Horace Quotes

Life's what's important. Walking, houses, family. Birth and pain and joy - and then death.

All my life's about is cracking up people and them cracking me up and trying not to think about dying. That doesn't cost very much money.

All men have one entrance into life, and the like going out.

We must laugh before we are happy, for fear we die before we laugh at all.

We all know we're going to die one day, but who wants to think about it? What's sustainable is joy, pleasure and freedom.

I have accumulated no money but I accumulate a lot of happiness. If you get rich, you have an apartment with an extra bedroom - and then you die.

We have this desire for that balance between death and life or death and joy. We want to believe that something we can also have.

One must laugh before one is happy, or one may die without ever laughing at all.

Babies don't know who's rich and who's poor. You love 'em and they're happy.

There are but three events which concern man: birth, life and death. They are unconscious of their birth, they suffer when they die, and they neglect to live.

Outside of that single fatality of death, everything, joy or happiness, is liberty.

You smile upon your friend to-day, To-day his ills are over; You hearken to the lover's say, And happy is the lover. 'Tis late to hearken, late to smile, But better late than never: I shall have lived a little while Before I die for ever.

Every man that ever lived craved perfect happiness, the detective poignantly reflected. But how can we have it when we know we’re going to die? Each joy was clouded by the knowledge it would end. And so nature had implanted in us a desire for something unattainable? No. It couldn’t be. It makes no sense. Every other striving implanted by nature had a corresponding object that wasn’t a phantom. Why this exception? the detective reasoned. It was nature making hunger when there wasn’t any food. We continue. We go on. Thus death proved life.

Don't wait to be happy to laugh... You may die and never have laughed.

Perhaps this is what really happens in life to most good men. They are not crucified. They simply pass through life and then die, and their passing influences just a few people to make them just a little happy.

My idea of rich is that you can buy every book you ever want without looking at the price and you're never around assholes. That's the two things to really fight for in life.

I have known lots of millionaires who were not happy men; they had not got all they wanted and therefore had failed to find success in life. A Singalese proverb says: "He who is happy is rich, but it does not follow that he who is rich is happy." The really rich man is the man who has fewest wants.

Be happy now because tomorrow you are dying.

I shall live this day as if it is my last. And if it is not, I shall fall to my knees and give thanks.

How do I know that loving life is not a delusion? How do I know that in hating death I am not like a man who, having left home in his youth, has forgotten the way back?

We always say we are equal in front of death, but when you are rich, for example, and you have everybody taking care of you, I think that you suffer much less. It must be much more painful to die when you are poor than when you are rich. But when your heart is broken, you can be rich, poor, whatever - a broken heart, we are all equal in front of it. And I think there is no subject more serious.

whereas, up to the present, there is only one known way of getting born, there are endless ways of getting killed.

Life is fighting. In life, it's the look ahead that counts. We are all born equally far from the sun. There is a land of the living and a land of the dead and the bridge is love.

Is death that which gives meaning to life? And I said, no, life is that which gives meaning to life.