Johann Wolfgang von Goethe Quotes

Everybody dies but not everybody lives.

But a living is not a life.

We are not born to survive. Only to live.

I don't believe people are looking for the meaning of life as much as they are looking for the experience of being alive.

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.

For me, it is OK as long as I can breathe, as long as my heart is pumping, as long as I can express myself.

The choice is yours: Do you want to exist, or do you want to live?

Life is a prize, but to live doesn't mean you're alive

Purpose provides activation energy for living.

The greatest tragedy in life is not to die, it is to live as if dead, to let the life within us wither. Toward what goal or achievement are we striving in life? This is the important question to ask ourselves.

Even in the worst time of life, if you are still breathing, that means you are still alive. If you are still here, you haven't accomplished what is still to be accomplished. The most important part of your life is still ahead of you.

Everybody dies. What matters is what you do between now and when it happens to you.

Life defined only as the opposite of death is not life.

There is a great deal of difference between living and surviving. You can survive in debauchery, even in sickness and despair. But you live with a spirit of vitality and a spirit of participation, of being wanted, and having something to contribute.

What is the purpose of life? What is the primary objective of life? To live. To sustain itself.

Just breathing isn't living!

I live, which is the main point.

Here is the vicious circle: if you feel separate from your organic life, you feel driven to survive; survival -going on living- thus becomes a duty and also a drag because you are not fully with it; because it does not quite come up to expectations, you continue to hope that it will, to crave for more time, to feel driven all the more to go on.

Just because you're breathing, doesn't mean you're alive.

I don’t care how old I live! I just want to be living while I am living!

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

Life is everything, and you haven't lived it properly until you believe.

Life is not measured by the time we live.

You're not living until it doesn't matter a tinker's damn to you whether you live or die. At that point you live. When you're ready to lose your life, you live it.

What's the point of prolonging your life if you don't enjoy it? It's your body. Do whatever you want with it. Better to wear out than rust over.