Albert Szent-Gyorgyi Quotes

We do not know what to do with this short life, yet we want another which will be eternal.

Everything has been figured out, except how to live.

Any art worthy of its name should address 'life', 'man', 'nature', 'death' and 'tragedy'.

We shall all die, and our lives will be irrelevant then.

One is born, one lives, one dies. What death is, I don't know.

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

I've always been slightly preoccupied with death or whatever those kind of silly big questions people will tell you to not spend your time worrying about.

If death meant just leaving the stage long enough to change costume and come back as a new character, would you slow down? Or speed up?

In the last analysis, it is our conception of death which decides our answers to all the questions that life puts to us.

Challenging the meaning of life is the truest expression of the state of being human.

Life is here only to be lived so that we can, through life, earn the right to death, which to me is paradise. Whatever it is that will bring me the reward of paradise, I'll do the best I can.

You don't waste your entire life waiting to go back to dust.

Life is but a moment, death also is but another.

For me, life and death are very important themes. There is no life without death. That's why it's very important to me.

Death destroys a man, but the idea of death saves him.

'Hamlet' is one of the most dangerous things ever set down on paper. All the big, unknowable questions like what it is to be a human being; the difference between sanity and insanity; the meaning of life and death; what's real and not real. All these subjects can literally drive you mad.

Life and death have been lacking in my life.

To be, or not to be, that is the question.

The average man does not know what to do with this life, yet wants another one which will last forever.

Watching a whole cluster of friends, and my own mother, die over quite a short space of time convinced me that purely materialist 'explanations' for our mysterious human existence simply won't do - on an intellectual level.

Man, as long as he lives, is immortal. One minute before his death he shall be immortal. But one minute later, God wins.

All of us have the same thing coming - death. It's waiting. But I don't want to go. I want to live to be 102!

You must realize that one day you will die. Until then you are worthless.

What is life about? Two things: love and death.

I don't think we're any more preoccupied by life and death or heaven and hell than anyone else, but it's fun to write about the inevitable - you're alive, and you're going to die.