Man, it seemed, had been created to jab the life out of Germans.
One is still what one is going to cease to be and already what one is going to become. One lives one's death, one dies one's life.
One always dies too soon or too late. And yet, life is there, finished: the line is drawn, and it must all be added up. You are nothing other than your life.
Life has no meaning the moment you loose the illusion of being eternal.
Life begins on the other side of despair.
The poor don't know that their function in life is to exercise our generosity.
All that I know about my life, it seems, I have learned in books.
May we agree that private life is irrelevant? Multiple, mixed, ambiguous at best - out of it we try to fashion the crystal clear, the singular, the absolute, and that is what is relevant; that is what matters.
You want to do something, you want to have the bravery to do something original. And there will always be people who are like, the classicists who are like, 'No, but it's got to have this.' In life, there are people like that attached to every single thing that there is. These are the same people that are like, still playing vinyl.
We cannot banish dangers, but we can banish fears. We must not demean life by standing in awe of death.
It was such a relief. I lived in fear of being found out. Now it's given me a whole new mission in life.
To know that once you decide to look at life outside of the narrow limits of just your world and start to understand that you can make a difference in very simple ways - in volunteering and all the way up to bigger world problems.
So I would hope they would develop some kind of habit that involves understanding that their life is so full they can afford to give in all kinds of ways to other people. I consider that to be baseline spirituality.
I try to live my life every day in the present, and try not to turn a blind eye to injustice and need.
Americans have discovered the fragility of life, that ominous fragility that the rest of the world either already experienced or is experiencing now with terrible intensity.