Life Quotes

"The Other's gaze constitutes the self."

"Being is always being-for-the-other."

"To live linguistically is to exist in a realm of meaning that connects us to others and to tradition."

"The most important thing is life, not philosophy."

"Life is about becoming, not being."

"The only authentic experience left is the experience of total meaninglessness."

"It is not that life is a tragedy, but that existence is a comedy in which we are forced to play our parts."

"Life is not made for understanding. It is made for living."

"Life does not live."

"Authentic experience has become nearly impossible in the modern world."

"What is repressed always returns in some form."

"One cannot live without the symbolic order."

"One must separate from the mother to enter language."

"Repetition is not simple recurrence; it is return."

"One cannot escape the symbolic order; one can only navigate it."

"The imaginary makes life tolerable by concealing the real."

"The right to laziness is more important than the right to work."

"A life is made of becomings, not beings."

"Life is not something to be understood in theory, but lived."

"Life is what you make it"

"One does not become fully human painlessly"

"The important thing is not life, but what we do with life"

"I am my own beginning, my own middle and my own end"

"To be born is to be thrown into the world; to exist is to become aware of being thrown"

"Life is absurd, but we must live as if it were not"

"An absurd life is one in which we continue living without ever understanding why."

"To live is the rarest thing in the world. Most people exist, that is all."

"My life has no value unless I can trace paths to something valuable."

"We are dying and we know it, but we live as if we didn't."

"The risk of life is that a man might find out too late that he never lived."