Quotes to inspire and reflect

Do not be too moral. You may cheat yourself out of much life so. Aim above morality. Be not simply good, be good for something.

If your morals make you dreary, depend on it, they are wrong.

Compassion is the basis of morality.

Scandal is gossip made tedious by morality.

The higher the buildings, the lower the morals.

Morality, like art, means drawing a line someplace.

Learn to distinguish the difference between errors of knowledge and breaches of morality.

The books that the world calls immoral are books that show the world its own shame.

Force and mind are opposites; morality ends where a gun begins.

To set up as a standard of public morality a notion which can neither be defined nor conceived is to open the door to every kind of tyranny.

The people who are regarded as moral luminaries are those who forego ordinary pleasures themselves and find compensation in interfering with the pleasures of others.

I say that a man must be certain of his morality for the simple reason that he has to suffer for it.

Morality is the weakness of the brain.

Too cheerful a morality is a loose morality; it is appropriate only to decadent peoples and is found only among them.

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

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

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

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

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.

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.

All men are cremated equal.

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

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

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

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.

A person starts dying when they stop dreaming.

Leisure without literature is death and burial alive.

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.

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

Death takes no bribes.

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.

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

Contraceptives should be used on every conceivable occasion.

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

Prejudices are what fools use for reason.

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

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.

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.

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

Wealth is the ability to fully experience life.

The true object of all human life is play.

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

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