in Quotes & Aphorisms (Life)
That I exist is a perpetual surprise which is life.
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That I exist is a perpetual surprise which is life.
We must make of our own life like an art work is made. The life of an intellect man must a work of his. The true superiority is all here.
Unlike other diseases life is always mortal.
More than once have I been drunk, my passions are not far from delirium, and of these two things I do not feel sorry because I have learnt to understand that all extraordinary men that have done something great, and that seemed impossible to achieve, have been considered in every era to be drunks or mad. But, even in everyday life it is unbearable to hear say, every time that someone is about to do a free, noble and unexpected action "That man is drunk, he is mad!"
Be ashamed of yourselves, you sober and wise men!
The capacity to get free is nothing; the capacity to be free, that is the task.
When we are not worried about our own age means that we don't have true worries.
Our imagination is stretched to the utmost, not as in fiction, to imagine things which are not really there, but just to comprehend those things which are there.
The betrayed might be naive, but the traitor shall always remain infamous!
You can spend minutes, hours, days, weeks, or months over-analyzing a situation; trying to put the pieces together, justifying what could've, would've happened... or you can just leave the pieces on the floor and move the Bleep on.
When I was five years old, my mother would tell me that happiness is the key to life. When I went to school, they asked me what I wanted to be when I grew up. I wrote "happy". They told me that I hadn't understood the question, and I told them that they hadn't understood life.