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
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"You cannot create experience. You must undergo it."
Albert Camus
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"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
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"That's all I need to say. The world is absurd and human beings are precious."
Albert Camus
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"The only thing that makes life possible is permanent, intolerable uncertainty; without it there is only numbness."
Albert Camus
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"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
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"The privilege of a lifetime is to become who you truly are."
Simone de Beauvoir
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"No one wants to die. Even people who want to go to heaven don't want to die to get there."
Simone de Beauvoir
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"Do not forget to live."
Simone de Beauvoir
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"One cannot be deeply responsive to the world without being saddened very often."
Anatole France
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"The miracle is not to walk on water. The miracle is to walk on green earth in the present moment."
Anatole France
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"The web of our life is of a mingled yarn, good and ill together."
Anatole France
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"Every one desires to live long, but no one wishes to be old."
Anatole France
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"Pleasure and business are not so opposed as some imagine."
Montesquieu
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"Life is nothing until it is lived; but it is yours to make, so get to it"
Jean-Paul Sartre
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"I am my choices"
Jean-Paul Sartre
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"Every consciousness seeks to perpetuate itself"
Jean-Paul Sartre
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"The value of a man resides in what he gives, not in what he is capable of receiving"
Jean-Paul Sartre
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"A man without passion is not a man"
Jean-Paul Sartre
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"A man is a sum of his actions"
Jean-Paul Sartre
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"The creature that has never wept is not ourselves."
Marcel Proust
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"The real life is the one we do not lead."
Marcel Proust
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"We live for but a second in the eyes of eternity."
Marcel Proust
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"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