Do not take life too seriously. You will never get out of it alive.

Do not take life too seriously. You will never get out of it alive.

I don't believe in an afterlife, so I don't have to spend my whole life fearing hell, or fearing heaven read more

I don't believe in an afterlife, so I don't have to spend my whole life fearing hell, or fearing heaven even more. For whatever the tortures of hell, I think the boredom of heaven would be even worse.

I arise in the morning torn between a desire to improve the world and a desire to enjoy the world. read more

I arise in the morning torn between a desire to improve the world and a desire to enjoy the world. This makes it hard to plan the day.

Saw life steadily and saw it whole.

Saw life steadily and saw it whole.

It's a good thing that life is not as serious as it seems to a waiter.

It's a good thing that life is not as serious as it seems to a waiter.

Our life is composed greatly from dreams, from the unconscious, and they must be brought into connection with action. They read more

Our life is composed greatly from dreams, from the unconscious, and they must be brought into connection with action. They must be woven together.

Life is one long process of getting tired.

Life is one long process of getting tired.

Oh for a life of sensations rather than thoughts.

Oh for a life of sensations rather than thoughts.

I think that, as life is action and passion, it is required of a man that he should share the read more

I think that, as life is action and passion, it is required of a man that he should share the passion and action of his time at peril of being judged not to have lived.