Pina Bausch Quotes

Each person's life is a story that is telling itself in the living.

My life is my message.

The business of living - that's your artwork, and the process of that is finding out who you are, what it all means.

I am so enriched because so much has happened in my life. The way I can express myself is because of the life I have led. It's only when you experience life can you emote it.

I also believe that writing becomes worthwhile and vitalized only through a full and exciting life.

In a magazine, one can get - from cover to cover - 15 to 20 different ideas about life and how to live it.

We have two lives the one we learn with and the life we live after that.

They are the guiding oracles which man has found out for himself in that great business of ours, of learning how to be, to do, to do without, and to depart.

My trade and art is to live.

'On the Road' completely changed the way I looked at what you could do with your life.

I'm on this search trying to figure out exactly who I am and what I have to say to people.

To find in ourselves what makes life worth living is risky business, for it means that once we know we must seek it. It also means that without it life will be valueless.

Each of us finds his unique vehicle for sharing with others his bit of wisdom.

You can't tell what's going to fulfill you in different stages in your life.

The best path through life is the highway.

This record for the first time - feels like a record that really represents my whole entire life and instead of just a period of my life. And it is really kind of eye opening and it makes me feel really good to hear this record and hear all the years.

Life is half spent before we know what it is.

I wanted to make the album I always needed to make. I had to say the things I never could.

I think of life as a good book. The further you get into it, the more it begins to make sense.

My whole life I've been a seeker, searching for something.

Basically, I feel fortunate to have realized what the goal is in life. There's no point in dying having gone through your life without knowing who you are, what you are, or what the purpose of life is. And that's all it is.

There comes a turning point in the life of every person when he reflects on his journey and work and ponders on the next road to take. Is this the pinnacle, the ultimate? What next?

I think life is the sum total of your experiences.

It's like, you can know you want to live your life by being yourself, but how do you actually do that? That can be a whole lifelong journey.

I have a whole journey - everybody does in life.