Isaac Asimov Life Quotations

I write for the same reason I breathe - because if I didn't, I would die.

I am not a speed reader. I am a speed understander.

If my doctor told me I had only six minutes to live, I wouldn't brood. I'd type a little faster.

It has been my philosophy of life that difficulties vanish when faced boldly.

In life, unlike chess, the game continues after checkmate.

Uncertainty that comes from knowledge (knowing what you don't know) is different from uncertainty coming from ignorance.

Having no unusual coincidence is far more unusual than any coincidence could possibly be.

The significant chemicals of living tissue are rickety and unstable, which is exactly what is needed for life.

To all my gentle readers who have treated me with love for over 30 years, I must say farewell. It has always been my ambition to die in harness with my head face down on a keyboard and my nose caught between two of the keys, but that's not the way it worked out. I have had a long and happy life and I have no complaints about the ending, thereof, and so farewell - farewell.

Human beings sometimes find a kind of pleasure in nursing painful emotions, in blaming themselves without reason or even against reason.

Self-education is a continuing source of pleasure to me, for the more I know, the fuller my life is and the better I appreciate my own existence

All life is nucleic acid; the rest is commentary

Life is a journey, but don't worry, you'll find a parking spot at the end.

Life is glorious when it is happy; days are carefree when they are happy; the interplay of thought and imagination is far superior to that of muscle and sinew.

Married life had taught him the futility of arguing with a female in a dark-brown mood.