Jean-Jacques Rousseau Quotes

It always seems to me that so few people live - they just seem to exist and I don't see any reason why we shouldn't live always - til we die physically.

I have come to know that it [death] is an important thing to keep in mind - not to complain or to make melancholy, but simply because only with the honest knowledge that one day I will die I can ever truly begin to live.

Let's learn to live, for we must die alone.

After you're dead [...] it's not gonna matter if you have a few scars. It will matter if you didn't live.

Ah! realize your youth while you have it. Don’t squander the gold of your days, listening to the tedious, trying to improve the hopeless failure, or giving away your life to the ignorant, the common, and the vulgar. These are the sickly aims, the false ideals, of our age. Live! Live the wonderful life that is in you! Let nothing be lost upon you. Be always searching for new sensations. Be afraid of nothing.

I'd rather die while I'm living then live while I'm dead.

Everybody has to die, Firdaus. I will die, and you will die. The important thing is how to live until you die.

Make use of life while you have it. Whether you have lived enough depends upon yourself, not on the number of your years.

If all life moves inevitably towards its end, then we must, during our own, colour it with our colours of love and hope.

So now live for real, Craig. Live. Live. Live. Live.

We, we live! ours are the hours, and the living have their claims.

Memento mori - remember death! These are important words. If we kept in mind that we will soon inevitably die, our lives would be completely different. If a person knows that he will die in a half hour, he certainly will not bother doing trivial, stupid, or, especially, bad things during this half hour. Perhaps you have half a century before you die-what makes this any different from a half hour?

Well, the kind of central question: "Do you want to live - and I don't mean stay alive - do you want to feel your life while you're living it?" You know, there's somewhere to go that was here before we were and is going to be here after us, so get out there in it. It doesn't take somebody who's got some self-important sense of their own attachment to nature to recognise that you're just stupid if you don't go out there.

Dying without actually fully living, without waking up to our lives while we have the chance, is an ongoing and significant risk.

Don't wait until life has given you an expiration date to live.

Nothing quite brings out the zest for life in a person like the thought of their impending death.

Always be ready; always live in such a way that death can never find you unprepared.

To live is the rarest thing in the world. Most people exist, that is all.

Love and liveAnd live and loveEach momentTo the fullest.

Live all of your life. Understand it, see it, appreciate it. And have fun.

Make haste to live, and consider each day a life.

Life is too short, or too long, for me to allow myself the luxury of living it so badly.

...for me there is too little of life to spend most of it forcing myself into detachment from it.

Every breath you take, you are getting closer to the grave. But every breath you take, you can also get closer to your liberation.

I'm just trying to wake up - I'm so afraid of sleeping all my life and then dying - I want to wake up first. I wouldn't care if it was just for an hour, as long as I was properly alive and awake.