Quotes About Life

Nature [provides] with the excitement of the dance in the interest of the reproduction of the species.

I work because I need to have two thousand francs in my pocket every month, but I have no desire to glorify work either by enthusiasm or envy or emulation. Life is a mere waiting room in which we spend time before entering into the void. Who would think of working in a waiting room? While awaiting our turn we chat, we look at the pictures on the walls. But work? There is no point in it, if when our turn comes to go into the next room we shall no longer see anything.

No, I don't want to commit suicide, but I should like to fade away and die gently. To depart from life as one gets out of a bath.

Don't just wait, do something, you will save a live

Life is about your destiny.

Your destiny will always remain your destiny.

Time on its back bears all things far away - Full many a challenge is wrought by many a day - Shape, fortune, name, and nature all decay

Man - a being in search of meaning.

Music gives a soul to the universe, wings to the mind, flight to the imagination and life to everything.

No one knows whether death is really the greatest blessing a man can have, but they fear it is the greatest curse, as if they knew well.

Will you not allow that I have as much of the spirit of prophecy in me as the swans? For they, when they perceive that they must die, having sung all their life long, do then sing more lustily than ever, rejoicing in the thought that they are going to the god they serve.

Know one knows whether death, which people fear to be the greatest evil, may not be the greatest good.

O youth or young man, who fancy that you are neglected by the gods, know that if you become worse, you shall go to worse souls, or if better to the better... In every succession of life and death, you will do and suffer what like may fitly suffer at the hands of like. This is the justice of heaven.

And this which you deem of no moment is the very highest of all: that is whether you have a right idea of the gods, whereby you may live your life well or ill.

Attention to health is life's greatest hindrance.

Death is not the worst than can happen to men.

Music gives a soul to the universe, wings to the mind, flight to the imagination, a charm to sadness, gaiety and life to everything. It is the essence of order, and leads to all that is god, just, and beautiful, of which it is the invisible, but never less, dazzaling, passionate, and eternal form.

Music is a moral law. It gives soul to the universe, wings to the mind, flight to the imagination, a charm to sadness, and life to everything.

Courage is what preserves our liberty, safety, life, and our homes and parents, our country and children. Courage comprises all things.

He whom the gods love dies young, while he is in health, has his senses and his judgments sound.

Every man, however wise, needs the advice of some sagacious friend in the affairs of life.

Man alone at the very moment of his birth, cast naked upon the naked earth, does she abandon to cries and lamentations.

No mortal man, moreover is wise at all moments.

The enjoyments of this life are not equal to its evils.