Lajos Egri Quotes

You may look back on your life and accept it as good or evil. But it is far, far harder to admit that you have been completely unimportant; that in the great sum of things, all a man's endless grapplings are no more significant than the scuttlings of a cockroach.

We are all born to die—the difference is the intensity with which we choose to live.

We never can tell how our lives may work to the account of the general good, and we are not wise enough to know if we have fulfilled our mission or not.

Everyone needs reminders that the fact of their being on this earth is important and that each life changes everything.

Why have I had this life? If I knew, I wouldn't have done it.

For the meaning of life differs from man to man, from day to day and from hour to hour. What matters, therefore, is not the meaning of life in general but rather the specific meaning of a person's life at a given moment.

Ultimately, man should not ask what the meaning of his life is, but rather he must recognize that it is he who is asked.

There is in each of us a stream of tendency, whether you choose to call it philosophy or not, which gives coherence and direction to thought and action. Judges cannot escape that current any more than other mortals.

In whatever form it takes, life sings because it has a song. The meaning is in the lyrics.

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.

To live is to choose. But to choose well, you must know who you are and what you stand for, where you want to go and why you want to get there.

All we have to decide is what to do with the time that is given us.

If you have only one life, you can't altogether ignore the question: are you enjoying it?

Without knowing what I am and why I am here, life is impossible.

I act as if my life depends on each decision. Because it does.

It is just living life intentionally - that is what I want instead of just existing.

I feel like I'm not on Earth just to shake it and shake it endlessly, you know?

I don't do anything just for the sake of it. I don't live my life for the sake of it.

It is what we do with our lives that counts.

You remember our talk about purpose and meaning?" he asked me, the smile disappearing. "Well, I think this might be mine. I think this is what I was meant to do, Georgina.

Man positively needs general ideas and convictions that will give a meaning to his life and enable him to find a place for himself in the universe.

It's hard sometimes to remember why we do anything in the first place. It's nice to think there's a purpose, or even a real decision that turns everything in one direction, but that's not always true, is it? We just fall into our lives.

A real life, a life that leaves a deposit in the shape of something alive.... It's difficult to say what makes a life a real life.... You could also say it depends on a person being identical with himself.

Some are created to love, while the others - to live.

It is by his activities and not by enjoyment that man feels he is alive. In idleness we not only feel that life is fleeting, but we also feel lifeless.