Famous Quotes

"There will come a time when all of us are dead. All of us. There will come a time when there are no human beings remaining to remember that anyone ever existed or that our species ever did anything. There will be no one left to remember Aristotle or Cleopatra, let alone you. Everything that we did and built and wrote and thought and discovered will be forgotten and all of this will have been for naught. Maybe that time is coming soon and maybe it is millions of years away, but even if we survive the collapse of our sun, we will not survive forever. There was time before organisms experienced consciousness, and there will be time after. And if the inevitability of human oblivion worries you, I encourage you to ignore it. God knows that’s what everyone else does."

"These woods are lovely, dark and deep,But I have promises to keep,And miles to go before I sleep,And miles to go before I sleep."

"May you live every day of your life."

"To love. To be loved. To never forget your own insignificance. To never get used to the unspeakable violence and the vulgar disparity of life around you. To seek joy in the saddest places. To pursue beauty to its lair. To never simplify what is complicated or complicate what is simple. To respect strength, never power. Above all, to watch. To try and understand. To never look away. And never, never to forget."

"If the world were merely seductive, that would be easy. If it were merely challenging, that would be no problem. But I arise in the morning torn between a desire to improve the world and a desire to enjoy the world. This makes it hard to plan the day."

"I wanted a perfect ending. Now I've learned, the hard way, that some poems don't rhyme, and some stories don't have a clear beginning, middle, and end. Life is about not knowing, having to change, taking the moment and making the best of it, without knowing what's going to happen next.Delicious Ambiguity."

"Never doubt that a small group of thoughtful, committed, citizens can change the world. Indeed, it is the only thing that ever has."

"Do not read, as children do, to amuse yourself, or like the ambitious, for the purpose of instruction. No, read in order to live."

"You cannot find peace by avoiding life."

"Death ends a life, not a relationship."

"Sometimes I can hear my bones straining under the weight of all the lives I'm not living."

"This life’s hard, but it’s harder if you’re stupid."

"All God does is watch us and kill us when we get boring. We must never, ever be boring."

"The saddest aspect of life right now is that science gathers knowledge faster than society gathers wisdom."

"If you don't know where you're going, any road'll take you there"

"We're all human, aren't we? Every human life is worth the same, and worth saving."

"How wonderful it is that nobody need wait a single moment before starting to improve the world."

"I speak to everyone in the same way, whether he is the garbage man or the president of the university."

"I can never read all the books I want; I can never be all the people I want and live all the lives I want. I can never train myself in all the skills I want. And why do I want? I want to live and feel all the shades, tones and variations of mental and physical experience possible in my life. And I am horribly limited."

"The fear of death follows from the fear of life. A man who lives fully is prepared to die at any time."

"But better to get hurt by the truth than comforted with a lie."

"I'm the one that's got to die when it's time for me to die, so let me live my life the way I want to."