Quotes about Life

If I should ever die, God forbid, let this be my epitaph: THE ONLY PROOF HE NEEDED FOR THE EXISTENCE OF GOD WAS MUSIC

Dear old world', she murmured, 'you are very lovely, and I am glad to be alive in you.

Sister Hinckley and I are learning that the so-called golden years are laced with lead.

Einmal ist keinmal, says Tomas to himself. What happens but once, says the German adage, might as well not have happened at all. If we have only one life to live, we might as well not have lived at all.

Without realizing it, the individual composes his life according to the laws of beauty even in times of greatest distress.

I have no mission. No one has.

Living, there is no happiness in that. Living: carrying one's painful self through the world. But being, being is happiness. Being: Becoming a fountain, a fountain on which the universe falls like warm rain.

Ah, ladies and gentlemen, a man lives a sad life when he cannot take anything or anyone seriously.

History is as light as individual human life, unbearably light, light as a feather, as dust swirling into the air, as whatever will no longer exist tomorrow.

But man, because he has only one life to live, cannot conduct experiments to test whether to follow his passion (compassion) or not.

The novel is a meditation on existence as seen through the medium of imaginary characters.

Mesmerized, all she can do is watch this piece of her life move off; all she can do is watch it and suffer. She is experiencing a brand-new feeling called nostalgia. That feeling, that irrepressible yearning to return, suddenly reveals to her the existence of the past, the power of the past, of her past; in the house of her life […] from now on her existence will be inconceivable without these feelings.