He killed himself because he was bored by lack of life.'

Short as life is, we make it still shorter by the careless waste of time.

It is nothing to die. It is frightful not to live.

Madame, all stories, if continued far enough, end in death, and he is no true-story teller who would keep that from you.

I love sleep. My life has the tendency to fall apart when I'm awake, you know?

When you go to war as a boy, you have a great illusion of immortality. Other people get killed, not you... Then, when you are badly wounded the first time, you lose that illusion, and you know it can happen to you.

Once writing has become your major vice and greatest pleasure, only death can stop it.

Every man's life ends the same way. It is only the details of how he lived and how he died that distinguish one man from another.

From things that have happened and from things as they exist and from all things that you know and all those you cannot know, you make something through your invention that is not a representation but a whole new thing truer than anything true and alive, and you make it alive, and if you make it well enough, you give it immortality.