“García Lorca sought the sharp experience of life that is realized only by a heightened awareness of our own mortality.”
— Alex Green
“… He said the best art reminds us that we are all living “on the rim of the well.”
The purpose of life is to live it, to taste experience to the utmost, to reach out eagerly and without fear for newer and richer experience
— Eleanor Roosevelt
Life after death is not the question. It is life before death. So how are you going to do it? How are you going to live?
— From movie “Linda Ronstadt: The Sound of My Voice”
If you have wide and keen interests and activities in which you can still be effective, you will have no reason to think about the merely statistical fact of the number of years you have already lived, still less of the probable shortness of your future
— Bertrand Russell (link)
And joy is, after all, the end of life. We do not live to eat and make money. We eat and make money to be able to live. That is what life means and what life is for
— George Mallory
In life the challenge is not so much to figure out how best to play the game; the challenge is to figure out what game you’re playing
— Kwame Anthony Appiah