Amin Maalouf Quotes

You realize that however much you don't think about death - or think that's for other people - you're just an organism living from day to day. I'm just grateful I'm here.

Nobody lives forever and I've had a blessed life.

We don't ever realize how precious life is while we're living it.

A short life is better for mankind, for a long life would deprive man of his optimism.

Please, don't worry so much. Because in the end, none of us have very long on this Earth. Life is fleeting.

Seventy is wormwood, Seventy is gall But its better to be seventy, Than not alive at all.

I'm not afraid of death. What's to fear? Once you're dead, that's it. Nothing. I don't believe in heaven or hell. That's baloney. What matters is the here and now. Yes, I'm 88, and there are things I can't do: I can't run a race or climb Everest. But isn't life magnificent?

You've gotta know what death is to know life!

We need to appreciate how precious life is.

The tragedy of life is not that it ends so soon.

None of us can be sure of how long we will live. Because this is so, I think you should try not to think too much about dying but think about all the nice things that make life so precious to us all.

What makes us really human is it's in the presence of death that we start valuing life.

We all take life for granted, one way or another.

Believe me, I go and go, 'cause I know how short life is, and I know how very blessed all of us are to be here and how very short it is.

Nature has given man no better thing than shortness of life.

Time is for dragonflies and angels. The former live too little and the latter live too long.

Value our lives because we never know what day or what time itll be over, ... Rich, famous, whatever, it just makes you appreciate just seeing today.

Most long lives resemble those threads of gossamer, the nearest approach to nothing unmeaningly prolonged, scarce visible pathways of some worm from his cradle to his grave.

A man must have grown old and lived long in order to see how short life is.

I had gone through a near-death experience, and that gives you an insight into how fleeting life is, and what's important.

Believe me, if a man doesn't know death, he doesn't know life.

Don't fear your mortality, because it is this very mortality that gives meaning and depth and poignancy to all the days that will be granted to you.

I've been a long time coming, and I'll be a long time gone. You've got your whole life to do something, and that's not very long.

One should not confuse the craving for life with endorsement of it.