Life and Existence

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.

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.

A person starts dying when they stop dreaming.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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

Leisure without literature is death and burial alive.

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.

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

Death takes no bribes.

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.

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

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

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.

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.