Quotes on Life

If I should ever die, God forbid, let this be my epitaph: THE ONLY PROOF HE NEEDED FOR THE EXISTENCE OF GOD WAS MUSIC

Sometimes you wake up. Sometimes the fall kills you. And sometimes, when you fall, you fly.

Is it so bad, then, to be misunderstood? Pythagoras was misunderstood, and Socrates, and Jesus, and Luther, and Copernicus, and Galileo, and Newton, and every pure and wise spirit that ever took flesh. To be great is to be misunderstood.

A purpose of human life, no matter who is controlling it, is to love whoever is around to be loved.

I stopped believing there was a power of good and a power of evil that were outside us. And I came to believe that good and evil are names for what people do, not for what they are.

I like too many things and get all confused and hung-up running from one falling star to another till i drop. This is the night, what it does to you. I had nothing to offer anybody except my own confusion.

To live is the rarest thing in the world. Most people exist, that is all.

Ah, love, let us be true To one another! for the world, which seems To lie before us like a land of dreams, So various, so beautiful, so new, Hath really neither joy, nor love, nor light, Nor certitude, nor peace, nor help for pain; And we are here as on a darkling plain Swept with confused alarms of struggle and flight, Where ignorant armies clash by night.

The cure for boredom is curiosity. There is no cure for curiosity.

My experience of life is that it is not divided up into genres; it’s a horrifying, romantic, tragic, comical, science-fiction cowboy detective novel. You know, with a bit of pornography if you're lucky.

A painter should begin every canvas with a wash of black, because all things in nature are dark except where exposed by the light.

A house without books is like a room without windows.

Life is a compromise of what your ego wants to do, what experience tells you to do, and what your nerves let you do.

Anyone who lives within their means suffers from a lack of imagination.

We are the miracle of force and matter making itself over into imagination and will. Incredible. The Life Force experimenting with forms. You for one. Me for another. The Universe has shouted itself alive. We are one of the shouts.

The best scientist is open to experience and begins with romance - the idea that anything is possible.

Stuff your eyes with wonder, live as if you'd drop dead in ten seconds. See the world. It's more fantastic than any dream made or paid for in factories.

Only the person who has experienced light and darkness, war and peace, rise and fall, only that person has truly experienced life.

Losing an illusion makes you wiser than finding a truth.

I was lucky to come from a difficult area. It teaches you not just about football but also life. There were lots of kids from different races and poor families. People had to struggle to get through the day.

I don't care who you love. If you love this country enough to risk your life for it, you shouldn't have to hide who you are.