Jean Cocteau Quotes

I cannot help but think a curious event is this life of mine.

Life is a question without a standard answer.

I have always knocked at the door of that wonderful and terrible enigma which is life.

When I'm lying in my bed I think about life and I think about death and neither one particularly appeals to me.

Life is a foreign language; all men mispronounce it.

Life is a predicament which precedes death.

What do I know of man's destiny? I could tell you more about radishes.

Real life is far more complicated than fiction.

I've never worried about life's big questions.

The main questions of everyday life are too enormous to answer in any definitive sense.

To be, or not to be, that is the question.

Ah, what a dusty answer gets the soul when hot for certainties in this our life!

I don't know how one should live - but I know that one should live.

I don't know if I was put on this Earth for a purpose or not. But I'm fairly confident that I'll be taken off of it for one.

To die, it's easy. But you have to struggle for life.

I think life's an irrational obsession.

For a while, the world for me was like a set of monkey bars. I swung from one place to the next, sometimes backward, sometimes forward, capitalizing on my own momentum, knowing that at some point my arms... would give out, and I'd fall to the ground.

Life is a series of avoiding horrible situations until ultimately you're dead. That's how I feel about things.

I still live, I still think: I still have to live, for I still have to think.

If we don't know life, how can we know death?

The chances of each of us coming into existence are infinitesimally small, and even though we shall all die some day, we should count ourselves fantastically lucky to get our decades in the sun.

What is life? A madness. What is life? An illusion, a shadow, a story. And the greatest good is little enough; for all life is a dream, and dreams themselves are only dreams.

I believe life is a parenthesis between two nothings. I'm an atheist. I believe in a personal God, which is conscience, and that's what we must be accountable to every day.

Understand life's mysteries - as mysteries to be lived.

Living is a form of not being sure, not knowing what next or how. The moment you know how, you begin to die a little.