Soon silence will have passed into legend. Man has turned his back on silence. Day after day he invents machines and devices that increase noise and distract humanity from the essence of life, contemplation, meditation. Jean Arp Meditation Silence
The rare few, who, early in life have rid themselves of the friendship of the many. James Whistler Friendship
Any life is made up of a single moment, the moment in which a man finds out, once and for all, who he is. Jorge Luis Borges
The most happy man is he who knows how to bring into relation the end and beginning of his life. Johann Wolfgang von Goethe Happiness Beginning
The average man does not know what to do with this life, yet wants another one which will last forever. Anatole France
Love between man and man is impossible because there must not be sexual intercourse and friendship between man and woman is impossible because there must be sexual intercourse. James Joyce
It seems, in fact, as though the second half of a man's life is made up of nothing, but the habits he has accumulated during the first half. Fyodor Dostoevsky
Anything for the quick life, as the man said when he took the situation at the lighthouse. Charles Dickens
Once is a man's life, for one mortal moment, he must make a grab for immorality; if not, he has not lived. Sylvester Stallone Morality
