Life Celebration Quotes

Eroticism is assenting to life even in death.

Weddings are important because they celebrate life and possibility.

Bottom line, wasn’t life itself a special occasion?

You're not dead at 85. You're a long way from it. Go out and enjoy. You've earned it.

They say such nice things about people at their funerals that it makes me sad that I'm going to miss mine by just a few days.

My poems are hymns of praise to the glory of life.

I don't want a tombstone. You could carve on it 'She never actually wanted a tombstone.'

I was born and trained to communicate music, just as the sons were born and trained to hunt, and I was lucky to have grown up in Hungary, a country that lives and breathes music-that has a passionate belief in the power of music as a celebration of life.

An epitaph is a belated advertisement for a line of goods that has been discontinued.

I should like to abolish funerals; the time to mourn a person is at his birth, not his death.

So what if someone wrote your obituary... that doesn't mean you are obligated to die.

I'm Jewish and respect the traditions of Judaism, but through all the time I've spent photographing nature, I also have a deep appreciation for the power of the universe. No, not the power of the universe, but just celebrating life.

Being an artist is celebrating life.

The word ‘holiday’ comes from ‘holy day’ and holy means ‘exalted and worthy of complete devotion.’ By that definition, all days are holy. Life is holy. Atheists have joy every day of the year, every holy day. We have the wonder and glory of life. We have joy in the world before the lord is come. We’re not going for the promise of life after death; we’re celebrating life before death…For atheists, everything in the world is enough and every day is holy. Every day is an atheist holiday. It’s a day that we’re alive.

Autobiography is the most fascinating thing you can do because you get to touch the human condition. And in the end, what else is there? To me, it's the ultimate affirmation of life, and a miracle of this transient, extremely fragile organism. To celebrate that, I think, is a noble thing to do.

Life seeks life and loves life. The opening of a catkin of a willow, in the flight of the butterfly, in the chirping of a tree-toad or the sweep of an eagle - my life loves to see how others live, exults in their joy, and so far is partner in their great concern.

We need to stop apologizing for celebrating life. We need to stop apologizing for wanting to protect an individual's right to build a business.

Sometimes God picks you up and tells you, "You've been messing around now. You're going to have to stop this, stop that, but I'll give you another chance." And you wonder why you're given another chance. It must be for something; it must be to celebrate life.

People dress up for funerals. Why not dress up to celebrate that you’re alive?

That is my work, to transform your life from a sad affair into a celebration.

My mother died in 2005. She was 61 years old.

My grandmother passed at 104. She sang and wrote songs until she passed.

Death in its natural state can be very beautiful. When you think about a body that's died of natural causes - family taking care of it - all of that is very beautiful.

The man who has lived his life totally, intensely, passionately, without any fear - without any fear that has been created in you by the priests for centuries and centuries - if a person lives his life without any fear, authentically, spontaneously, death will not create any fear in him, not at all. In fact, death will come as a great rest. Death will come as the ultimate flowering of life. He will be able to enjoy death too; he will be able to celebrate death too.