Raymond Queneau Quotes

On a cosmic scale, our life is insignificant, yet this brief period when we appear in the world is the time in which all meaningful questions arise.

We are all racing towards death. No matter how many great, intellectual conclusions we draw during our lives, we know they're all only man-made, like God. I begin to wonder where it all leads. What can you do, except do what you can do as best you know how.

Challenging the meaning of life is the truest expression of the state of being human.

How can we live and die and never know the difference?

You don't waste your entire life waiting to go back to dust.

Not to be born is, past all prizing, best.

The only thing that is real is the being in you that is going to die.

Everything has been figured out, except how to live.

I am really curious about life, about why we are all here. I notice my skin is ageing, things are changing, I've seen people dying, so that's the train we are all on.

We do not know what to do with this short life, yet we want another which will be eternal.

Regarding life, the wisest men of all ages have judged alike: it is worthless.

One believes that if nothing happens, one disappears. That is not true.

Heaven fashioned us of nothing; and we strive to bring ourselves to nothing.

If there is a meaning in life at all, then there must be a meaning in suffering. Suffering is an ineradicable part of life, even as fate and death. Without suffering and death, human life cannot be complete.

You must realize that one day you will die. Until then you are worthless.

What's the point of our life? Everything seems absurd until we die, and then it makes sense.

If we one day cease to exist, what will be remarkable is that we were ever here at all.

The continuous work of our life is to build death.

Life is short, and therefore, one thing being certain, death, let us take up a great ideal, and give up the whole life to it. For what is the value of life, this vegetating little low life of man? Subordinating it to one high ideal is the only value that life has.

We are an episode between two oblivions.

One day we'll all be dead, and none of this will matter" -The Brightest Star in the Sky.

Some old guy once said that the meaning of life is that it ends.

life's not a paragraph And death i think is no parenthesis