Life Quotes

Collection of phrases and quotes about life.

Blaise Pascal

Blaise Pascal

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Misfortune reveals to the soul lights that prosperity fails to perceive.

Blaise Pascal

Blaise Pascal

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What is man within nature? Nothing compared to the infinite. Everything compared to nothing. An intermediary between nothing and everything.

Blaise Pascal

Blaise Pascal

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It is easier to bear death without thinking about it than to bear the thought of death.

Blaise Pascal

Blaise Pascal

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Man is naturally credulous, incredulous; timid, reckless.

Blaise Pascal

Blaise Pascal

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Description of man: dependency, desire for independence, necessity.

Pier Paolo Pasolini

Pier Paolo Pasolini

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The best of life is the past, the present, and the future.

Pier Paolo Pasolini

Pier Paolo Pasolini

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Life is a pile of insignificant and ironic ruins.

Pier Paolo Pasolini

Pier Paolo Pasolini

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I devour my existence with an insatiable appetite. How all this will end, I do not know.

Cesare Pavese

Cesare Pavese

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The future will come from a long pain and a long silence.

Cesare Pavese

Cesare Pavese

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But the great, the tremendous truth is this: suffering is useless.

Cesare Pavese

Cesare Pavese

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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.