Life Quotes

Collection of phrases and quotes about life.

Emil Cioran

Emil Cioran

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Nature, seeking a formula to satisfy everyone, finally chose death, which, as expected, has satisfied no one.

Emil Cioran

Emil Cioran

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The fact that life has no meaning is a reason to live, the only one, actually.

Emil Cioran

Emil Cioran

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It is not the violent evils that mark us, but the silent, the insistent, the tolerable ones, those that are part of our routine and meticulously undermine us like time.

Emil Cioran

Emil Cioran

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Accepting ourselves as we are: the only way to avoid bitterness. When we 'reject ourselves,' instead of paying for it ourselves, we pay with others, and we only segregate bile.

Emil Cioran

Emil Cioran

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After certain experiences, we should change our name, since we are no longer the same.

Joseph Conrad

Joseph Conrad

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Woe to him whose heart has not learned while young to hope, love, and place trust in life!

Benjamin Constant

Benjamin Constant

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When the age of passions has passed, what else can we desire but to escape from life with the least possible amount of pain?

Pierre Corneille

Pierre Corneille

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Time is a great teacher that fixes many things.

Pierre Corneille

Pierre Corneille

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Every moment of life is a step towards death.

Pierre Corneille

Pierre Corneille

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Although I can barely resist my troubles, I prefer to endure them than to deserve them.

Pierre Corneille

Pierre Corneille

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By talking about our misfortunes, we alleviate them.

Julio Cortázar

Julio Cortázar

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In reality, the truly difficult things are everything that people believe they can do at any moment.