Sigmund Freud Quotes

Long life is a burden, when it's spent in misery.

It is vanity to desire a long life and to take no heed of a good life.

It is futile to wish for a long life, and then to give so little care to living well.

It matters not how long we live but how.

It should be our care not so much to live a long life as a satisfactory one.

A long life is a life well spent.

It does not matter how long you live, but how well you do it.

To live is not a blessing, but to live well.

There appears to exist a greater desire to live long than to live well! Measure by man's desires, he cannot live long enough; measure by his good deeds, and he has not lived long enough; measure by his evil deeds, and he has lived too long.

Death is easier than a wretched life; and better never to have born than to live and fare badly.

I'm having a great life, and I want to go on having one.

Gratification and happiness are becoming important measures of our quality of life.

Life well spent is long.

As a well-spent day brings happy sleep, so a life well spent brings happy death.

The quality of life is more important than life itself.

Happiness has a bad rap. People say it shouldn't be your goal in life. Oh, yes it should.

People who think dying is the worst thing don't know a thing about life.

I live a very enjoyable life. I understand what moderation is.

Not life, but good life, is to be chiefly valued.

HAPPY EVER AFTER is a concept I'll never believe in. I would be content to sample some little taste of happiness today, tonight, right now. Though I know without a doubt that tomorrow will come saturated with pain. Life is like that. At least my life. And honestly, I cant think of anyone whose life is any different. The price tag for joy is misery. [...]

The advantage of living is not measured by length, but by use; some men have lived long, and lived little; attend to it while you are in it. It lies in your will, not in the number of years, for you to have lived enough.

One must live well to know what living is.

The measure of a man's life is the well spending of it, and not the length.

Better to have a short life that is full of what you like doing than a long life spent in a miserable way.

Many things can make you miserable for weeks; few can bring you a whole day of happiness.