Death is really a great blessing for humanity, without it there could be no real progress. People who lived for ever would not only hamper and discourage the young, but they would themselves lack sufficient stimulus to be creative.
“It is easier to fight for one’s principles than to live up to them.”
I have a lot of work to do today; I need to slaughter memory, Turn my living soul to stone Then teach myself to live again.
Forgive me, that I manage badly, Manage badly but live gloriously, That I leave traces of myself in my songs, That I appeared to you in waking dreams.
Our enemies are Medes and Persians, men who for centuries have lived soft and luxurious lives; we of Macedon for generations past have been trained in the hard school of danger and war.
I want to live among human people, very human. People, who can laugh at their mistakes.
I want to live another thousand years.
Better to illuminate than merely to shine to deliver to others contemplated truths than merely to contemplate.
Man cannot live without joy; therefore when he is deprived of true spiritual joys it is necessary that he become addicted to carnal pleasures.
These impossible women! How they do get around us! The poet was right: Can't live with them, or without them.
When you arise in the morning, think of what a precious privilege it is to be alive, to breathe, to think, to enjoy, to love.
He who lives in harmony with himself lives in harmony with the universe.
Remember that man lives only in the present, in this fleeting instant; all the rest of his life is either past and gone, or not yet revealed. Short, therefore, is man's life, and narrow is the corner of the earth wherein he dwells.
Death hangs over you. While you live, while it is in your power, be good.
It is not death that a man should fear. He should fear never beginning to live.
I hate to hear you talk about all women as if they were fine ladies instead of rational creatures. None of us want to be in calm waters all our lives.
There is another world, other than the one we choose to live in
Real poetry, is to lead a beautiful life. To live poetry is better than to write it.
Everything must come from the heart, must be lived.
If you live long enough, you'll see that every victory turns into a defeat.
Two separate beings, in different circumstances, face to face in freedom and seeking justification of their existence through one another, will always live an adventure full of risk and promise.
..Men do not sufficiently realize that their future is in their own hands. Theirs is the task of determining first of all whether they want to go on living or not. Theirs is the responsibility, then, for deciding if they want merely to live, or intend to make just the extra effort required for fulfilling, even on this refractory planet, the essential function of the universe, which is a machine for the making of gods.”
Hoping to live days of greater happiness, I forget that days of less happiness are passing by.
No one who has lived even for a fleeting moment for something other than life in its conventional sense and has experienced the exaltation that this feeling produces can then renounce his new freedom so easily.
It may be you fear more to deliver judgment upon me than I fear judgment.
The person who tries to live alone will not succeed as a human being. His heart withers if it does not answer another heart. His mind shrinks away if he hears only the echoes of his own thoughts and finds no other inspiration.
Just as a candle cannot burn without fire, men cannot live without a spiritual life.
The secret of health for both mind and body is not to mourn for the past, nor to worry about the future, but to live the present moment wisely and earnestly.
I have great hopes that we shall love each other all our lives as much as if we had never married at all.
Always bear in mind that the people are not fighting for ideas, for the things in anyone’s head. They are fighting to win material benefits, to live better and in peace, to see their lives go forward, to guarantee the future of their children.
Do not confuse the reality you live in with the ideas you have in your head.
I have lived long enough both in years and in accomplishments.
You will never be happy if you continue to search for what happiness consists of. You will never live if you are looking for the meaning of life.
“As long as you live, there's always something waiting; and even if it's bad, and you know it's bad, what can you do? You can't stop living.”
You live but once; you might as well be amusing.
Life is given only once, and one wants to live it boldly, with full conscious and beauty.
Books are more than books, they are the life, the very heart and core of ages past, the reason why men worked and died, the essence and quintessence of their lives.
No one is so old as to think that he cannot live one more year.
The question is not how to get cured, but how to live.
We live as we dream--alone...
Beauty, like truth, is relative to the time when one lives and to the individual who can grasp it.
I hope to live all my life for my art, without abandoning my principles one iota.
Unbeing dead isn't being alive.
Consider your origins: you were not made to live as brutes, but to follow virtue and knowledge.
Sarcasm helps me overcome the harsh reality we live in, eases pain and makes people smile.
Happiness resides not in possessions, and not in gold, happiness lives in the soul.
