Life Quotes

"The unhappy person is always absent from himself."

"Life is not a problem to be solved, but a reality to be experienced."

"What is it to be a human being? It is to be passionate."

"Pain and pleasure are the sovereign masters that guide us in all our actions."

"Life without struggle is life without meaning."

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

"What is alive is rational; what is dead is irrational."

"In the ordinary affairs of life, we are bound to act on probabilities"

"Life is a puzzle, and we must not be afraid to turn the pieces around"

"The quality of life is determined not by its length but by the depth of its experience."

"The pursuit of happiness is less important than the creation of meaning."

"Habit is the great guide of human life."

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

"The greatest hazard of all, losing oneself, can occur very quietly in the world."

"Real maturity is when a person dies but the person is not asked."

"Life itself is a test; you are always being examined."

"I am not what happened to me. I am what I choose to become."

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

"You must become who you are meant to be."

"Out of the crooked timber of humanity, no straight thing was ever made."

"Live as if you were to die tomorrow. Learn as if you were to live forever."

"An idea can be no more immortal than its bearer."

"Life is the process of becoming."

"Life is the union of being and nothingness."

"Life becomes meaningful through the pursuit of understanding and virtue."

"Custom, then, is the great guide of human life."

"The life of man is of no greater importance to the universe than that of an oyster."

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

"The discord between what we want and what we get is the greatest source of tragedy."

"Life is the negation of negation."