Quotes about Life

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Living, there is no happiness in that. Living: carrying one's painful self through the world. But being, being is happiness. Being: Becoming a fountain, a fountain on which the universe falls like warm rain. ? Milan Kundera, Immortality (Gardners Books; 1st edition, July 31, 2000) Originally published January 12th 1990.

We can never know what to want, because, living only one life, we can neither compare it with our previous lives nor perfect it in our lived to come.

What happens but once, says the German adage, might as well not have hap-pened at all. If we have only one life to live,we might as well not have lived at all.

At the university she used to be seduced by the dreams of voyages to distant stars. What pleasure to escape far away into the universe, someplace where life expresses itself differently from here and needs no bodies! But despite all his amazing rockets, man will never progress very far in the universe. The brevity of his life makes the sky a dark lid against which he will forever crack his head, to fall back onto earth, where everything alive eats and can be eaten.

I think love is the core emotion. Without that, and I've certainly existed without that, it's a very empty life.

We love and live in power; it is the spirit's end. Mind must subdue; to conquer is its life.

May the culture of life and love render vain the logic of death.

Failures can be God's little whispers (or) a full earthquake in our lives because we didn't listen to the whispers

The only way to remove pain from death is to remove love from life.

Don't be bitter. Everybody suffers. If you can accept your suffering then you will understand other people better. Be grateful for pain. Love life.

No one can help another very much in these crises of life; but love and sympathy count for something.