Quotes about Life

I can very well do without God both in my life and in my painting, but I cannot, ill as I am, do without something which is greater than I, which is my life - the power to create. And if, defrauded of the power to create physically, a man tries to create thoughts in place of children, he is still very much part of humanity.

How much sadness there is in life. Still, it won't do to become depressed, one should turn to other things, and the right thing is work, but there are times when one can only find peace of mind in the realization: I, too, shall not be spared by unhappiness"_Page.241

I often think that the night is more alive and more richly colored than the day.

Art is to console those who are broken by life.

Every secret of a writer's soul, every experience of his life, every quality of his mind is written large in his works.

Each has his past shut in him like the leaves of a book shown to him by heart, and his friends can only read the title.

The man who is aware of himself is henceforward independent and he is never bored, and life is only too short, and he is steeped through and through with a profound yet temperate happiness.

You can not gain peace by avoiding life.

Baseball is the most perfect of games, solid, true, pure and precious as diamonds. If only life were so simple. Within the baselines anything can happen. Tides can reverse; oceans can open. That's why they say, "the game is never over until the last man is out." Colors can change, lives can alter, anything is possible in this gentle, flawless, loving game.

Hardly anybody recognizes the most significant moments of their life at the time they happen.

If I had my life to live over again, I'd take more chances. I'd want more passion in my life. Less fear and more passion, more risk. Even if you fail, you've still taken a risk.

If they would rather die, . . . they had better do it, and decrease the surplus population.