Czeslaw Milosz Quotes

There are so many moments to remember and sometimes I think that maybe we're not really people at all. Maybe moments are what we are.... Sometimes I just survive. But sometimes I stand on the rooftop of my existence, arms stretched out, begging for more.

Maybe I am looking for the reason why I exist.

The fact we exist merely means we exist. That's all it means.

'Do I have a purpose.' Right. And of course you do. Otherwise, you wouldn't be on Earth. I really strongly believe that if we're here, it's for a reason.

Not everyone has a Life's Work. Some people simply have a Life.

The mystery of human existence lies not in just staying alive, but in finding something to live for.

It takes a well-spent lifetime, and perhaps more, to crystalize in us that for which we exist.

Happiness is a hound dog in the sun. We aren't on Earth to be happy, but to experience incredible things. - Hannah Schneider

Things you did. Things you never did. Things you dreamed. After a long time they run together.

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

I have to have a meaning in my life. If I roam around without some meaning in my life, I'm in deep and serious trouble. I can't, I just can't exist.

The meaning of life is to get meaning for life.

I knew that I had to write my memoirs.

I have a rendezvous with life.

There is no wealth but life.

My trade and art is to live.

Life: my favorite occupation.

What does legacy mean? I never think or go there.

Work is the only meanin' I've ever known.

Work gives you meaning and purpose and life is empty without it.

When I was younger, I was looking for this magic meaning of life.

Life itself is a quotation.

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

The thing that is incredible is life itself. Why should we be here in this sun-illuminated universe? Why should there be green earth under our feet?

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