Alfred Adler Quotes

Time is a great conference planning our end, and youth is only the past putting a leg forward.

Immortality. I notice that as soon as writers broach this question they begin to quote. I hate quotation. Tell me what you know.

To himself everyone is immortal; he may know that he is going to die, but he can never know that he is dead.

What I'm exploring right now is the subject of my own mortality. It's an area that I'm curious about, and I'm researching it to see if there's a photographic essay in it for me. If images don't start to come, I'll go to something else.

We are only tenants, and shortly the great Landlord will give us notice that our lease has expired.

The disembodied spirit is immortal; there is nothing of it that can grow old or die. But the embodied spirit sees death on the horizon as soon as its day dawns.

To be immortal is commonplace; except for man, all creatures are immortal, for they are ignorant of death; what is divine, terrible, incomprehensible, is to know that one is immortal.

Death is the mother of Beauty; hence from her, alone, shall come fulfillment to our dreams and our desires.

I always love working with young actors, because there's always something to learn. It's always exciting to see the next generation and how they approach things and what's great about them and what's not so great about them.

I adore life but I don't fear death. I just prefer to die as late as possible.

Art has two constant, two unending concerns: It always meditates on death and thus always creates life. All great, genuine art resembles and continues the Revelation of St John.

There are few things more fundamentally encouraging and stimulating than seeing someone else die.

For those who seek to understand it, death is a highly creative force. The highest spiritual values of life can originate from the thought and study of death.

Mortality applies to every aspect of life. The fear of death is the driving fear of life.

She had been dying so long that I had almost come to regard her as immortal.

Probably I chose immortality because mortality is a universal human obsession.

I don't have a fear of aging or a fear of death.

It is old age, rather than death, that is to be contrasted with life. Old age is life's parody, whereas death transforms life into a destiny: in a way it preserves it by giving it the absolute dimension. Death does away with time.

We die daily. Happy those who daily come to life as well.

To the well-organized mind, death is but the next great adventure.

I don't believe in dying. It's been done. I'm working on a new exit. Besides, I can't die now - I'm booked.

I always think that good writers should be growing up on the brink of death - it really lets them see mortality very clearly.

Death is not extinguishing the light; it is only putting out the lamp because the dawn has come.

All my inspiration comes from life. That's how it never stops, in a way.

I don't want to achieve immortality through my work. I want to achieve it through not dying.