On Life Quotes
An insatiable appetite for glory leads to sacrifice and death, but innate instinct leads to self-preservation and life.
It's very easy to be cynical about the hall of fame. But on the other hand, it's really a beautiful thing for someone like me. I dedicated my entire life to this music.
Nothing gives you confidence like being a member of a small, weirdly specific, hard-to-find demographic.
It considered trying to explain their error to them, but what would be the use? They would only go away with hurt feelings. You can't always expect people, or squirrels, to be rational.
Christianity . . . sees the necessity for man to have spiritual values and it shows him how to get at those through physical sacraments.
Art—the meaning of the pattern of our common actions in reality. The cloth-of-gold that hides behind the sackcloth of reality, forced out by the pain of human memory.
Art is merely the refuge which the ingenious have invented, when they were supplied with food and women, to escape the tediousness of life.
Art makes the spirit soar. And when the spirit is lifted, life follows.
Work like hell, tell everyone everything you know, close a deal with a handshake, and have fun.
Work may be your dominant thought, and joy an afterthought. But joy is your true purpose, and work the afterthought.
What is the purpose of the giant sequoia tree? The purpose of the giant sequoia tree is to provide shade for the tiny titmouse.
I lay in my bed night after night staring at the ceiling and thinking, Why have I survived the war? Why was I the last person in my immediate family to be alive? I didn’t know.
It is as great a thing to love as it is to be loved. Love is not something that can be wasted.
We all live inside the terrible engine of authority, and it grinds and shrieks and burns so that no one will say: lines on maps are silly.
If we want to truly live, at some point, we find the dark facts of psychic life demand our full attention.
The Government, being resolved to undertake the political and moral purification of our public life, are creating and securing the conditions necessary for a really profound revival of religious life
My life contains so many other things; I have my children, my grandchildren, my two dogs and a big place in the country. I have my own life.
I call on people to be 'obsessed citizens,' forever questioning and asking for accountability. That's the only chance we have today of a healthy and happy life.
Life is a gift from God, an unlimited series of opportunities to find the good in ourselves and others. There is good in everything, if we are willing to see it.
Be clear on where you are and where you want to go and you will get there. It can be the best year of your life.
With songwriting I spend a lot of time living life, accruing all these experiences, journaling, and then by the time I get to the studio I'm teeming with the drive to write.
This divorce between man and his life, the actor and his setting, is properly the feeling of absurdity.
My life is full of meaning to me. The life around me must be full of significance to itself. If I am to expect others to respect my life, then I must respect the other life I see.
At any given moment, life is completely senseless. But viewed over a period, it seems to reveal itself as an organism existing in time, having a purpose, trending in a certain direction.
The vanity of human life is like a river, constantly passing away, and yet constantly coming on.
Sometimes you meet a person and you just click-you're comfortable with them, like you've known them your whole life, and you don't have to pretend to be anyone or anything.
Life is an offensive, directed against the repetitious mechanism of the Universe.
If one's conscious life is too rigid, too regimented, then the surface may crack at times, and we are unprepared for the strange emotions or sensations we experience.
What's risky is living your life and never trying for anything and never doing something brave and never getting yourself scared.
The lessons taught in great books are misleading. The commerce in life is rarely so simple and never so just.
