Quotes about life
life taken discovery
The realization that life is absurd and cannot be an end, but only a beginning. This is a truth nearly all great minds have taken as their starting point. It is not this discovery that is interesting, but theconsequences and rules of action drawn from it. Albert Camus
life regret thinking
I have never been able, really, to regret anything in all my life. I have always been far much too absorbed in the present moment or the immediate future to think back.
life knowledge thinking
Psychology is action, not thinking about oneself. We continue to shape our personality all our life. To know oneself, one should assert oneself.
life doubt mind
The absurd is a shadow cast over everything we do and even if we try to live life as if it has meaning as if there are reasons for doing things the absurd will linger in the back of our minds as a nagging doubt that perhaps there is no point.
life despair alive
I am alive again, now that I can no longer stand to live.
life creativity power
In fact, other people create for lack of power. I, on the other hand, do not need a work: I live.
life death men
Men die and they are not happy.
life death respect
... it is true that I do not respect [human life] more than I respect my own life. And if it is easy for me to kill, that is because it is difficult for me to die.
life men opposites
The opposite of an idealist is too often a man without love.
life hope coward
He who despairs of the human condition is a coward, but he who has hope for it is a fool.
life mean cities
As a remedy to life in society I would suggest the big city. Nowadays, it is the only desert within our means.
life real weakness
I love life - that’s my real weakness. I love it so much that I am incapable of imagining what is not life.
life want ifs
If something is going to happen to me, I want to be there.
life art freedom
Without freedom, no art; art lives only on the restraints it imposes on itself, and dies of all others.
life boredom existential
The truth is that everyone is bored, and devotes himself to cultivating habits.
life happiness happy
You will never be happy if you continue to search for what happiness consists of. You will never live if you are looking for the meaning of life.
life success humor
For if there is a sin against life, it consists perhaps not so much in despairing of life as in hoping for another life and in eluding the implacable grandeur of this life.
life tragedy easy
Life can be magnificent and overwhelming -- that is the whole tragedy. Without beauty, love, or danger it would almost be easy to live.
life beauty lying
At the heart of all beauty lies something inhuman.
life passion logic
There are crimes of passion and crimes of logic. The boundary between them is not clearly defined.
life courage lying
The only real progress lies in learning to be wrong all alone.
life honesty integrity
A man without ethics is a wild beast loosed upon this world.
life time men
If, after all, men cannot always make history have a meaning, they can always act so that their own lives have one.
life goodness incorrigible
There can be no true goodness, nor true love, without the utmost clear-sightedness.
life despair habit
...the habit of despair is worse than despair itself.
life mother yesterday
Mother died today. Or maybe yesterday; I can't be sure.
life no-hope incumbents
Where there is no hope, it is incumbent on us to invent it.
life rebel existentialism
I rebel; therefore I exist.
life wise wisdom
The need to be right is the sign of a vulgar mind.
life truth party
If absolute truth belongs to anyone in this world, it certainly does not belong to the man or party that claims to possess it.
life world existentialism
I opened myself to the gentle indifference of the world.
life may interest
I may not have been sure about what really did interest me, but I was absolutely sure about what didn't.
life truth atheism
Seeking what is true is not seeking what is desirable.