Freddie Mercury Quotes

I do not cling to life sufficiently to fear death.

It was good, it was bad. But it was real, and that's all you have.

I am as I am. The world is as it is. Whether I am content with that has very little to do with it.

Maybe the only thing I can definitely say about is this: That’s life. Maybe the only thing we can do is accept it, without really knowing what’s going on.

I'm simply an accident. Why take it all so seriously?

If it is, it is, If it's not, it's not.

My philosophy is it's none of my business what people say of me and think of me. I am what I am, and I do what I do. I expect nothing and accept everything. And it makes life so much easier.

For if there is a sin against life, it consists perhaps not so much in despairing of life as in hoping for another life and in eluding the implacable grandeur of this life.

One day it will be over, and I don't care.

I don't look forward to anything. I take things as they come.

Life just keeps unfolding, ignoring our praise or blame.

If we never arrived anywhere, it did not matter. Between that earth and that sky i felt erased, blotted out. I did not say my prayers that night: here, i felt what would be would be.

We didn't make the world. All we have to do is live in it.

The difference between me and you is... that I don't mind what happens.

Vex not thy spirit at the course of things; they heed not thy vexation. How ludicrous and outlandish is astonishment at anything that may happen in life.

I opened myself to the gentle indifference of the world.

I believe that life is a game, that life is a cruel joke, and that life is what happens when you're alive and that you might as well lie back and enjoy it.

Perhaps I'm old and tired, but I always think that the chances of finding out what really is going on are so absurdly remote that the only thing to do is to say hang the sense of it and just keep yourself occupied.

In the world everything is as it is and happens as it does happen. In it, there is no value, - and if there were, it would be of no value.

To be bitter is to attribute intent and personality to the formless, infinite, unchanging and unchangeable void. We drift on a chartless, resistless sea. Let us sing when we can, and forget the rest.

The world is what it is, no less and no more, and therein lies its entire and sufficient meaning.

"Well, it's no use your talking about waking him," said Tweedledum, "when you're only one of the things in his dream. You know very well you're not real."

Man is not in the world to set it right, but to see it rightly.

Expect nothing. Today: that is your life.

Since the insignificance of all things is our lot, we should not bear it as an affliction but learn to enjoy it.