Life Intensity Quotes

He that lives most dies most.

Was everyone else really as alive as she was?...If the answer was yes, then the world, the social world, was unbearably complicated, with two billion voices, and everyone's thoughts striving in equal importance and everyone's claim on life as intense, and everyone thinking they were unique, when no one was.

The closer you are to death, the more alive you feel.

A day in Afghanistan is like a week at home.

What do you want? You can't want to be happy, because that's too easy and too boring. You can't want only to love, because that's impossible. What do you want? You want to justify your life, to live it as intensely as possible. That is at once a trap and a source of ecstasy. Try to be alert to that danger and experience the joy and the adventure of being that woman who is beyond the image reflected in the mirror.

One can live for years sometimes without living at all, and then all life comes crowding into one single hour.

The curse of an interesting life: there are either very good times or very bad times.

As to virtue . . . it is an act of the will, a habit which increases the quantity, intensity and quality of life. It builds up, strengthens and vivifies personality.

In his own way, he's lived life with all the intensity he could muster.

The man who has lived his life totally, intensely, passionately, without any fear - without any fear that has been created in you by the priests for centuries and centuries - if a person lives his life without any fear, authentically, spontaneously, death will not create any fear in him, not at all. In fact, death will come as a great rest. Death will come as the ultimate flowering of life. He will be able to enjoy death too; he will be able to celebrate death too.

We are all born to die—the difference is the intensity with which we choose to live.

One of the beautiful things about having kids is I had no idea how much it will make you look into yourself and who you are and what you believe in and what your past was like and all that kind of stuff. I think it's made me really look at life in a much more intense way.

Many people say that recovery from an aneurysm is like having a layer of skin ripped off - your experience of life is more intense.

I live and breathe every element in life.

A man must live like a great brilliant flame and burn as brightly as he can. In the end he burns out. But this is far better than a mean little flame.

Nothing lasts in New York. The life that is lived there, however, is as intense as it gets.

I am going to die. But I am going to die in peace because I lived my life as intensely as I could.

For me an object is something living. This cigarette or this box of matches contains a secret life much more intense than that of certain human beings.

And that's how we measure out our real respect for people—by the degree of feeling they can register, the voltage of life they can carry and tolerate—and enjoy. End of sermon. As Buddha says: live like a mighty river. And as the old Greeks said: live as though all your ancestors were living again through you.

Everyone must decide for himself whether it is better to have a brief but more intensely felt existence or to live a long and ordinary life.

What we lack is intensity of life.

Eternal life is not primarily duration but quality of life, "life to the limit.

There is no clear distinction anywhere on the Earth's surface between living and nonliving matter. There is merely a hierarchy of intensity going from the 'material' environment of the rocks and the atmosphere to the living cells.

I wanted to live deep and suck out all the marrow of life.

Prodigious was the amount of life I lived that morning.