Greg Graffin Quotes

I have a rendezvous with life.

See, I have set before you this day life and good, death and evil... I have set before you life and death, blessing and curse; therefore choose life.

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

I have set before you life and death, blessing and curse; therefore choose life, that you and your offspring may live.

There is a very beautiful expression in the Hebrew language that's borrowed from spoken Torah... 'All is predicted, and permission is given at any point to change anything.' I think I live by this idiom in the sense that there is always a goal; there is always something to look forward to in life and my creative search, and that goal is there.

I don't know if I was put on this Earth for a purpose or not. But I'm fairly confident that I'll be taken off of it for one.

It is in the middle that human choices are made; the beginning and the end remain with God. The decrees of God are birth and death, and in between those limits man makes his own distress or joy.

Certainly. My whole life has been decided by fate. I think something more powerful than we are decides our fates for us. I know one thing – I've never planned anything that ever happened to me.

I embarked on my life - I didn't do anything. I don't have an explanation.

I don't think things happen for a reason, but I think it's perfectly possible to experience life meaningfully.

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

When it's your time, it is your time.

I feel like everything I ever did in my life led me to the Franklin Mint.

What do I know of man's destiny? I could tell you more about radishes.

I feel birth, death, marriage is destined, and these things can't be manipulated. I have surrendered my life completely. So, whenever it happens, I will accept it.

Life and death matters, yes. And the question of how to behave in this world, how to go in the face of everything. Time is short and the water is rising.

The difference between art about death and actual death is that one's a celebration and the other's a dull fact.

'Hamlet' is one of the most dangerous things ever set down on paper. All the big, unknowable questions like what it is to be a human being; the difference between sanity and insanity; the meaning of life and death; what's real and not real. All these subjects can literally drive you mad.

And when man faces destiny, destiny ends and man comes into his own.

Nothing is a matter of life and death except life and death.

To be or not to be. That's not really a question.

There is no means of proving it is preferable to be than not to be.

I was blessed with a birth and a death, and I guess I just want some say in between.

Life's most important questions are, for the most part, nothing but probability problems.