If I can stop one heart from breaking, I shall not live in vain.
To live without Hope is to Cease to live
It's necessary to have wished for death in order to know how good it is to live.
If you want to keep your memories, you first have to live them.
Learn from yesterday, live for today, hope for tomorrow. The important thing is not to stop questioning.
“It seems to me we can never give up longing and wishing while we are still alive. There are certain things we feel to be beautiful and good, and we must hunger for them.”
“What do we live for, if it is not to make life less difficult for each other?”
A woman is more beautiful than the world in which I live; and so I close my eyes.
Everybody belives in love, but some are wondering if it really exists.
The essence of philosophy is that a man should so live that his happiness shall depend as little as possible on external things.
The essence of philosophy is that a man should live so that his happiness will depend as little as possible on external things.
You only live twice. Once when you are born and once when you look death in the face.
We all live with the objective of being happy; our lives are all different and yet the same.
“Those who have a 'why' to live, can bear with almost any 'how'.
Unexpressed emotions will never die. They are buried alive and will come forth later in uglier ways.”
I live through risk. Without risk there is no art. You should always be on the edge of a cliff about to fall down and break your neck.
You start by writing to live. You end by writing so as not to die.
The depth of darkness to which you can descend and still live is an exact measure of the height to which you can aspire to reach.
Less is always more. The best language is silence. We live in a time of a terrible inflation of words, and it is worse than the inflation of money.
Life has no meaning unless one lives it with a will, at least to the limit of one's will. Virtue, good, evil are nothing but words, unless one takes them apart in order to build something with them; they do not win their true meaning until one knows how to apply them.
As soon as you trust yourself, you will know how to live.
I often think that the night is more alive and more richly colored than the day.
...nothing could be more pleasant than to live in solitude, enjoy the spectacle of nature, and occasionally read some book... ...
Writers build castles in the air, the reader lives inside, and the publisher inns the rent.
The point of modernity is to live a life without illusions while not becoming disillusioned.
I live, which is the main point.
“Every man's life ends the same way. It is only the details of how he lived and how he died that distinguish one man from another.
Though wisdom is common, yet the many live as if they had a wisdom of their own.
What constitutes a real, live human being is more of a mystery than ever these days, and men each one of whom is a valuable, unique experiment on the part of nature are shot down wholesale.
To live! like a tree alone and free, To live! like a forest in brotherhood/sisterhood...
However and wherever we are, we must live as if we will never die.”
Living is no laughing matter: you must live with great seriousness like a squirrel for example - I mean without looking for something beyond and above living, I mean living must be your whole occupation.”
There is no such thing as perpetual tranquillity of mind while we live here; because life itself is but motion, and can never be without desire, nor without fear, no more than without sense.
We rarely find anyone who can say he has lived a happy life, and who, content with his life, can retire from the world like a satisfied guest.
The only calibration that counts is how much heart people invest, how much they ignore their fears of being hurt or caught out or humiliated. And the only thing people regret is that they didn't live boldly enough, that they didn't invest enough heart, didn't love enough. Nothing else really counts at all.
To live is to war with trolls.”
No society has been able to abolish human sadness, no political system can deliver us from the pain of living, from our fear of death, our thirst for the absolute. It is the human condition that directs the social condition, not vice versa.
My ancestors were Brahmins. They spent their lives in search of god. I am spending my life in search of man
I do not cut my life up into days but my days into lives, each day, each hour, an entire life.
To live is nothing more than to come here to die, to be what we were before being born, but with apprenticeship, experience, knowledge of cause, and perhaps with will.
The greatest tragedy of the family is the unlived lives of the parents.
Who has fully realized that history is not contained in thick books but lives in our very blood?
Anyone who cannot come to terms with his life while he is alive needs one hand to ward off a little his despair over his fate... but with his other hand he can note down what he sees among the ruins.
..today well lived makes every yesterday a dream of happiness, and every tomorrow a vision of hope
Life is trouble. Only death is not. To be alive is to undo your belt and look for trouble.
I hope it is true that a man can die and yet not only live in others but give them life, and not only life, but that great consciousness of life.
Live, travel, adventure, bless, and don't be sorry
Life can only be understood backwards; but it must be lived forwards.
