“The world may be utterly crazy
And life may be labour in vain;
But I'd rather be silly than lazy,
And would not quit life for its pain.”

“I'd rather live a hard life of fact than a sweet life of lies.”

“I'd rather offer my life as a sacrifice than be necessary to anything.”

“It is time to face real world, even if it is harder and painful. I'd rather fly and crash, than just snuggle and sleep.”

“That is the Crazy Woman
Who would not sing in May.”

“So long as you can sweeten another's pain, life is not in vain.”

“Happiness is not a life without pain, but rather a life in which the pain is traded for a worthy price.”

“It is not in the world of ideas that life is lived. Life is lived for better or worse in life, and to a man in life, his life can be no more absurd than it can be the opposite of absurd, whatever that opposite may be.”

“Believe, when you are most unhappy, that there is something for you to do in the world. So long as you can sweeten another's pain, life is not in vain.”

“If I hadn't have had music in my life, it's quite possible I could be in here. Or nor even in here, be dead — and I'd much rather be alive.”