Quotes About Life

After a while, just staying alive becomes a full-time job. No wonder we need a vacation.

The memories we take to the ends of our lives have no real rhyme or reason, especially when you think of the endless things that you do over the course of a day, a week , a month, a year, a lifetime. All the cups of coffee, hand-washings, changes of clothes, lunches, goings to the bathroom, headaches, naps, walks to school, trips to the grocery store, conversations about the weather ---all the things so unimportant that they should be immediately forgotten. Yet they aren't

I thought that nothing enormously bad or good had happened to me during my life. All the normal things had occurred. I had lived a completely unremarkable life. I wanted only my home, and the love and safety of those around me, nothing else. I knew there was no particular reason why I was put on this earth, but here I was and I was glad to be here, awed by the beauty of it. It was a perfect moment. (p.99)

But what I do love about this road is how the gaudy becomes grand, how tastelessness is a way of everyday life

We pass a church with a massive blue neon cross, and I am spiritually lifted by feelings of great religiosity. No, I'm not, for crying out loud. Don't be ridiculous. But what I do love about this road is how the gaudy becomes grand, how tastelessness is a way of everyday life. You have to admire how these people shamelessly try to get your attention as you drive by, whether they're trying to feed you a hamburger or a savior. (p.37)

Know this: even if you're like us and still doddering around above ground, someone out there from your past is probably pretty sure that you're dead by now. (p.125 )

Any existence deprived of freedom is a kind of death.

men are as vulnerable to joy as they are to suffering.

Every word written is a victory against Death.

I want death to find me planting my cabbages.

Wherever your life ends, it is all there. The advantage of living is not measured by length, but by use; some men have lived long, and lived little; attend to it while you are in it. It lies in your will, not in the number of years, for you to have lived enough.

Every man bears the whole stamp of the human condition.

Those who have compared our life to a dream were right…. We sleeping wake, and waking sleep.

The ceaseless labour of your life is to build the house of death.

He who would teach men to die would teach them to live.

Live as long as you please, you will strike nothing off the time you will have to spend dead.

The value of life lies not in the length of days, but in the use we make of them... Whether you find satisfaction in life depends not on your tale of years, but on your will.

It is not death, it is dying that alarms me.

My trade and art is to live.

My trade and my art is living.

If you don't know how to die, don't worry Nature will tell you what to do on the spot, fully and adequately. She will do this job perfectly for you don't bother your head about it.

Every period of life has its peculiar prejudices; whoever saw old age, that did not applaud the past, and condemn the present times?

The great and glorious masterpiece of man is how to live with purpose.

He who would teach men to die would at the same time teach them to live.