Life Quotes

"To philosophize is to learn to die" "In Algeria, I had begun to get used to the idea that death could strike without warning" "To exist is to dare to throw oneself into the world" "People are strange: they are constantly angered by trivial things, but on a major matter like totally wasting their lives, they hardly seem to notice." "We're all going to die, all of us, what a circus! That alone should make us love each other but it doesn't. We are terrorized and flattened by trivialities, we are eaten up by nothing." "Some people have lives some people have music" "We are stardust brought to life, then empowered by the universe to figure itself out—and we have only just begun." "Life ain't a track meet it's a marathon" "We of the sun, we living creatures " "Peace goes into the making of a poet as flour goes into the making of bread " "We cannot change the cards we are dealt, just how we play the hand " "The powerful play goes on, and you may contribute a verse" "The question, O me! so sad, recurring—What good amid these, O me, O life? Answer: That you are here—that life exists and identity, That the powerful play goes on, and you may contribute a verse" "The whole theory of the universe is directed unerringly to one single individual" "I bequeath myself to the dirt to grow from the grass I love, If you want me again look for me under your boot-soles" "I am aware that life is absurd. It’s just a contest between people enjoying their various symptoms." "One must have the courage to bask in the radiant woven fabric of the high and low things, to feel oneself as though playing, moving lightly between them." "If we were not all so excessively interested in ourselves, life would be so uninteresting that none of us would be able to endure it" "Every parting gives a foretaste of death, every reunion a hint of the resurrection" "Words, once they are printed, have a life of their own."