Life Quotes
The big one. What it means, how to live it, and why it's worth the effort.
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"To live without appeal is to live in the absurd."Albert Camus
"You cannot create experience. You must undergo it."Albert Camus
"I like living. I have sometimes been wildly, despairingly, acutely miserable, racked with sorrow, but through it all still I still love life."Albert Camus
"That's all I need to say. The world is absurd and human beings are precious."Albert Camus
"The only thing that makes life possible is permanent, intolerable uncertainty; without it there is only numbness."Albert Camus
"The only real problem is how one can be content to live."Albert Camus
"I love life. I have loved it with all my heart, even in its trials and sorrows."Romain Rolland
"The purpose of life is to grow; to learn, to love, and to leave the world better than we found it."Romain Rolland
"The privilege of a lifetime is to become who you truly are."Simone de Beauvoir
"No one wants to die. Even people who want to go to heaven don't want to die to get there."Simone de Beauvoir
"Do not forget to live."Simone de Beauvoir
"One cannot be deeply responsive to the world without being saddened very often."Anatole France
"The miracle is not to walk on water. The miracle is to walk on green earth in the present moment."Anatole France
"The web of our life is of a mingled yarn, good and ill together."Anatole France
"Every one desires to live long, but no one wishes to be old."Anatole France
"Pleasure and business are not so opposed as some imagine."Montesquieu
"Life is nothing until it is lived; but it is yours to make, so get to it"Jean-Paul Sartre
"I am my choices"Jean-Paul Sartre
"Every consciousness seeks to perpetuate itself"Jean-Paul Sartre
"The value of a man resides in what he gives, not in what he is capable of receiving"Jean-Paul Sartre
"A man without passion is not a man"Jean-Paul Sartre
"A man is a sum of his actions"Jean-Paul Sartre
"The creature that has never wept is not ourselves."Marcel Proust
"The real life is the one we do not lead."Marcel Proust
"We live for but a second in the eyes of eternity."Marcel Proust
"Life is a succession of moments we do not live."Marcel Proust
"Life is the art of drawing sufficient conclusions from insufficient premises."Romain Rolland
"Every human being is a universe unto themselves."Romain Rolland
"Do not wait for life. Do not long for it. It is here. This is it."André Gide
"Man's heart is like the sea; it has its storms, it has its tides, and in its depths it has many precious things."André Gide