Novalis Quotes

You've got to have fun in life. Otherwise, wow - imagine life without fun.

Is life worth living? Yes, so long As Spring revives the year, And hails us with the cuckoo's song, To show that she is here.

I have a lot of success and make a good living, but after while, you start going 'Why? Why are you doing all this?'

Judging whether life is or is not worth living amounts to answering the fundamental question of philosophy.

I used to worry about what life was for - now being alive seems sufficient reason.

Basically, at the very bottom of life, which seduces us all, there is only absurdity, and more absurdity. And maybe that's what gives us our joy for living, because the only thing that can defeat absurdity is lucidity.

The most simple things can bring the most happiness.

I have no complaints on any level. I'm pretty happy about the way everything has turned out.

My life has no purpose, no direction, no aim, no meaning, and yet I'm happy. I can't figure it out. What am I doing right?

You come to a point where you realize your work doesn't save you.

Many people in their teens wonder about these big questions - what's the meaning of life, what are we doing here - then somewhere in their 20s, they seem to say, 'I'll just get married. I'll just have kids. I'll get back to that later.' But they never do. For me, it kept boiling.

What is this life but the sound of an appalling love.

Son, are you happy? I don't mean to pry, but do you dream of Heaven? Have you ever wanted to die?

Life is wonderful. It's a gift to be alive, to see the sun and breathe the air. And there isn't really anything else.

When neither high purpose nor the categorical imperatives of religion will do, the only argument against suicide is life itself. You pause and attend: the heart beats in your chest; outside, the trees are thick with new leaves, a swallow dips over them, the light moves, people are going about their business.

The business of life is to enjoy oneself; everything else is a mockery.

We’re so wrapped up with egotistical things, career, family, having enough money, meeting the mortgage, getting a new car, fixing the radiator when it breaks—we’re involved in trillions of little acts just to keep going. So we don’t get into the habit of standing back and looking at our lives and saying, Is this all? Is this all I want? Is something missing?

Men die and they are not happy.

Pleasure usually comes when called, but not happiness.

There's more to Life than this

Oh, how beautiful it is to be alive - would that I could live a thousand times

Part of the pleasure of being alive is the knowledge that you're not dead yet.

My experience is that it's precisely the ones who don't know what to do with this life who are all hot and bothered about what they are going to do with another life.

Man ought always to have something that he prefers to life; otherwise life itself will seem to him tiresome and void.

I am alive, he says to himself, I am alive! And life energy surges hotly through him, and delight, and appetite. How good to be in a body - even this old beat-up carcass - that still has warm blood and live semen and rich marrow and wholesome flesh!