Edgard Varese Quotes

If you've done what you need to do, you need to go bury yourself, because what else are you going to do? I think that that's where life stops.

Heard someone say, 'I can't wait until I can finally say I've made it.' The day you think you've 'made it' is the day you begin your decline.

If a man has come to that point where he is no content that he says; I do not want to know any more, or do any more or be any more, he is in a state in which he ought to be changed into a mummy.

When I am dead and buried, on my tombstone I would like to have it written, 'I have arrived.' Because when you feel that you have arrived, you are dead.

The day you are content, you will stop growing.

The more difficult question for me is, do you remain successful for what you had done? I don't know. I think success is in your own eyes. But, I don't really want to ever feel like I've achieved success. Because then I'd be spoiled. I want to feel like I need to keep doing more. Maybe I get "content," "settled," and "success" confused. I never want to settle, but I would love to be content.

To me there's a difference between success and satisfaction. A lot of people have success and no satisfaction. I'm after satisfaction. I

Striving toward a goal puts a more pleasing construction on our advance toward death.

Most people achieve their goals and are like, "Is this all there is?" We are supposed to keep growing so we have something to get. What we get never makes us happy. You play yourself when you forget that.

Achievement; the death of endeavor and the birth of disgust.

I'm not scared of growing old, I'm just scared of not achieving everything that I want to do.

Life is very short... but I would like to live four times and if I could, I would set out to do no other things than I am seeking now to do.

I'm glad I haven't lived in vain.

I want to be all used up when I die.

I'm not on the run from anything and I'm not at all clear about what I'm running towards. But as some great writer put it, I want to be certain that when I arrive at death, I'm totally exhausted.

I believe happiness is a chemical imbalance - it's a silly thing to strife for. But satisfaction - if you seek satisfaction, you can succeed. Satisfaction is knowing that you're doing the best that you can do; you're living your life to the fullest.

Here is the test to find whether your mission on Earth is finished: if you're alive, it isn't.

When you were born, you cried and everybody else was happy. The only question that matters is this - when you die, will you be happy when everybody else is crying?

There are three ingredients in the good life: learning, earning and yearning.

When a person becomes satisfied, he doesn't run after things, doesn't worry about it, and doesn't make efforts.

If you say, 'You've made it,' then you kind of come to a standstill, and I don't think any actor wants to do that.

Success is about enjoying what you have and where you are, while pursuing achievable goals.

On the plains of hesitation lie the blackened bones of countless millions who at the dawn of victory lay down to rest, and in resting died.

An unused life is an early death.

When a man is no longer anxious to do better than well, he is done for.