Quotes About Life

I am prepared to meet my Maker. Whether my Maker is prepared for the great ordeal of meeting me is another matter.

He was born with a gift of laughter and a sense that the world was mad.

Great people and great athletes realize early in their lives their destiny, and accept it. Even if they do not consciously realize the how, the where, the what.

Sensations are the great things, after all. Should you ever be drowned or hung, be sure and make a note of your sensations; they will be worth to you ten guineas a sheet.

I want to remember it all, the good times and the bad times, the late nights, the boozing, the dancing into dawns, and all the great and not-so-great people I met and loved in those years.

If you never take risks, you'll never accomplish great things. Everybody dies, but not everyone has lived.

Truly great men must, I think, experience great sorrow on the earth.

It's a great day to be alive. I know the sun's still shining when I close my eyes.

Behind all this, some great happiness is hiding.

I can't moan about any of it. I had a great time in the goldfish bowl.

That's the great paradox of living on this earth, that in the midst of great pain you can have great joy as well. If we didn't have those things we'd just be numb.

A lot of people have great hope, and a lot of people who have great hope live. And, some of them who have great hope die. So it's not that hope is going to save you.

You need to see a bit of hell now and then. That, and great joy.

I think my great book is Born to Sing: An Interpretation and World Survey of Bird Song.

There is nothing, Sir, too little for so little a creature as man. It is by studying little things that we attain the great art of having as little misery and as much happiness as possible.

So we drove on toward death through the cooling twilight.

Great feelings take with them their own universe, splendid or abject.

Death is the great adventure beside which moon landings and space trips pale in insignificance.

Do you realize that all great literature is all about what a bummer it is to be a human being? Isn't it such a relief to have somebody say that?

Our bodies are shaped to bear children, and our lives are a working out of the processes of creation. All our ambitions and intelligence are beside that great elemental point.

One of the great lessons the fall of the leaf teaches, is this: do your work well and then be ready to depart when God shall call.

I'm not a famous celebrity of any kind. I'm a guy from Edmonton who's got a great job and I'm loving it.

The lower one's vitality, the more sensitive one is to great art.

I try to find humor in everything I do, because I think all great plays - even great tragedies - have enormous humor in them.