We must live together as brothers or perish together as fools.
I have a dream that my four little children will one day live in a nation where they will not be judged by the color of their skin but by the content of their character.
If a man is called to be a street sweeper, he should sweep streets even as a Michaelangelo painted, or Beethoven composed music or Shakespeare wrote poetry. He should sweep streets so well that all the hosts of heaven and earth will pause to say, 'Here lived a great street sweeper who did his job well
Our lives begin to end the day we become silent about things that matter.
What is joy? The wish to live. The joy of life. Who care for awards!
My whole working philosophy is that the only stable happiness for mankind is that it shall live married in blessed union to woman-kind - intimacy, physical and psychical between a man and his wife. I wish to add that my state of bliss is by no means perfect.
I want to live my life so that my nights are not full of regrets.
A woman has to live her life, or live to repent not having lived it.
We've got to live, no matter how many skies have fallen. - Life is ours to be spent, not to be saved.
Perfection belongs to narrated events, not to those we live.
Life is a strange thing. Why this longing for life? It is a game which no man wins. To live is to toil hard and to suffer sore, till old age creeps heavily upon us and we throw down our hands on the cold ashes of dead fires. It is hard to live. In pain the babe sucks his first breath, in pain the old man gasps his last, and all his days are full of trouble and sorrow; yet he goes down to the open arms of death, stumbling, falling, with head turned backward, fighting to the last. And death is kind. It is only life and the things of life that hurt. Yet we love life and we hate death. It is very strange.
There is an ecstasy that marks the summit of life, and beyond which life cannot rise. And such is the paradox of living, this ecstasy comes when one is most alive, and it comes as a complete forgetfulness that one is alive.
I'd rather sing one wild song and burst my heart with it, than live a thousand years watching my digestion and being afraid of the wet
Only mystery allows us to live, only mystery.
I will be happy if at least one or two of my songs stay alive. Then I will live as a composer.
There was no sign of Plato, and I was told later that he had gone to live in his Republic, where he was cheerfully submitting to his own Laws. [...] None of the Stoics were present. Rumour had it that they were still clambering up the steep hill of Virtue [...]. As for the Sceptics, it appeared that they were extremely anxious to get there, but still could not quite make up their minds whether or not the island really existed.
To be a Christian without prayer is no more possible than to be alive without breathing.
Those who devote their lives to earning a living are incapable of living a human existence.
Love the life you live. Live the life you love.
Wake up and live!
How shall the soul of a man be larger than the life he has lived?
We live always under the weight of the old and odious customs … of our barbarous ancestors.
It is the lives we encounter that make life worth living.
We cannot live only for ourselves. A thousand fibers connect us with our fellow men; and among those fibers, as sympathetic threads, our actions run as causes, and they come back to us as effects.
We live, not as we wish to, but as we can.
I have no money, no resources, no hopes. I am the happiest man alive.
The aim of life is to live, and to live means to be aware, joyously, drunkenly, serenely, divinely aware.
I only live for the moments I am in the podium and in order to live those moments, I spend my life preparing myself with discipline, doubts and humility.
You are not alive unless you know you are living.
My art and profession is to live.”
The colors live a remarkable life of their own after they have been applied to the canvas.
Till ye have battled with great grief and fears/And borne the conflict of dream-shattering years/Wounded with fierce desire and worn with strife/Children, ye have not lived: for this is life.”
If you wish to be a success in the world, promise everything, deliver nothing.
To live is to suffer, to survive is to find some meaning in the suffering.
All those who try to unveil the mysteries always have tragic lives. At the end they are always punished.
Man is born to live and not to prepare to
What you leave behind is not what is engraved in α stone monument, but what is woven into the lives of others.
The whole earth is the tomb of heroic men and their story is not given only on stone over their clay but abides everywhere without visible symbol woven into the stuff of other mens lives.
To feel today what one felt yesterday isn't to feel - it's to remember today what was felt yesterday, to be today's living corpse of what yesterday was lived and lost.
The depth of darkness to which you can descend and still live is an exact measure of the height to which you can aspire to reach.
To be ignorant of the lives of the most celebrated men of antiquity is to continue in a state of childhood all our days.
And die of nothing but from rage to live.
