Stephen Merchant Quotes

I finally did not understand if we are living to survive or we are living to die!

One must either take an interest in the human situation or else parade before the void.

What's the point of our life? Everything seems absurd until we die, and then it makes sense.

it seems a silly kind o' business to bring us into the world at all for no special reason 'cept to take us out of it again just as folks 'ave learned to know us a bit and find us useful.

...the reason for living was to get ready to stay dead a long time.

Although it is a gloomy view to suppose that life will die out, sometimes when I contemplate the things that people do with their lives I think it is almost a consolation

Life belongs to man, but the meaning of life is beyond him.

As death, when we come to consider it closely, is the true goal of our existence . . .

It is worth while dying, to find out what life is.

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?

There are only three events in a man's life; birth, life, and death; he is not conscious of being born, he dies in pain, and he forgets to live.

Judging whether life is or is not worth living amounts to answering the fundamental question of philosophy.

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

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

The meaning of life is life.

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

There is only one meaning of life: the act of living itself.

Get busy living, or get busy dying.

We were born and we die. In between, I think we try to live as best we can.

One life is worth the universe. Poe was able to go right into the very depth of life and to demonstrate this.

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.

Everything has been figured out, except how to live.

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

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

Regarding life, the wisest men of all ages have judged alike: it is worthless.