'To live is the rarest thing in the world. Most people exist, that is all.'

'We are all in the gutter, but some of us are looking at the stars.'

'I would rather that my spark should burn out in a brilliant blaze than it should be stifled by dry-rot ... The proper function of man is to live, not to exist. I shall not waste my days in trying to prolong them. I shall use my time.'

A quote from Van Gogh

'Life's short. Anything could happen, and it usually does, so there is no point in sitting around thinking about all the ifs, ands, and buts.'

'All that is gold does not glitter, not all those who wander are lost; the old that is strong does not wither, deep roots are not reached by the frost.'

'I've come to the conclusion that life is for the taking and just too short to dwell on the negative.'

'And I knew that it was better to live out one's absurdity than to die for that of others.'

'Art is the human disposition of sensible or intelligible matter for an aesthetic end.'

'You only go around once, but if you play your cards right, once is enough.'

'In three words I can sum up everything I've learned about life: it goes on.'

'Service to others is the rent you pay for your room here on earth.'

'It's those who lie outside ordinary experience who have the most to teach us.'

'The true measure of all our actions is how long the good in them lasts.'

'A life is not important except in the impact it has on other lives.'

A quote by Magic Johnson

'Live a life so when I die, there's standing room only.'

'Those who dream by day are cognizant of many things which escape those who dream only by night.'

'To live is to choose. But to choose well, you must know who you are and what you stand for, where you want to go and why you want to get there.'

'Only those who dare to fail greatly can ever achieve greatly.'

'Many of life's failures are people who did not realize how close they were to success when they gave up.'

'I love quotations because it is a joy to find thoughts one might have, beautifully expressed with much authority by someone recognized wiser than oneself.'

'A good friend is like a four-leaf clover, hard to find and lucky to have.'

Friedrich Nietzsche theorized that we will live our lives over and over again: the myth of eternal recurrence

'Try to be a rainbow in someone's cloud.'

'The fact is always obvious much too late, but the most singular difference between happiness and joy is that happiness is a solid and joy a liquid.'

A quote by Herman Melville

'Imagination is more important than knowledge. For knowledge is limited, whereas imagination embraces the entire world.'

'Nothing in life is to be feared, it is only to be understood. Now is the time to understand more, so that we may fear less.' - Chemist and physicist Marie Curie (1867 - 1934)

'Fear of life closes off more opportunities for us than fear of death ever does.'

'Don’t try to be young. Just open your mind. Stay interested in stuff. There are so many things I won’t live long enough to find out about, but I’m still curious about them.'

'No one is useless in this world who lightens the burdens of another.'

'I am a writer who came from a sheltered life. A sheltered life can be a daring life as well. For all serious daring starts from within.'

'How wonderful it is that nobody need wait a single moment before starting to improve the world.' - Anne Frank

'The man who views the world at 50 the same as he did at 20 has wasted 30 years of his life.'

'The more clearly we can focus our attention on the wonders and realities of the universe about us, the less taste we shall have for destruction.'

A quote from Robin Williams

'Why am I trying to become what I don't want to be … when all I want is out there, waiting for me the minute I say I know who I am.'

A quote by Howard Hughes

'Don't gain the world and lose your soul; wisdom is better than silver or gold.'

Albert Camus believed existence was 'absurd'

'Let us learn to show our friendship for a man when he is alive and not after he is dead.'

'You will never be happier than you expect. To change your happiness, change your expectation.'

'Others have seen what is and asked why. I have seen what could be and asked why not.'

'The bounty of nature is also one of the deep needs of man.'

'In life, unlike chess, the game continues after checkmate.'

The key ingredients to life on Earth—and elsewhere

'The soul should always stand ajar, ready to welcome the ecstatic experience.'

A Quote by Sandra Day O'Connor

Samuel Beckett's 'Waiting for Godot' dramatizes existential absurdity

A quote by Lauren Bacall