Without an ever-present sense of death, life is insipid. You might as well live on the whites of eggs.
-Muriel Spark "Muriel Spark"
Without an ever-present sense of death, life is insipid. You might as well live on the whites of eggs.
You can live your whole life not realizing that what you're looking for is right in front of you.
-David Nicholas
Life was always a matter of waiting for the right moment to act.
-Paulo Coelho
Remember: the time you feel lonely is the time you most need to be by yourself. Life's cruelest irony.
-Douglas Coupland
"Shampoo Planet"
The shoe that fits one person pinches another; there is no recipe for living that suits all cases.
-Carl Gustav Jung
You ask: What is the meaning or purpose of life? I can only answer with another question: Do you think we are wise enough to read God's mind?
-Freeman Dyson
"The Meaning of Life"
Beware the barrenness of a busy life.
-Socrates
Live simply that others might simply live.
-Elizabeth Ann Seton
You have crossed the great ocean; why do you halt so near the shore? Make haste to get on the other side, Gautama; be careful all the while!
I don't think that there are any limits to how excellent we could make life seem.
-Jonathan Safran Foer
"Everything is Illuminated"