meaning Quotes

Why do I not seek some real good; one which I could feel, not one which I could display?

If a man knows not what harbor he seeks, any wind is the right wind.

As is a tale, so is life: not how long it is, but how good it is, is what matters.

Not how long, but how well you have lived is the main thing.

You must live for another if you wish to live for yourself.

Begin at once to live, and count each separate day as a separate life.

When Auden said his poetry didn't save one Jew from the gas chamber, he'd said it all.

People have quite a simple idea about 'Anna Karenina.' They feel that the novel is entirely about a young married woman who falls in love with a cavalry officer and leaves her husband after much agony, and pays the price for that.

Life in a box is better than no life at all... I expect.

I think I enlist comedy to a serious purpose.