Living and lifetime Quotes

I am not the least afraid to die

Always first draw fresh breath after outbursts of vanity and complacency.

The history of mankind is the instant between two strides taken by a traveler

Anxiety is the dizziness of freedom

Life has its own hidden forces which you can only discover by living.

The more a man can forget, the greater the number of metamorphoses which his life can undergo, the more he can remember the more divine his life becomes

Repetition is the reality and the seriousness of life

There is nothing stable in the world; uproar's your only music

A proverb is no proverb to you until life has illustrated it

Mortality weighs heavily on me like unwilling sleep

Culture is the tacit agreement to let the means of subsistence disappear behind the purpose of existence. Civilization is the subordination of the latter to the former

A child learns to discard his ideals, whereas a grown-up never wears out his short pants.

When a culture feels that its end has come, it sends for a priest.

I'd like to grow very old as slowly as possible.

An hour-glass is a reminder not only of time's quick flight, but also of the dust to which we must at last return

What most clearly characterizes true freedom and its true employment is its misemployment

The dread of evil is a much more forcible principle of human actions than the prospect of good

Habits wear more constantly and with greatest force than reason, which, when we have most need of it, is seldom fairly consulted, and more rarely obeyed

A feeling of sadness and longing that is not akin to pain, and resembles sorrow only as the mist resembles the rain

Not enjoyment, and not sorrow is our destined way, but to act that each tomorrow may find us further than today