John Oldham Quotes

What you want, what you're hanging around in the world waiting for, is for something to occur to you.

If you can't get excited about living life, then what are you doing?

We live because of the dreams.

Life is all about the spirit.

When you cease to dream you cease to live.

To live without Hope is to Cease to live.

Pray that your loneliness may spur you into finding something to live for, great enough to die for.

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

Life is a beautiful thing, but a lot of it, it kind of replicates itself.

One, remember to look up at the stars and not down at your feet. Two, never give up work. Work gives you meaning and purpose and life is empty without it. Three, if you are lucky enough to find love, remember it is there and don't throw it away.

She's a walkin', talkin' reason to live.

Applause, applause, life is our cause.

We need not only a purpose in life to give meaning to our existence but also something to give meaning to our suffering. We need as much something to suffer for as something to live for.

Where there is hope...there is life

Hope is life's essential nutrient, and love is what gives life meaning

The very shape of our dreams defines us. We learn about the world and try out our thoughts and visions in them. Our dreams goad us and drive us and summon and sustain us and when we are old they comfort us. Magic is a kind of dream, and love is a dream, and hope is a dream. Without our dreams, there is no sweetness, no purpose to life.

What makes life dreary is the want of a motive.

Love is the reason you were born.

I think that everybody needs four things in life. Everybody needs something to do regardless of age. Everybody needs someone to love. Everybody needs something to hope for, and, of course, everybody needs someone to believe in.

Life: my favorite occupation.

People's lives are boring.

If we were not all so interested in ourselves, life would be so uninteresting that none of us would be able to endure it.

It is your work in life that is the ultimate seduction.

Work is the only meanin' I've ever known.

You can give men food and leisure and amusements and good conditions of work, and still they will remain unsatisfied. You can deny them all these things, and they will not complain so long as they feel that they have something to die for.