3,134 Quotes About Life-and-living

Death is liberating only if one has planned for it. But I think no one truly does, except for a few people with suicidal inclinations, or perhaps, deeply content wandering ascetics. For most of us mortals, life insurance is the one thing that gives us the reassurance of planning well for the event of our death.

... he preferred being stimulated to being bored.

We are great if we have courage and friendship, but not if we only read books.

Nije život ono što se događa, već ono kako vi gledate na to što se događa.

There's no point in living without pleasure of living.

Don't try to be everywhere. Just be here and do your thing. That's heaven on earth.

And what can life be worth if the first rehearsal for life is life itself? That is why lifeis always like a sketch. No, sketch is not quite the word, because a sketch is an outlineof something, the groundwork for a picture, whereas the sketch that is our life is asketch for nothing, an outline with no picture.

I was talking to a friend last night, about pain. She said, "Pain doesn't go away, does it? It just lessens with time." And I said, "I think that the pain can be turned into other things... the pain is like the holes in the ground, but I think that we can turn the holes in the ground into little pools of water we can jump into. It's still a part of us, but, we can change its nature. Hopefully. Sometimes." And I think that just might be true.

A life without passion is a slow freeze to death my dear Peter and you were never the cryogenic type.