James Dickey Quotes

Life, if thou knowest how to use it, is long enough.

The purpose of life is to discover your gift. The work of life is to develop it. The meaning of life is to give your gift away.

Life is long if you know how to use it.

The utility of living consists not in the length of days, but in the use of time; a man may have lived long, and yet lived but a little.

A long life may not be good enough, but a good life is long enough.

The meaning of life is not to be discovered only after death in some hidden, mysterious realm; on the contrary, it can be found by eating the succulent fruit of the Tree of Life and by living in the here and now as fully and creatively as we can.

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.

Don't worry about writing a book or getting famous or making money. Just lead an interesting life.

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

The purpose of human life and the sense of happiness is to give the maximum what the man is able to give.

The secret to living long is to have something to live for.

A successful life depends less on how long you live than on how much you can pack into the time you have.

The purpose of life afterall is to live it.

A long life is a life well spent.

If you just take it down to bare facts, the reason for living is the reason you make it. I mean the brain was made to create.

The aim of life is to be fully born, though its tragedy is that most of us die before we are thus born.

As long as I have a want, I have a reason for living. Satisfaction is death.

The secret of life is in art.

A long, healthy, and happy life is the result of making contributions, of having meaningful projects that are personally exciting and contribute to and bless the lives of others.

I get so into playing the bass. The only time I ever feel the same way is when I'm having sex; it's the epitome of unifying with something.

When I was younger I was looking for this magic meaning of life. It's very simple now. Making the lives of others better, doing something of lasting value. That's the meaning of life, it's that simple.

But unless we are creators, we are not fully alive.

To be creative you actually have to do something.

I'll probably be writing as long as I'm breathing.

What is the purpose of life? I believe that the purpose of life is to be happy.