Quotes About Life

Las relaciones humanas se vuelven progresivamente imposibles, lo cual reduce otro tanto la cantidad de anécdotas de las que se compone una vida. Y poco a poco aparece el rostro de la muerte, en todo su esplendor.

A whore can always turn herself into a good little cook over time.

Das Leben, dachte Michel, müsste eigentlich etwas Einfaches sein; etwas, das man wie eine Aneinanderreihung endlos wiederholter kleiner Rituale erleben kann. Rituale, die etwas albern sein durften, aber an die man trotzdem glauben konnte. Ein Leben ohne große Erwartungen und ohne Dramen.

Life begins at fifty, that's true, inasmuch as it ends at forty.

Men in general don't know how to live: they have no true familiarity with life, and never feel entirely at ease in it, so they pursue different projects, more or less ambitious and more or less grandiose – generally speaking, of course, they fail and reach the conclusion that they would have been better off just living, but as a rule by that point it's too late.

The mere will to live was clearly no match for the pains and aggravations that punctuate the life of the average Western man.

L'absence d'envie de vivre, hélas, ne suffit pas pour avoir envie de mourir.

A source of permanent, accessible pleasure, our genitals exist. The god who created our misfortune, who made us short-lived, vain and cruel, has also provided this form of meagre compensation. If we couldn't have sex from time to time, what would life be? A futile struggle against joints that stiffen, caries that form. All of which, moreover, is as uninteresting as humanly possible - the collagen which makes muscles stiffen, the appearance of microbic cavities in the gums.

Del amor me cuesta hablar. Ahora estoy seguro de que Valérie fue una radiante excepción. Se contaba entre esos seres capaces de dedicar su vida a la felicidad de otra persona, de convertir esa felicidad en su objetivo. Es un fenómeno misterioso. Entraña la dicha, la sencillez y la alegría; pero sigo sin saber por qué o cómo se produce. Y si no he entendido el amor, ¿de qué me serviría entender todo lo demás?

Considérant les événement présent de notre vie, nous oscillons sans cesse entre la croyance au hasard et l'évidence du déterminisme.

În general, oamenii nu È™tiu s? tr?iasc?, nu se pun de acord cu viaÈ›a, nu se simt bine cu adev?rat în aceast? via??, aÈ™a încât ticluiesc diferite proiecte, mai mult sau mai puÈ›in ambiÈ›ioase, mai mult sau mai puÈ›in m?reÈ›e, dup? caz, È™i, de obicei, dau greÈ™, ajungând la concluzia c? ar fi fost mai bine, pur È™i simplu, s? tr?iasc?, dar, tot de obicei, e prea târziu pentru aÈ™a ceva.

Nothing - not even death - seems worse than the prospect of living in a broken body.

Este o senza?ie stranie: s? sim?i cum via?a ?i se schimb? total; e suficient s? stai pe loc, s? nu faci nimic, s? percepi senza?ia de schimbare.

När man älskar livet läser man inte.

Sexual pleasure was not only superior, in refinement and violence, to all the other pleasures life had to offer; it was not only the one pleasure with which there is no collateral damage to the organism, but which on the contrary contributes to maintaining it at its highest level of vitality and strength; it was in truth the sole pleasure, the sole objective of human existence

Et en quoi une vie a-t-elle besoin d'être justifiée ? La totalité des animaux, l'écrasante majorité des hommes vivent sans jamais éprouver le moindre besoin de justification. Ils vivent parce qu'ils vivent et voilà tout, c'est comme ça qu'ils raisonnent ; ensuite je suppose qu'ils meurent parce qu'ils meurent, et que ceci, à leurs yeux, termine l'analyse.

Cand iubirea a disparut, viata devine oarecum conventionala si silnica; pastrezi o forma umana, comportamentele obisnuite, un soi de structura, dar sufletul, cum se spune, e gol.

What could we do, then? We asked ourselves the question while crossing the dunes. Live? It's precisely in this kind of situation that, crushed by the sense of their own insignificance, people decide to have children; this is how the species reproduces, although less and less, it must be said.

For the first time in my life I'd started thinking about God, seriously imagining that there could be a kind of Creator of the universe observing everything I did, and my first reaction was uncomplicated, pure and simple fear.

Happy are those who are satisfied by life, who amuse themselves, who are content.

Elämä ilman lukemista on vaarallista, silloin on pakko tyytyä elämiseen ja siinä on omat riskinsä.

Animals live without feeling the least need of justification, as do the crushing majority of men. They live because they live, and then I suppose they die because they die, and for them that's all there is to it.

Vivre sans lecture c'est dangereux, il faut se contenter de la vie, ça peut amener à prendre des risques.

Les hommes en géneral ne savent pas vivre, ils n'ont aucune vraie familiarité avec la vie, ils ne s'y sentent jamais tout à fait à leur aise, aussi poursuivent-ils différents projets, plus ou moins ambitieux plus ou moins grandioses c'est selon, en géneral bien entendu ils échouent et parviennent à la conclusion qu'ils aurait mieux fait, tout simplement, de vivre, mais en général il est trop tard.