Collection of phrases and quotes about life.
Misfortune reveals to the soul lights that prosperity fails to perceive.
What is man within nature? Nothing compared to the infinite. Everything compared to nothing. An intermediary between nothing and everything.
It is easier to bear death without thinking about it than to bear the thought of death.
Man is naturally credulous, incredulous; timid, reckless.
Description of man: dependency, desire for independence, necessity.
Know that man infinitely surpasses man.
The best of life is the past, the present, and the future.
Life is a pile of insignificant and ironic ruins.
I devour my existence with an insatiable appetite. How all this will end, I do not know.
The future will come from a long pain and a long silence.
But the great, the tremendous truth is this: suffering is useless.
It's true that by suffering you can learn many things. The bad thing is that having suffered, we have lost the strength to make use of them.