Merrill Markoe Quotes

I think from my experience in war and life and science, it all has made me believe that we have one life on this planet.

I suppose the longer anyone spends on earth, the closer we all get to becoming superfluous characters.

Until today, you may not have realized that your life provides the content of your obituary. Just for today, examine your life. Think about all of the things you want to leave behind. Remember, the good thing about doing this today is that you still have time to rewrite your life's content if necessary.

The task I've been given seems absurd: To wait here on earth until I no longer exist.

What on earth can you do on this earth but catch at whatever comes near you, with both your fingers, until your fingers are broken?

Think of these things, whence you came, where you are going, and to whom you must account.

I have to live my life, and it is the only one I’ll ever have.

What is bad? What is good? What should one love, what hate? Why live, and what am I? What is lie,what is death? What power rules over everything?" he asked himself. And there was no answer to any of these questions except one, which was not logical and was not at all an answer to these questions. This answer was: "You will die--and everything will end. You will die and learn everything--or stop asking.

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

What you have to decide... is how you want your life to be. If your forever was ending tomorrow, would this be how you'd want to have spent it? Listen, the truth is, nothing is guaranteed. You know that more than anybody. So dont be afraid. Be alive.

Jean Paul Sartre says in "No Exit" that hell is other people. Well, our task in life is to make it heaven. Or at least earth.

But I knew that someday I was going to die. And just before I died two things would happen; Number 1: I would regret my entire life. Number 2: I would want to live my life over again.

People's whole lives do pass in front of their eye before they die. The process is called "Living".

It is admirable to consider how many millions of people come into, and go out of the world, ignorant of themselves and of the world they have lived in.

O poor mortals, how ye make this earth bitter for each other.

Living is death; dying is life. We are not what we appear to be. On this side of the grave we are exiles, on that citizens; on this side orphans, on that children.

You spend your entire life becoming God and then you die.

Our fate is something which exists outside ourselves, and which once revealed expresses the meaning of our lives. Apart, however, from soothsayers who claim to have a means of foretelling exactly what will befall us, this kind of fate is only normally revealed after a life has ended. Only then can the meaning of that life be understood.

A lot of people should realize they aren't on this earth for long and if you want to do anything you better hurry.

You do become more aware of your mortality as you get older. When you're little, you jump on any wild horse. Then you get a little bit older and realize how fragile life is, and you're more careful.

Make every decision based on your last years of life instead of your next 10.

Life’s not a video game, Felix- there aren’t a certain number of points that send you to the next level. There isn’t actually any next level. The bad news is that everybody dies at the end. Game Over.

I do not intend to spare myself, not to avoid emotions or difficulties. I don't care much whether I live a longer or shorter time... the world concerns me only in so far as I feel a certain debt toward it, because I have walked on this earth for thirty years, and out of gratitude I want to leave some souvenir.

Purpose! Purposes are for animals with a hell of a lot more dignity than the human race! Just hop on that strange torpedo and ride it to wherever it's going.