Quotes About Life

What is "rational" consists in prolonging life, avoiding pain, satisfying the appetite for hunger and sex. Only some such definition sheds any light on the discourse of the last centuries.

Hâtons-nous; le temps fuit et nous traîne avec soi: Le moment où je parle est déjà loin de moi.

Time flies and draws us with it. The moment in which I am speaking is already far from me.

In the end, the bedrock of existence is not made up of the family, or work, or what others say or think of you, but of moments like this when you are exalted by a transcendent power that is more serene than love. Life dispenses them parsimoniously; our feeble hearts could not stand more.

That day, I really believed that I had grasped something and that henceforth my life would be changed. But insights cannot be held for ever. Like water, the world ripples across you and for a while you take on its colours. Then it recedes, and leaves you face to face with the void you carry inside yourself, confronting that central inadequacy of soul which you must learn to rub shoulders with and to combat, and which, paradoxically, may be our surest impetus.

That day, I thought that I held something important and that my life would be changed. But nothing of this nature is acquired definitively. Like water, the world traverses you, and for a while, lends you its colours. It then draws back, leaving you once again to face the emptiness that one carries in oneself, to face that central insufficiency of the spirit that one must learn to live with, to fight, and which, paradoxically, is possibly our surest driving force.

The over-ripe, golden autumn which had taken hold of the town tugged at our heartstrings. The nomadic life makes you sensitive to the seasons: you rely on them, even become part of the season itself, and each time they change, it seems to have to tear yourself away from a place where you have learned to live.

Finalement, ce qui constitue l'ossature de l'existence, ce n'est ni la famille, ni la carrière, ni ce que d'autres diront ou penseront de vous, mais quelques instants de cette nature, soulevés par une lévitation plus sereine encore que celle de l'amour, et que la vie nous distribue avec une parcimonie à la mesure de notre faible cœur.

Ce n'est jamais la vie qui décline, mais seulement l'idée qu'on parvient à s'en faire.

And so I leave this world, where the heart must either break or turn to lead.

In order not to find life unbearable, you must accept two things: the ravages of time and the injustices of man.

Living is a sickness to which sleep provides relief every sixteen hours. It's a palliative. The remedy is death.

It is passion that makes man live; wisdom makes one only last.

We ought to be able to combine opposites: the love of goodness with indifference to other people's opinions, a liking for work with indifference to fame, concern for our health with indifference to life.

Contemplation often makes life miserable. We should act more, think less, and stop watching ourselves live.

There are some things I guess we bury so we can get on with living. I don't think it's wrong, necessarily, just what we do to survive. It's the remembering part that's hard. Some people remember and some never have to. The blessed and the cursed.

Giving birth was easier than having a tattoo.

cela m'excite de penser à tout ce qui fuit dans la vie au nom de la vie.

all adventures involving knowledge and imagination. When Marielle drives crosstown from east to west along Sherbrooke Street in her old Plymouth, aka 'Violet,' it is 'a carousel of history and geography,' it is about straddling grammar and going off to explore the inner recesses of the images and life irrigating the brain.

You're either going to walk through life and experience it fully or you're going to be a voyeur. And I'm not a voyeur.

Even from a very early age, I knew I didn't want to miss out on anything life had to offer just because it might be considered dangerous.

The truth is the thing I invented so I could live.

ONE THING I AM NEVER GOING TO DO WHEN I GROW UP Is fall in love, drop out of college, learn to subsist on water and air, have a species named after me, and ruin my life.

An inch of gold can't buy an inch of time