Quotes About Life

I am convinced that it is not the fear of death, of our lives ending that haunts our sleep so much as the fear... that as far as the world is concerned, we might as well never have lived.

Death makes us sad, but it can also make us feel more alive.

I think that people would like to, at all times, reject death and disease with technology.

In order to design buildings with a sensuous connection to life, one must think in a way that goes far beyond form and construction.

That's what all we are: amateurs. We don't live long enough to be anything else.

I deeply believe that a beautiful decor can have a beneficial influence on our lives.

The upward thrust of evolution as part of the design becomes something to preserve and revere.

Design is the fundamental creative activity with which we direct our lives, and collectively, the earth's transformation from its original, natural state into our human-made world.

Experience finds few of the scenes that lively hope designs.

I cannot see ... evidence of design and beneficence ... There seems to me too much misery in the world.

It is the preservation of the species, not of individuals, which appears to be the design of Deity throughout the whole of nature.

The feature of living matter that most demands explanation is that it is almost unimaginably complicated in directions that convey a powerful illusion of deliberate design.

I believe that human beings are born first and given passports later. I'm really thankful for my journey. And it's a journey I didn't design.

Most human beings, though in varying degrees, desire to control, not only their own lives but also the lives of others

If you have many desires your life will be interesting.

Whoever desires this world must seek its knowledge, and whoever desires the next must seek its knowledge.

The world is nothing but a great desire to live and a great dissatisfaction with living.

I must keep alive in myself the desire for my true country, which I shall not find till after death.

Of all the gods only death does not desire gifts.

Tis this desire of bending all things to our own purposes which turns them into confusion and is the chief source of every error in our lives.

I'd rather dance than eat.

All the arts serving human desires and needs are derived from the breath that Godsent into the human body.

For the material, at best, is only temporal, or temporary, while that which may be built from spiritual desire, spiritual purposes, is eternal.

I have no desire to suffer twice, in reality and then in retrospect.