“For if there is a sin against life, it consists perhaps not so much in despairing of life as in hoping for another life and in eluding the implacable grandeur of this life.”
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“It is normal to give away a little of one's life in order not to lose it all.”
“We don't get a chance to do that many things, and every one should be really excellent. Because this is our life. Life is brief, and then you die, you know? So this is what we've chosen to do with our life.”
“I have found it easier to identify with the characters who verge upon hysteria, who were frightened of life, who were desperate to reach out to another person. But these seemingly fragile people are the strong people really.”
“Sometimes, I feel like one who is on the sidelines, who has missed life itself.”
“Half our life is spent trying to find something to do with the time we have rushed through life trying to save.”
“A bachelor's life is a fine breakfast, a flat lunch, and a miserable dinner.”
“We must declare ourselves, become known allow the world to discover this subterranean life of ours which connects kings and farm boys, artists and clerks. Let them see that the important thing is not the object of love, but the emotion itself.”
“All my life I've looked at words as though I were seeing them for the first time.”
“Love is the greatest refreshment in life.”
“The changes in our life must come from the impossibility to live otherwise than according to the demands of our conscience not from our mental resolution to try a new form of life.”
“As we advance in life we learn the limits of our abilities.”
“It is a common saying, and in everybody's mouth, that life is but a sojourn.”
“The highest use of capital is not to make more money, but to make money do more for the betterment of life.”
“Life is the art of drawing sufficient conclusions from insufficient premises.”
“We love life, not because we are used to living but because we are used to loving.”
“If you are not too long, I will wait here for you all my life.”
“Life is all memory, except for the one present moment that goes by you so quickly you hardly catch it going.”
“Probably the happiest period in life most frequently is in middle age, when the eager passions of youth are cooled, and the infirmities of age not yet begun as we see that the shadows, which are at morning and evening so large, almost entirely disappear at midday.”
“Sometimes I think it would be easier to avoid old age, to die young, but then you'd never complete your life, would you? You'd never wholly know you.”
“Loneliness is my least favorite thing about life. The thing that I'm most worried about is just being alone without anybody to care for or someone who will care for me.”
“Life could be wonderful if people would leave you alone.”
“Unlike a drop of water which loses its identity when it joins the ocean, man does not lose his being in the society in which he lives. Man's life is independent. He is born not for the development of the society alone, but for the development of his self.”
“Love is our true destiny. We do not find the meaning of life by ourselves alone - we find it with another.”