Quotes to inspire and reflect

The purpose of morality is to teach you, not to suffer and die, but to enjoy yourself and live.

Morality is the weakness of the brain.

I have to live for others and not for myself; that's middle class morality.

Morality is the custom of one’s country and the current feeling of one’s peers. Cannibalism is moral in a cannibal country.

If one should desire to know whether a kingdom is well governed, if its morals are good or bad, the quality of its music will furnish the answer.

Morality consists in suspecting other people of not being legally married.

Morality is a venereal disease. Its primary stage is called virtue; its secondary stage, boredom; its tertiary stage, syphilis.

The most important human endeavor is the striving for morality in our actions. Our inner balance and even our very existence depend on it. Only morality in our actions can give beauty and dignity to life.

The fear of death is the most unjustified of all fears, for there's no risk of accident for someone who's dead.

All men are cremated equal.

A person starts dying when they stop dreaming.

Anyone who has ever looked into the glazed eyes of a soldier dying on the battlefield will think hard before starting a war.

Our death is not an end if we can live on in our children and the younger generation. For they are us, our bodies are only wilted leaves on the tree of life.

What you possess in the world will be found at the day of your death to belong to someone else. But what you are will be yours forever.

Leisure without literature is death and burial alive.

Art is the tree of life. Science is the tree of death. God is Jesus.

Absence and death are the same - only that in death there is no suffering.

It is necessary to have wished for death in order to know how good it is to live.

Death takes no bribes.

Death is one moment, and life is so many of them.

Death is nothing, but to live defeated and inglorious is to die daily.

Death must be so beautiful. To lie in the soft brown earth, with the grasses waving above one's head, and listen to silence. To have no yesterday, and no to-morrow. To forget time, to forgive life, to be at peace.

Imagination is everything. It is the preview of life's coming attractions.

Life doesn't imitate art, it imitates bad television.

Prejudices are what fools use for reason.

Contraceptives should be used on every conceivable occasion.

He can who thinks he can, and he can't who thinks he can't. This is an inexorable, indisputable law.

The price of anything is the amount of life you exchange for it.

Life is never fair, and perhaps it is a good thing for most of us that it is not.

Life is thickly sown with thorns, and I know no other remedy than to pass quickly through them. The longer we dwell on our misfortunes, the greater is their power to harm us.

Wealth is the ability to fully experience life.

You have enemies? Good. That means you've stood up for something, sometime in your life.

The paradox of courage is that a man must be a little careless of his life even in order to keep it.

The true object of all human life is play.

It's easy to let life deteriorate into making a living instead of making a life.

Life is like an onion: you peel it off one layer at a time, and sometimes you weep.

Do you believe in immortality? No, and one life is enough for me.

The major value in life is not what you get. The major value in life is what you become.

How much of human life is lost in waiting.

What a wonderful life I've had! I only wish I'd realized it sooner.

The soul is born old but grows young. That is the comedy of life. And the body is born young and grows old. That is life's tragedy.

The greatest happiness of life is the conviction that we are loved - loved for ourselves, or rather, loved in spite of ourselves.

Your life does not get better by chance, it gets better by change.

I believe you should live each day as if it is your last, which is why I don't have any clean laundry, because, come on, who wants to wash clothes on the last day of their life?

When I look back on all these worries, I remember the story of the old man who said on his deathbed that he had had a lot of trouble in his life, most of which had never happened.

To live in this world, you must be able to do three things: to love what is mortal; to hold it against your bones knowing your own life depends on it; and, when the time comes to let it go, to let it go.

Life is too important to be taken seriously.

If you believed more in life you would fling yourself less to the moment.