The purpose of life, after all, is to live it, to taste experience to the utmost, to reach out eagerly and without fear for newer and richer experience.
The proper function of man is to live, not to exist. I shall not waste my days in trying to prolong them. I shall use my time.
The problem in public life is learning to overcome terror; the problem in married life is learning to overcome boredom.[El problema de la vida pública es aprender a dominar el terror, el problema de la vida conyugal es aprender a dominar el tedio.]
The personal life deeply lived always expands into truths beyond itself.
The people who spend their lives avoiding being run over by buses had much better be run over and put safely out of the way. They’re no good.
The opposite of love is not hate, it’s indifference. The opposite of art is not ugliness, it’s indifference. The opposite of faith is not heresy, it’s indifference. And the opposite of life is not death, it’s indifference.
The only way to know life is by not ignoring life.
The only thing that must be pondered – and I realize this at the end of my life – is death. Mors est quies viatoris – finis est omnis laboris.[Trans.]Death is rest for the traveller – it is the end of all labor.
The only religious way to think of death is as part and parcel of life; to regard it, with the understanding and the emotions, as the the inviolable condition of life.
The only moral of this tale, or of any other, is that in real life, as opposed to fiction, nothing is what it seems…
The only life that is happy is the life that can renounce the amenities of the world. To it the amenities of the world are so many graces of fate.[Nur das Leben ist glücklich, welches auf die Annehmlichkeiten der Welt verzichten kann. Ihm sind die Annehmlichkeiten der Welt nur so viele Gnaden des Schicksals.]
The ocean has been singing to me, and the song is that of our life together…
