Quotes about Life

Terry Kitchen asked me one time why, since I had so few gifts as a husband and father, I had gotten married. And I heard myself say: "That's the way the post-war movie goes.

For the children with their greedy little mouths represent the future, which like time itself will devour all now alive.

It's not how long a man lives, but how well he uses the time allotted him.

April 1. This is the day upon which we are reminded of what we are on the other three hundred and sixty-four..

I was standing in our dining-room thinking of nothing in particular, when a cablegram was put into my hand. It said, 'Susy was peacefully released today.' It is one of the mysteries of our nature that a man, all unprepared, can receive a thunder-stroke like that and live.

Homely truth is unpalatable.

Life would be infinitely happier if we could only be born at the age of eighty and gradually approach eighteen.

I came in with Halley's Comet in 1835. It is coming again next year, and I expect to go out with it. It will be the greatest disappointment of my life if I don't go out with Halley's Comet. The Almighty has said, no doubt: Now here are these two unaccountable freaks; they came in together, they must go out together.

In this life, Satan, but in another? We shall meet in another, surely? Then, all tranquilly and soberly, he made the strange answer, There is no other.

After a long time and many questions, Satan said, The spider kills the fly, and eats it; the bird kills the spider and eats it; the wildcat kills the goose; the -- well, they all kill each other. It is murder all along the line. Here are countless multitudes of creatures, and they all kill, kill, kill, they are all murderers. And they are not to blame, Divine One?

No narrative that tells the facts of a man's life in the man's own words can be uninteresting.

We are so strangely made; the memories that could make us happy pass away; it is the memories that break our hearts that abide.