Quotes about life and existence
We are all born mad. Some remain so.
Art is perfectly useless, as life is.
Literature is mostly about having sex and not much about having children. Life is the other way around.
I am fascinated by life. Leonard thinks I'm kidding.
Happiness is not a destination, it is a manner of traveling. Happiness is not an end in itself.
Could we change our attitude, we should not only see life differently, but life itself would come to be different.
Art is the Daughter of Freedom.
Every man's work, whether it be literature, or music or pictures or architecture or anything else, is always a portrait of himself.
In a hundred years time, I expect to be sketched in black and white, and to haunt a house, visited by admirers.
I have lived in important places, times when great events were decided.
To know fully even one field or one land is a lifetime's experience. In the world of poetic experience it is depth that counts, not width.
Life is every where full of gods.
Age becomes no man, nor rank, neither riches; injustice lies in foul guilt alone.
The folly of men can ever be known in this, that they forget death, which cometh a-pace, and they remember not their latter end.
Life is elsewhere. Cross frontiers. Fly away.
The search for truth is in one way hard and in another way easy, for it is evident that no one can master it fully or miss it wholly.
I am in the world, like water in water.
The world is hypothetical, but I played.
The problems of the world are always a mind problem.
People— running about— wandering in the city of ellipses.