Life Quotes

Collection of phrases and quotes about life.

Jacques-Bénigne Bossuet

Jacques-Bénigne Bossuet

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Human life is like a path whose exit is a horrifying precipice; we are warned about it from the first steps; but the decree has already been pronounced: it is necessary to always move forward without being able to retreat.

Edward George Bulwer-Lytton

Edward George Bulwer-Lytton

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The past is the past. There is a future for all men who repent and have energy.

Samuel Butler

Samuel Butler

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Life is the art of drawing sufficient conclusions from insufficient data.

Pedro Calderón de la Barca

Pedro Calderón de la Barca

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That all life is a dream and dreams are just dreams.

Italo Calvino

Italo Calvino

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Unrealized futures are just branches of the past: dry branches.

Emil Cioran

Emil Cioran

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No matter how disillusioned we may be, it is impossible to live without some hope. We always hold on to one, despite ourselves, and that unconscious hope compensates for all the other explicit hopes we have rejected or exhausted.

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