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All animals but men know that the principle business of life is to enjoy it -and they do enjoy it as much as man and other circumstances will allow it.

- Butler, Samuel

Life is a quarry, out of which we are to mold and chisel and complete a character.

- Butler, Samuel

Don't go through life, grow through life.

- Butterworth, Eric

Death, so called, is a thing which makes men weep, And yet a third of life is passed in sleep.

- Byron, Lord

The whole business of your life overwhelms you when you live alone. One?s stupefied by it. To get rid of it you try to daub some of it off on to people who come to see you, and they hate that. To be alone trains one for death.

- C?line, Louis-Ferdinand

...But nature does not say that cats are more valuable than mice; nature makes no remark on the subject. She does not even say that the cat is enviable or the mouse pitiable. We think the cat superior because we have (or most of us have) a particular philosophy to the effect that life is better than death. But if the mouse were a German pessimist mouse, he might not think that the cat had beaten him at all. He might think he had beaten the cat by getting to the grave first.

- Chesterton, G.K.

To believe in one's dreams is to spend all of one's life asleep.

- Chinese Proverb

The actual tragedies of life bear no relation to one's preconceived ideas. In the event, one is always bewildered by their simplicity, their grandeur of design, and by that element of the bizzare which seems inherent in them.

- Cocteau, Jean

Life is but thought.

- Coleridge, Samuel T.

Happiness, that grand mistress of the ceremonies in the dance of life, impels us through all its mazes and meanderings, but leads none of us by the same route.

- Colton, Charles C.