Without an ever-present sense of death, life is insipid. You might as well live on the whites of eggs.
-Muriel Spark "Muriel Spark"
Quotations
Life
-Muriel Spark "Muriel Spark"
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!
-Scriptures "Uttaradhyayana Sutra 10.34"
I don't think that there are any limits to how excellent we could make life seem.
-Jonathan Safran Foer
"Everything is Illuminated"
