Here I am trying to live, or rather, I am trying to teach the death within me how to live.
-Jean Cocteau
Quotations
Life
Life doesn't make any sense, and we all pretend it does. Comedy's job is to point out that it doesn't make sense, and that it doesn't make much difference anyway.
-Eric Idle
There are two tragedies in life. One is to lose your heart's desire. The other is to gain it.
-George Bernard Shaw
There are two things to aim at in life: first to get what you want; and after that to enjoy it. Only the wisest of mankind achieve the second.
-Logan P. Smith
Goodness and holistic way of living go together.
-J. Krishnamurti
However mean your life is, meet it and live it.
-Henry David Thoreau
Reverence for life affords me my fundamental principle of morality, namely that good consists in maintaining, assisting, and enhancing life, and that to destroy, to harm, or to hinder life is evil.
-Albert Schweitzer "Albert Schweitzer"
Achieving life is not the equivalent of avoiding death.
-Ayn Rand
In order to lead a successful human life you should have in your nature...a heart
of an artist, vision of a scientist, an astute business acumen, pride of self reliance,
the art of being joyous, a zest for life and lastly, a self-content nature; you should
essentially have a fair mix of all the above mentioned seven qualities.
-Deep Trivedi
I don't think that there are any limits to how excellent we could make life seem.
-Jonathan Safran Foer
"Everything is Illuminated"
