Freddie Stroma Quotes

In a lot of areas of my life, particularly in my teenage years, I began to think about the world, and to think about the universe as being a part of my conscious everyday life.

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

Life is here only to be lived so that we can, through life, earn the right to death, which to me is paradise. Whatever it is that will bring me the reward of paradise, I'll do the best I can.

I am not a depressive person at all, but I reflect a lot on my life, and life in general, from the perspective of death.

To be, or not to be, that is the question.

Death is more important than life. Life is just the trivial, just the superficial; death is deeper. Through death you grow to the real life, and through life you only reach death and nothing else.

There is but one truly serious philosophical problem and that is suicide.

Ten out of ten people die. You start thinking about that and it really makes you start to ask the big questions: Where did I come from? Where am I going when I die? What happens when we step out of here? What's out there?

I, at the age of 17 or 18 as a medical student, suddenly came up against a problem: 'What am I? What is the meaning of my existence as I experience it?'

I've been running from, and toward, death all my life, more aware of it than a person should be.

I think of myself as being a relatively intelligent man who is open to a lot of different things and I think that questioning our purpose in life and the meaning of existence is something that we all go through at some point.

I still live, I still think: I still have to live, for I still have to think.

My children have gone to Catholic school... Part of their whole education is talking about the inner life and looking at your life, even though you're only 15 or 16 - thinking about your mortality, thinking about the value of your life, thinking about your obligations.

If we don't know life, how can we know death?

The modern meaning of life's end-when does it end? How does it end? How should it end? What is the value of life? How do we measure it?

The meaning of life is not to be discovered only after death in some hidden, mysterious realm; on the contrary, it can be found by eating the succulent fruit of the Tree of Life and by living in the here and now as fully and creatively as we can.

Each man must look to himself to teach him the meaning of life. It is not something discovered: it is something molded.

If we ignore our death, we end up just going around completely oblivious to why we do the things we do!

Contemplation of life after retirement and life after death can help you deal with contemporary challenges.

I saw that philosophy had no power to make my life more bearable. Thus I lost my belief in philosophy.

The unexamined life is not worth living.

I was reared a Catholic but I think every day we ask ourselves, not consciously, what are we doing on this planet? What's it all about?

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

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

You're taught from the day you start medical school that you're a god, that you can have power over life and death. So when your life starts to crumble, and the highest power you see is looking back in the mirror - and you know that power is flawed - it is very hard to get past that.