Franz Wright Quotes

I don't know if I was put on this Earth for a purpose or not. But I'm fairly confident that I'll be taken off of it for one.

I have a rendezvous with life.

You can't even kill yourself if it isn't your time to go. People have no control whatsoever over what happens to them, and they are beginning to realize this. The future lies in the time of living. Your doing something will get you into tomorrow, if you want to call it tomorrow. If you want to make those distinctions at all.

Our lives are programmed at conception and are endowed with purpose and meaning.

We are born in the world because we have to learn something through whatever we're born into. Although it might be awful. That's why it's an illusion to think that we really run our lives. We don't.

I don't know why I'm alive but I know there's a reason for it.

Life, not death, is the great mystery you must confront.

Drink! For you know not whence you came nor why.

... we die, just as we were born, at the edge of a road not of our choosing.

What is this world that is hastening me toward I know not what, viewing me with contempt?

I'm a victim of maybe circumstances, but look at how it worked out.

What we pay for with our lives never costs too much.

I was thinking about how fleeting and precious life is. Life is also arbitrary. For example, the choices that you make, the luck of being born into the right bed, to parents who support and help you and who love you. That doesn't always happen - and then, what happens when it doesn't?

The experience of life that you and I have is pretty much a jigsaw puzzle in the box: Day-to-day experiences of disconnected pieces that don't seem to justify the efforts we make each day.

We are all racing towards death. No matter how many great, intellectual conclusions we draw during our lives, we know they're all only man-made, like God. I begin to wonder where it all leads. What can you do, except do what you can do as best you know how.

What do I know of man's destiny? I could tell you more about radishes.

You never think the universe will reward your first choice - it just doesn't work like that.

Everything has been figured out, except how to live.

One should always look to the end of everything, how it will finally come out. For the god has shown blessedness to many only to overturn them utterly in the end.

One always dies too soon or too late. And yet, life is there, finished: the line is drawn, and it must all be added up. You are nothing other than your life.

There's no adventure in knowing the outcome of who you're supposed to be with.

What is our destiny? Does it matter? Is it bound up with 'our' planet? In my opinion, yes.

Though men determine, the gods doo dispose: and oft times many things fall out betweene the cup and the lip.

Obviously, we're all going to die at some point. Whether or not we are fated to die in some way I think is debatable. I just don't know which side to debate.

Time and chance reveal all secrets.