Life Quotes

He who has a why to live for can bear almost any how.

Without music, life would be a mistake.

There are people who want to make men's lives more difficult for no other reason than the chance it provides them afterwards to offer their prescription for alleviating life; their Christianity, for instance.

It is true: we love life, not because we are used to living, but because we are used to loving.

We should consider every day lost on which we have not danced at least once. And we should call every truth false which was not accompanied by at least one laugh.

Sit as little as possible; give no credence to any thought that was not born outdoors while one moved about freely - in which the muscles are not celebrating a feast, too: all prejudices come from the intestines. The sedentary life - as I have said once before - is the real sin against the holy spirit.

Art is the proper task of life.

To forget one's purpose is the commonest form of stupidity.

Let us be careful, lest out of pure honesty we eventually become saints and bores! Is not life a hundred times too short for us-to bore ourselves?

It is always consoling to think of suicide: in that way one gets through many a bad night.

The great epochs of our life are the occasions when we gain the courage to rebaptize our evil qualities as our best qualities.

Let us beware of saying that death is the opposite of life. The living being is only a species of the dead, and a very rare species.

The wisest men in every age have reached the same conclusion about life: it's no good ... What does this prove? What does it demonstrate? ... Perhaps wisdom appears on earth as a raven, inspired by a little scent of carrion?

Judgments, value judgments concerning life, for or against, can in the last resort never be true: they possess value only as symptoms, they come into consideration only as symptoms - in themselves such judgments are stupidities.

I still live, I still think: I still have to live, for I still have to think.

The lie is a condition of life.

Enjoy life. This is not a dress rehearsal.

Nobody can build the bridge for you to walk across the river of life, no one but you yourself alone. There are, to be sure, countless paths and bridges and demi-gods which would carry you across this river; but only at the cost of yourself; you would pawn yourself and lose. There is in the world only one way, on which nobody can go, except you: where does it lead? Do not ask, go along with it.

Death is close enough at hand so we do not need to be afraid of life.

People are always angry at anyone who chooses very individual standards for his life; because of the extraordinary treatment which that man grants to himself, they feel degraded, like ordinary beings.