Life & Aging Sayings

The more I live, the more I become convinced that the only true happiness in life is to live for others.

There are darknesses in life and there are lights, and you are one of the lights, the light of all lights.

Life is a voyage. A ship is not built for a harbor.

One day, you will be old enough to start reading fairy tales again.

Life is too short to be spent in nursing animosity or registering wrongs.

Fiction is like a spider's web, attached ever so lightly perhaps, but still attached to life at all four corners.

The highest and most important things in life are not to be found in the realm of the senses.

Live the full life of the mind, exhilarated by new ideas, intoxicated by the Romance of the unusual.

I hope you live a life you’re proud of. If you find that you’re not, I hope you have the strength to start all over again.

Sleep is a good invention, isn't it?

As a writer, I can't think of anything more important than a language that is accurate and precise, but also beautiful and provocative.

I've learned that life is a roller coaster. You have to ride it, and sometimes scream a little. And maybe throw your hands up in the air.

Life imitates Art far more than Art imitates Life.

The Sun — just touched the Morning — The Morning — Happy thing — Supposed that He had come to dwell — And Life — would all be Spring —

I may be a fool, but I'm not a stupid fool.

Who is the happier man, he who has braved the storm of life and lived, or he who has stayed securely on shore and merely existed?

You can't fight for your life and win, and then expect to go back to normal.

My life has been a miracle. I'm a boy who never went to college, who never went to high school. I'm a boy who went to the library.

I hate to be told by some guy in a suit that I shouldn't be writing about this or that because it's not 'marketable.'

The only way to get through life is to laugh at it.