Philip James Bailey Quotes

The advantage of living is not measured by length, but by use; some men have lived long, and lived little; attend to it while you are in it. It lies in your will, not in the number of years, for you to have lived enough.

Do not fear death so much but rather the inadequate life.

Everyone dies. It is how one lives that matters.

It is vanity to desire a long life and to take no heed of a good life.

The measure of a man's life is the well spending of it, and not the length.

It does not matter how long you live, but how well you do it.

To live is not a blessing, but to live well.

A long life may not be good enough, but a good life is long enough.

What good to us is a long life if it is difficult and barren of joys, and if it is so full of misery that we can only welcome death as a deliverer?

There appears to exist a greater desire to live long than to live well! Measure by man's desires, he cannot live long enough; measure by his good deeds, and he has not lived long enough; measure by his evil deeds, and he has lived too long.

What we know for sure from our work and from others' is that mice have a life span of 1,000 days, dogs have 5,000 days, and we humans have 29,000 days. Recognizing that the duration is limited, and aging is inevitable, focus the attention on enhancing the quality of the days you have.

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

The quality, not the longevity, of one's life is what is important.

Old men should have more care to end life well than to live long.

It matters not how a man dies, but how he lives. The act of dying is not of importance, it lasts so short a time.

Our care should not be to have lived long as to have lived enough.

All of us want to live, and that is absolutely natural. However, we should learn from childhood on to choose our best way to die. If we don't do that, we end up spending our days like a dog, only in search of harbour, food and expressing a blind loyalty to his owner in return. That isn't enough to make our lives have a meaning.

The quality of life is more important than life itself.

Without fullness of experience, length of days is nothing. When fullness of life has been achieved, shortness of days is nothing. That is perhaps why the young have usually so little fear of death; they live by intensities that the elderly have forgotten.

People who think dying is the worst thing don't know a thing about life.

What is called a reason for living is also an excellent reason for dying.

It is futile to wish for a long life, and then to give so little care to living well.

..a man may live long, yet live very little. Satisfaction in life depends not on the number of your years, but on your will.

As is a tale, so is life: not how long it is, but how good it is, is what matters. I wish you all very good lives.

A successful life depends less on how long you live than on how much you can pack into the time you have.