There are only two ways to live your life. One is as though nothing is a miracle. The other is as though everything is a miracle.
Life is nothing but a competition to be the criminal rather than the victim.
I think the highest and lowest points are the important ones. Anything else is just...in between.
It is not the length of life, but the depth.
Wrinkles are engraved smiles.
If man limits himself to a satisfied animal existence, and asks from life only what such an existence can give, the higher values of life at once disappear.
I can't help thinking that there are only one or two ways of being brought into this world, but there are so many fucked-up ways of leaving it.
There's place and means for every man alive.
Life can only be understood backwards; but it must be lived forwards.
The knowledge of oneself will preserve that person from vanity.
History repeats itself, first as tragedy, second as farce.
For life in general, there is but one decree: youth is a blunder, manhood a struggle, old age a regret.
Between two evils, I always pick the one I never tried before.
Don't let making a living prevent you from making a life.
Life is a disease, brother, and death begins already at birth. Every breath, every heartbeat, is a moment of dying - a little shove toward the end.
I believe that the very purpose of our life is to seek happiness. That is clear. Whether one believes in religion or not, whether one believes in this religion or that religion, we all are seeking something better in life. So, I think, the very motion of our life is towards happiness
We fear our highest possibility (as well as our lowest one). We are generally afraid to become that which we can glimpse in our most perfect moments.
To conceal anything from those to whom I am attached, is not in my nature. I can never close my lips where I have opened my heart.
There is nothing more frightful than ignorance in action.
In every tragedy, an element of comedy is preserved. Comedy is just tragedy reversed.
People do not like to think. If one thinks, one must reach conclusions. Conclusions are not always pleasant.
