Human life must be some form of mistake

We can regard our life as a uselessly disturbing episode in the blissful repose of nothingness.

Life swings like a pendulum backward and forward between pain and boredom.

Life is a constant process of dying.

The life of every individual, viewed as a whole and in general, and when only its most significant features are emphasized, is really a tragedy; but gone through in detail it has the character of a comedy.

Do not shorten the morning by getting up late; look upon it as the quintessence of life, as to a certain extent sacred