Good tests kill flawed theories; we remain alive to guess again.
One lives in the hope of becoming a memory.
“No man understands a deep book until he has seen and lived at least part of its contents.
Properly, we should read for power. Man reading should be man intensely alive. The book should be a ball of light in one's hand.
The image is one thing and the human being is another. It's very hard to live up to an image, put it that way.
I lived in art, I lived in love, I never hurt a soul.
You can live happily if you live in the present.
Love, work, and knowledge are the wellsprings of our lives, they should also govern it.
Have patience with everything that remains unsolved in your heart. ...live in the question.
I live my life in widening circles that reach out across the world.
Only someone who is ready for everything, who doesn't exclude any experience, even the most incomprehensible, will live the relationship with another person as something alive and will himself sound the depths of his own being.
Perhaps all the dragons in our lives are princesses who are only waiting to see us act, just once, with beauty and courage. Perhaps everything that frightens us is, in its deepest essence, something helpless that wants our love.
To achieve greatness one should live as if they will never die.
Forget safety. Live where you fear to live. Destroy your reputation. Be notorious.
A happy life must be to a great extent a quiet life, for it is only in an atmosphere of quiet that true joy dare live.
When we live in a world that is very unjust, you have to be a dissident.
To work hard, to live hard, to die hard, and then go to hell after all would be too damn hard.
I tell you the past is a bucket of ashes, so live not in your yesterdays, no just for tomorrow, but in the here and now.
When all is said and done, what is clear is that all lives end before their time.
He who has done his best for his own time has lived for all times.
Our castle is not imposing, but is well built, and surrounded by a very fine garden. I live in the bailiff's house.
Eventually all things fall into place. Until then, laugh at the confusion, live for the moments, and know everythin happens for a reason.
“Had we lived, I should have had a tale to tell of the hardihood, endurance and courage of my companions which would have stirred the heart of every Englishman. These rough notes and our dead bodies must tell the tale.”
Life, if well lived, is long enough.
As long as you live, keep learning how to live.
God is the hope, we all have inside us and keep us alive. God is the soul, or otherwise the energy we have inside us and help us to deal with everything in life. God is the birth, a new life from nothing, from no existence to existence.
Those who do not know how to live must make a merit of dying.
I'm gonna live untill I die.
Some of us learn control, more or less by accident. The rest of us go all our lives not even understanding how it is possible, and blaming our failure on being born the wrong way.
I was really too honest a man to be a politician and live.
Worthless people live only to eat and drink; people of worth eat and drink only to live.
I am the wisest man alive, for I know one thing, and that is that I know nothing
Best to live lightly, unthinkingly.
Life is not to live alone.
The more you struggle to live, the less you live. Give up the notion that you must be sure of what you are doing. Instead, surrender to what is real within you, for that alone is sure....you are above everything distressing.
To live is to die.
Every man desires to live long, but no man wishes to be old.
May you live every day of your life.
No immortality ever lives Without love!
We live in the world when we love it.
Do not be in a hurry to succeed. What would you have to live for afterwards? Better make the horizon your goal; it will always be ahead of you.
Many men go fishing all of their lives without knowing that it is not fish they are after.
What lies behind us and what lies ahead of us are tiny matters compared to what lives within us.
I went to the woods because I wished to live deliberately, to front only the essential facts of life, and see if I could not learn what it had to teach, and not, when I came to die, discover that I had not lived.
True life is lived when tiny changes occur.
The fear of death follows from the fear of life. A man who lives fully is prepared to die at any time.
All the wonders you seek are within yourself. We should seek to discover our own special light. Know how to live within yourself;
A man does not die of love or his liver or even of old age; he dies of being a man.
We are most alive when we're in love.
to live means to lack something at every moment.
Labor to keep alive in your breast that little spark of celestial fire, called conscience.
“Most people are other people. Their thoughts are someone else's opinions, their lives a mimicry, their passions a quotation.”
To live is the rarest thing in the world. Most people exist, that is all.
We can only be said to be alive in those moments when our hearts are conscious of our treasures.
Whom shall I call on? Who will share with me The wretched happiness of staying alive?
If you ask me what I came to do in this world, I, an artist, will answer you: I am here to live out loud.