Quotes about Life

To travel is to be born and to die at every instant;

The supreme happiness of life consists in the conviction that one is loved; loved for one's own sake... loved in spite of one's self.

Happiness and despair do not breathe the same air. A man in despair participates in the life of others from a great distance; he is almost unaware of their presence; he has lost any consciousness of his own existence; he is a thing of flesh and blood but feels that he is no longer real; he sees himself only as a dream.

Let us have compassion on the chastised. Alas! Who are we ourselves? Who am I who now address you? Who are you who are listening to me? And are you very sure that we have done nothing before we were born? The earth is not devoid of resemblance to a jail. Who knows whether man is not a recaptured offender against divine justice? Look closely at life. It is so made, that everywhere we feel the sense of punishment.

He sleeps. Although his fate was very strange, He lived. He died when he had no longer his angel. The thing came to pass simply, of itself, As the night comes when day is gone. a

This book is a drama whose first character is the Infinite. Man is the second.

The supreme happiness of life consists in the conviction that one is loved; loved for one's own sake—let us say rather, loved in spite of one's self; t

The supreme happiness of life is the conviction that we are loved

The greatest happiness of life is the conviction that we are loved.

Monsieur Mayor," said the bishop, "that is just it. I am not in the world to care for my life, but for souls.

Man lives by affirmation even more than by bread.

Tiger got to hunt, bird got to fly; Man got to sit and wonder 'why, why, why?' Tiger got to sleep, bird got to land; Man got to tell himself he understand.