Life Quotes

"Every person who dies unhappy is conditioned by life."

"Achieving life is not the opposite of refusing to live."

"To live authentically is to continually reinvent oneself."

"Life is not something to be understood but to be lived experimentally."

"We are never finished with ourselves; completion is impossible."

"We are our bodies, and our bodies are fundamentally expressive."

"My body is my general medium for having a world."

"We are always already in the world; we cannot step outside it."

"Sexuality is not a biological fact but an existential reality."

"The body is the subject of perception, not merely its instrument."

"Our emotions are not private events but ways of being in the world."

"To exist is to be situated in a particular context."

"Existence precedes and conditions all essence."

"We do not act in order to live; on the contrary, we live in order to act."

"Every consciousness seeks to perpetuate itself."

"We are born without meaning and must create it ourselves."

"The meaning of life is what we make it to be."

"I can only answer the question 'What am I to do?' if I can answer the prior question 'Of what story or stories do I find myself a part?'"

"To live is not just to perform discrete acts, but to enact a narrative."

"The unity of a human life is the unity of a narrative quest."

"To be human is to be embedded in a narrative that extends beyond oneself."

"The search for the good life is the search for the proper end of human existence."

"A life well-lived is one that has achieved narrative coherence and integrity."

"To be a person is to be engaged in a quest for the good."

"We must not think that by saying yes to life we exclude death; rather, we must say yes to both."

"The self is not a possession; it is a perpetual project."

"The body remembers what the mind forgets."

"To live is to be aware of oneself as incomplete."

"The essence of human experience is embodied."

"Existence precedes essence; we are what we make of ourselves."