Quotes about life: Best quotations
- The important thing is somehow to begin. Everything grows out of those first few scratches.
— Henry Moore, quoted in
The Ultimate Seduction, by Charlotte Chandler
- You have to be willing to waste some effort. If you want to see a great bullfight, you have to go to all the bullfights.
— Pablo Picasso, quoted in
The Ultimate Seduction, by Charlotte Chandler
- Mythology may, in a real sense, be defined as other people’s religion. And religion may, in a sense, be understood as a popular misunderstanding of mythology.
— Joseph Campbell, Thou Art That:
Transforming Religious Metaphor
- Take the risks and you’ll get the payoffs. Learn from your mistakes until you succeed. It’s that simple.
— attributed to chef Bobby Flay
- The axis today is not liberal and conservative, the axis is conservative-destructive, and you’ve cast your lot with the destructive people.
— Steve Jobs to Rupert Murdoch
in Steve Jobs, by Walter Isaacson
- Be kind; everyone you meet is fighting a hard battle.
— paraphrasing Rev. John Watson
(a.k.a Ian MacLaren)
- DAVID LETTERMAN: From your perspective now, do you know something about life and death that maybe I don’t know?
WARREN ZEVON: Not unless I know how much — how much you’re supposed to enjoy every sandwich.
— Warren Zevon, discussing his
terminal cancer during his
last appearance on the
Late Show with David Letterman
- Death is the only wise adviser that we have. Whenever you feel, as you always do, that everything is going wrong and you’re about to be annihilated, turn to your death and ask if that is so. Your death will tell you that you’re wrong; that nothing really matters outside its touch. Your death will tell you, “I haven’t touched you yet.”
— Don Juan Matus to Carlos Castaneda in
Journey to Ixtlan: The Lessons of Don Juan
