Philippe Petit Quotes

It's taken me a long time to realize that my own life is far more interesting than any part I'll ever play.

My limits are limitless. I find my limits every time I act.

It is not true that we have only one life to live; if we can read, we can live as many more lives and as many kinds of lives as we wish.

They were afraid, never having learned what I taught myself: Defeat the fear of death and welcome the death of fear.

Everything is a piece of me, a moment of my life.

Either we are in the universe to inhabit the eternity of our souls and grow real, or else we might as well dedicate our days to shopping and kill time watching talk-shows.

I am drawn to characters that go on journeys, characters that are real people, that have life.

The experience of the human, male or female, cannot be completely defined by one startling, surprising, or gigantic life experience.

I am more interested in experiencing life than in analyzing it.

You have to try things in life.

We must risk going too far to discover just how far we can go.

I do know middle age can bring greater depth, greater wisdom, greater capacity for love, greater capacity for relationship, greater consciousness and desire to serve and awareness of the fate of mankind - all these wonderful things, yes. And I know I'm getting there.

I find there is a quality to being alone that is incredibly precious. Life rushes back into the void, richer, more vivid, fuller than before.

I have come to understand that life is best to be lived and not to be conceptualized. I am happy because I am growing daily and I am honestly not knowing where the limit lies.

It isn’t happiness I am concerned with but experience.

I've lived this lifestyle as an artist and sometimes we get caught up in the fun, women and partying. But when you really sit back and think about it, it's not what fulfills you deep down inside and there's much more to experience in life than just that.

I’ve often said that I wish people could realize all their dreams and wealth and fame, so that they could see that it’s not where they’re gonna find their sense of completion. Like many of you, I was concerned about going out into the world and doing something bigger than myself, until someone smarter than myself made me realize that there is nothing bigger than myself. My soul is not contained within the limits of my body, my body is contained within the limitlessness of my soul.

The more you go to your limits, the more your limits will expand.

I think in a way, what it is to be human is to transcend our boundaries. That is the human story.

I have found that you have only to take that one step toward the gods, and they will then take ten steps toward you. That step, the heroic first step of the journey, is out of, or over the edge of, your boundaries, and it often must be taken before you know that you will.

Life reveals itself to us only in so far as well live it.

In each of us there are places we have never gone. Only by pressing the limits do you ever find them.

He that has never known adversity is but half acquainted with others, or with himself.

we all begin the process before we are ready, before we are strong enough, before we know enough; we begin a dialogue with thoughts and feelings that both tickle and thunder within us. We respond before we know how to speak the language, before we know all the answers, and before we know exactly to whom we are speaking.