Life Quotes

"Life is a lot like jazz - it's better when you improvise."

"Life is full of surprises and seizing opportunities is what counts."

"Life is too short to waste on mediocrity."

"Life imitates opera more often than opera imitates life."

"Life is only worth living if we are growing."

"To live is to continually grow and change."

"Find yourself first, and everything else will follow."

"What we do in life echoes in eternity."

"Youth is the season of the soul."

"Breathing is the only thing preventing us from death."

"Keep your heart pure and your mind sharp."

"Live fully, love deeply, create boldly."

"Life is too short to compose what society expects."

"Life is a lot like jazz - it's best when you improvise."

"The man I would like to be is not the man I would like to talk to at dinner."

"I want to live, not merely exist."

"I want to love, I want to work, I want to live my life."

"The rhythm of life cannot be contained in a metronome."

"The greatest compositions come from living a full life."

"He who loves not wine, women, and song remains a fool his whole life long."

"Plaudite, amici, comedia finita est."

"Life without endeavor is like entering a port without sailing."

"I had a very happy childhood, but the later years were embittered by malice."

"One cannot be deeply responsive to the world without being saddened very often."

"The measure of a life is not its duration, but its donation."

"To be conscious is to suffer."

"Every opera tells the story of the human condition."

"Art is the only thing that makes life worth living."

"I compose because the alternative is to be less than fully alive."

"The true measure of a life is not its length, but its resonance."