Life Quotes

Collection of phrases and quotes about life.

Joseph Conrad

Joseph Conrad

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The belief in some kind of supernatural evil is not necessary. Men alone are capable of any evil.

Joseph Conrad

Joseph Conrad

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Life is a farce: that mysterious arrangement of relentless logic for a futile purpose. The most one can expect from it is a certain self-knowledge, which comes too late, and a harvest of unquenchable regrets.

Cristina II

Cristina II

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Life is a traffic where losses and gains are balanced.

Aeschylus of Eleusis

Aeschylus of Eleusis

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Not even sitting by the fire in his home can man escape the sentence of his destiny.

Edmund Husserl

Edmund Husserl

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The world is born within us, as Descartes made us recognize, and within us it acquires its habitual influence.

Edmund Husserl

Edmund Husserl

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The judgment, the evaluation, the pretension, are not empty experiences that consciousness has, but experiences composed of an intentional stream

Jean Paul

Jean Paul

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The memory is the only paradise from which we cannot be expelled.

Robert Kennedy

Robert Kennedy

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Every time a man defends an ideal, acts to improve the fate of others, or fights against an injustice, he transmits a tiny wave of hope.

Enrique Múgica Herzog

Enrique Múgica Herzog

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Longing is the path to becoming a pillar of salt.

Haruki Murakami

Haruki Murakami

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When one gets used to never getting what they want, you know what happens? They end up not even knowing what they want.

Haruki Murakami

Haruki Murakami

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Even if you manage to hide the memories, or bury them deep down, you cannot erase history. History cannot be erased or altered. Because it would mean killing yourself.

José Ortega y Gasset

José Ortega y Gasset

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We are not shot into existence like a rifle bullet with a completely determined trajectory. It is false to say that what determines us are the circumstances. On the contrary, the circumstances are the dilemma in front of which we have to make a decision. But it is our character that decides.