Quotes About Life

Love life seems to be that factor which requires the largest quantity of magical tinkering.

Suppose we were to teach creationism. What would be the content of the teaching? Merely that a creator formed the universe and all species of life ready-made? Nothing more? No details?

Science doesn't purvey absolute truth. Science is a mechanism. It's a way of trying to improve your knowledge of nature. It's a system for testing your thoughts against the universe and seeing whether they match. And this works, not just for the ordinary aspects of science, but for all of life. I should think people would want to know that what they know is truly what the universe is like, or at least as close as they can get to it.

There is no more desire to live past one's time than to die before it.

Life is pleasant. Death is peaceful. It's the transition that's troublesome.

I write for the same reason I breathe - because if I didn't, I would die.

In life, unlike chess, the game continues after checkmate.

Life is pleasant. Death is peaceful. It's the transition that's troublesome.

I write for the same reason I breathe - because if I didn't, I would die.

hakol havel (Hebrew: "Vanity of vanities… All is vanity"): Ecclesiastes 12:8.

Aunt Pesya!" Benya then said to the disheveled old woman rolling on the floor. "If you want my life, you can have it, but everyone makes mistakes, even God! This was a giant mistake, Aunt Pesya! But didn't God Himself make a mistake when he settled the Jews in Russia so they could be tormented as if they were in hell?

Foolish old age is no less pitiful than cowardly youth.

Outside the wide windows soft snow is drifting. Nearby, on the Nevsky Prospekt, life is blossoming. Far away, in the Carpathian Mountains, blood is flowing. C'est la vie.

What did our dear Joseph manage to see in life? Bupkis is what.

There are people in this world who are doomed to die, and there are people who have not yet begun to live.

Life is God's novel. Let him write it.

What nature creates has eternity in it.

Two important things are to have a genuine interest in people and to be kind to them. Kindness, I've discovered, is everything in life.

There is a quiet humor in Yiddish and a gratitude for every day of life, every crumb of success, each encounter of love…. In a figurative way, Yiddish is the wise and humble language of us all, the idiom of a frightened and hopeful humanity.

The very essence of literature is the war between emotion and intellect, between life and death. When literature becomes too intellectual - when it begins to ignore the passions, the emotions - it becomes sterile, silly, and actually without substance.

The very essence of literature is the war between emotion and intellect, between life and death. When literature becomes too intellectual -- when it begins to ignore the passions, the motions -- it becomes sterile, silly, and actually without substance.

Life is God's novel. Let him write it.

Every human character appears only once in the history of human beings. And so does every event of love.

I do not think that a man's rise to power is necessarily the climax of his life or that his loss of office should be equated with his fall.