life

"Cowards die many times before their deaths; The valiant never taste of death but once. Of all the wonders that I yet have heard, It seems to me most strange that men should fear; Seeing that death, a necessary end, Will come when it will come."

"Life is short, the art long."

"Cinema is the ultimate pervert art. It doesn't give you what you desire - it tells you how to desire."

"No single event can awaken within us a stranger whose existence we had never suspected. To live is to be slowly born."

"I still find each day too short for all the thoughts I want to think, all the walks I want to take, all the books I want to read, and all the friends I want to see."

"How people treat you is their karma; how you react is yours."

"If you think somebody cares about you and believes your life is worth saving, how can you give up?"

"A happy life is one spent in learning, earning, and yearning."

"Self-growth comes from being nurtured, not tortured. I had to learn this the hard way. On sale now: Iron Maiden. Only used once."

"What sweetness is left in life, if you take away friendship? Robbing life of friendship is like robbing the world of the sun. A true friend is more to be esteemed than kinsfolk."

"Bring something incomprehensible into the world!"

"Pulvis et umbra sumus. It's a line from Horace. 'We are dust and shadows'. Appropriate, don't you think?"Will said. "It's not a long life, killing demons; one tends to die young, and then they burn your body - dust to dust, in the literal sense. And then we vanish into the shadows of history, nary a mark on the page of a mundane book to remind the world that once we existed at all."

"Stop asking God to bless what you're doing. Find out what God's doing. It's already blessed."

"It is my aim, my destination in life to make the cello as beloved an instrument as the violin and piano."

"It's a wonderful world. You can't go backwards. You're always moving forward. It's the wonderful part about life. And that's terrific."

"All the world's a stage and most of us are desperately unrehearsed."

"Is life not a thousand times too short for us to bore ourselves?"

"I do not believe anyone can be perfectly well, who has a brain and a heart"

"Life is a comedy to those who think, a tragedy to those who feel."

"If you want something you can have it, but only if you want everything that goes with it, including all the hard work and the despair, and only if you're willing to risk failure."