Jim Butcher Quotes

There is a point. I don't know what it is, but everything I've had, and everything I've lost, and everything I felt-it meant something. Maybe there isn't a meaning to life. Maybe there's only a meaning to living. That's what I've learned. That's what I'm going to be doing from now on. Living. And loving, as sappy as it sounds

Whether by a Mack truck or by heart failure or faulty lungs, death happens. But life isn't really just about avoiding death, is it? It's about living.

How can they say my life is not a success? Have I not for more than sixty years got enough to eat and escaped being eaten?

Everybody dies but not everybody lives.

You can’t beat death but you can beat death in life, sometimes. and the more often you learn to do it, the more light there will be. your life is your life. know it while you have it.

Oscar Wilde once said that to live is the rarest thing in the world, because most people just exist, and that's all. I don't know if he's right, but I do know that I spend a long time existing, and now, I intend to live.

There's more to life than just surviving . . . but . . . sometimes just surviving is all you get

The real question is not whether life exists after death. The real question is whether you are alive before death.

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

The proper function of man is to live, not to exist. I shall not waste my days in trying to prolong them. I shall use my time.

I have no fear of death. More important, I don't fear life.

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.

There is nothing in the world, I venture to say, that would so effectively help one to survive even the worst conditions as the knowledge that there is a meaning in one's life.

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

Survival is important, art is secondary. If you aren't alive, how can you create art?

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

some men never die and some men never live but we're all alive tonight.

I don't know how one should live - but I know that one should live.

The mystery of human existence lies not in just staying alive, but in finding something to live for.

Merely to exist is not enough.

Life is never made unbearable by circumstances, but only by lack of meaning and purpose.

Do not breathe simply to exist.

Here we are, alive, and you and I will have to make it what we can.

Everybody dies … The thing is, to have a life before we die.

As for you, you are alive. But it's not the same as living.