Life Quotes

"Most people live lives of quiet desperation, never truly awakening."

"A life lived for others is a life lived authentically."

"To live authentically is to live in perpetual conflict with convention."

"The only thing I am is not a writer but an event."

"The life of the mind requires freedom from desperation."

"The great object of the art of life is the avoidance of pain."

"Let them eat well; let them drink well; let them sleep well; and let them be well clothed."

"To do nothing is to not live, but merely to exist."

"The purpose of life is not merely to exist, but to achieve something of value."

"Human nature is not something given once and for all, but constantly develops."

"One cannot have cultural life without certain material preconditions being satisfied."

"Life is not to be successfully pursued on a comfortable materialism."

"Complete lives require a broad range of human capabilities to flourish fully."

"The needs of the living are greater than the ambitions of the dead."

"We become ourselves only through the internalization of external forces, through disciplinary regimes we mistake for identity."

"The subject that speaks cannot be separated from the systems of discourse through which it becomes speakable."

"The sanctity of human life is the foundation of all morality."

"The great art of life is sensation, to feel that we exist."

"Life is too short to be small."

"The heart of man is very much like the sea, it has its storms, it has its tides and in its depths it has its pearls too."

"Life itself is the most wonderful fairy tale."

"Human nature is not a machine to be built after a model, and set to do exactly the work prescribed for it."

"The development of individuality is one of the essential ingredients of well-being."

"Life itself is a fleeting and momentary thing; but it is not the less glorious."

"To live is to choose between pains; happiness is choosing the lesser pain."

"Happiness is not a destination but a direction of travel."

"Every man is the architect of his own happiness or misery."

"Life is composed but of trifles."

"Sorrow is part of the human condition."

"Life is a process by which matter becomes spirit and returns to matter again."