Allison Pearson Quotes

I have a rendezvous with life.

The worse thing in the world is for an individual to live, breath and exist and leave this earth, die, and not make impact.

I am only here on this earth for a short period of time, like the rest of the country and citizens, and I want the time that I spend here on earth to matter.

Death is not the enemy. A life lived without love is the enemy.

Quotes about Life Tell me not, in mournful numbers, Life is but an empty dream! For the soul is dead that slumbers, and things are not what they seem. Life is real! Life is earnest! And the grave is not its goal; Dust thou art; to dust returnest, Was not spoken of the soul.

I feel the only thing you can do about life is to preserve it, by art if you're an artist, by children if you're not.

Death focuses the mind on the things that really matter: why are we here, and what should we do?

If your life lease, your existence was canceled tomorrow, what would you wish you had done? What are the things you would like to impact? Start on those and you can change the world. Maybe you can only make your neighborhood a little bit better, or make someone's life a little bit better. Isn't that the kind of purpose?

We spend our lives talking about this mystery. Our life.

If I have no children what would be the point of living.

Religion enables us to ignore nothingness and get on with the jobs of life.

I think at the prospect of bringing children into the world, your mortality comes very much to the forefront, absolutely.

I carry on singing because I love it. The closer you are to the end, the more you understand how important it is.

Why should I ask the wise men: Whence is my beginning? I am busy with the thought: Where will be my end?

Our business is with life, not death.

Children are the only form of immortality that we can be sure of.

Maybe I am looking for the reason why I exist.

Without a function, we cease to be. So, I will write till I die.

The bottom line is: We must be working on arriving at the destination for which we were put on this planet.

All of us want to live, and that is absolutely natural. However, we should learn from childhood on to choose our best way to die. If we don't do that, we end up spending our days like a dog, only in search of harbour, food and expressing a blind loyalty to his owner in return. That isn't enough to make our lives have a meaning.

Who cares about great marks left behind? We have one life... just one. Our life. We have nothing else.

It is only in the light of the inescapable fact of death that a person can adequately engage and enter upon the mysterious fact of life.

If a man has not discovered something that he will die for, he isn't fit to live.

We look for meaning and purpose; children bring that.

I don't know why I'm alive but I know there's a reason for it.