Life Quotes

"Human nature seeks connection as the plant seeks the sun."

"Become who you are."

"I love those who do not know how to live, except by going under."

"To live is to suffer, to survive is to find some meaning in the suffering."

"Pity is the greatest temptation to life."

"No one can build you the bridge on which you, and only you, must cross the river of life."

"The truth is that there is hardly ever a complete life. There is always something unfinished."

"Life can only be understood backwards; but it must be lived forwards."

"No one ever lived fully in the present unless he accepted his past."

"It is perfectly true, as the philosophers say, that life must be understood backwards. But they forget the other proposition, that it must be lived forwards."

"The most people live in the quiet desperation of their desires."

"Real experience is the work of the whole person."

"Boredom is the root of all evil."

"Every actual existence which is not passionate is meagre."

"The capacity to suffer is the capacity to feel; those who feel most deeply live most fully."

"The art of life is the art of avoiding pain and pursuing pleasure."

"To live is to choose; not to choose is not to live."

"A man who has no free time to dispose of, whose whole life apart from the mere physical necessities is absorbed in his work for the capitalist, is less than half a man"

"The true life of the mind consists in dedicating oneself to useful scientific knowledge."

"Living well means subordinating personal whim to the objective requirements of social welfare."

"The fullness of human life is achieved only through the development of all faculties."

"Life has a value only when it has something valuable as its object."

"Life is a process which results in consciousness."

"Become who you are."

"Enjoy life. This is not a dress rehearsal."

"What does your conscience say?—'You should become the person you are.'"

"The secret of the greatest fruitfulness and the greatest enjoyment of existence is to live dangerously."

"One should ordain one's life in such a way that each day is like a little life."

"I do not believe in the virtue of self-denial."

"Life can only be understood backwards, but it must be lived forwards."