Jean Paul Quotes

The more sand has escaped from the hourglass of our life, the clearer we should see through it.

The month of November makes me feel that life is passing more quickly. In an effort to slow it down, I try to fill the hours more meaningfully.

From now until the end of time no one else will ever see life with my eyes, and I mean to make the best of my chance.

It's terrible to realize you don't learn how to live until you're ready to die, and then it's too late.

I don't have a bad relationship. I'm 48 years old. I think life is too short for that. To me, life is... you open the shutters, you see the dogs outside, you look left, you look right, in, what, a second and a half? And that's a life.

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.

Somebody said the prospect of eminent death has a wonderful clarifying effect on the mind. And I don't know if that's true, but I do think it probably causes some changes, some evolution in the way a person works. But on a day-by-day basis, I just still enjoy doing what I'm doing.

You get to a certain point - gratefully - when you're out of your twenties, and you realize how fleeting life is. So, it becomes important to feel as if the people in your life know exactly how you feel about them at all times.

I think that there is something beautiful about mortality. It makes our decisions mean more.

Spend the afternoon. You can't take it with you.

I believe that life is shorter; that is why we have to make experience longer.

The clock never stops, never stops, never waits. We're growing old. It's getting late.

Life is much shorter than I imagined it to be.

So all of these things are going on that make you wake up and realize you are a mortal person. You can choose to cruise through your life, but if you do, you're going to open your eyes at some point, and it's gone.

I think mortality makes you live a fuller existence. When I was a kid I was scared of death, and maybe that's what made me desperate to get the most out of life.

The reality is if you were going to die tomorrow, and someone offered you another 10 years, most people would take those 10 years.

Death is inevitable, but Life - that's the tricky bit where things happen.

I really have this sense that time is passing, and it's important to do what you have wanted to do.

When you are forty, half of you belongs to the past... And when you are seventy, nearly all of you.

I think that when you've only lived 17 years, you don't have, you haven't had a full canon of experiences, so every moment that you have here feels like the last moment in the world, because you've only had a handful of whatever those moments are.

We should weep for men at their birth, not at their death.

Time hurries by, we're here and gone.

It's the game of life. Do I win or do I lose? One day they're gonna shut the game down. I gotta have as much fun and go around the board as many times as I can before it's my turn to leave.

Like as the waves make towards the pebbl'd shore, so do our minutes, hasten to their end.

Who knows for what we live, and struggle, and die? Wise men write many books, in words too hard to understand. But this, the purpose of our lives, the end of all our struggle, is beyond all human wisdom.