Jose Ortega y Gasset Life Is Quotations

All life is the struggle, the effort to be itself.

We cannot put off living until we are ready. The most salient characteristic of life is its urgency, 'here and now' without any possible postponement. Life is fired at us point-blank.

Our firmest convictions are apt to be the most suspect; they mark our limitations and our bounds. Life is a petty thing unless it is moved by the indomitable urge to extend its boundaries.

Life is fired at us point blank.

Every life is, more or less, a ruin among whose debris we have to discover what the person ought to have been.