Quotes about Life

He found himself understanding the wearisomeness of this life, where every path was an improvisation and a considerable part of one's waking life was spent watching one's feet.

Life isn't fair, it's just fairer than death, that's all.

The art of life is to know how to enjoy a little and to endure very much.

Man lives by habits indeed, but what he lives for is thrill and excitements. ... From time immemorial war has been ... the supremely thrilling excitement.

The best argument I know for an immortal life is the existence of a man who deserves one.

There is an organic affinity between joyousness and tenderness, and their companionship in the saintly life need in no way occasion surprise.

Man lives for science as well as bread.

Human beings are born into this little span of life of which the best thing is its friendship and intimacies, and soon their places will know them no more, and yet they leave their friendships and intimacies with no cultivation, to grow as they will by the roadside, expecting them to "keep" by force of inertia.

The greatest discovery of my generation is that a human being can alter his life by altering his attitudes of mind.

As the French existentialist Jean-Paul Sartre observed, several hours or several years make no difference once you have lost eternity.

The point is this: if God does not exist, then life is objectively meaningless; but man cannot live consistently and happily knowing that life is meaningless; so in order to be happy he pretends that life has meaning.

there is no God, then life itself becomes meaningless. Man and the universe are without ultimate significance.