Quotes About Life

To be alive is to be committed." ---Oswald Rivera

This is our purpose: to make as meaningful as possible this life that has been bestowed upon us; to live in such a way that we may be proud of ourselves; to act in such a way that some part of us lives on.

Tension without cosmic pulsation to animate it is the transition to nothingness

That there is, besides a necessity of cause and effect — which I may call the logic of space — another necessity, an organic necessity in life, that of Destiny — the logic of time — is a fact of the deepest inward certainty

By understanding the world I mean being equal to the world. It is the hard reality of living that is the essential, not the concept of life, that the ostrich philosophy of idealism propounds.

You are caught in the current of unceasing change. Your life is a ripple in it. Every moment of your conscious life links the infinite past with the infinite future. Take part in both and you will not find the present empty.

Leben ist Tun und Leiden. Je wissender der Mensch, desto tiefer sein seelisches Leid.

We no longer believe in the power of reason over life. We feel that it is life which dominates reason.

There is no substituting anything else for Life. After Life there is only Death.

Nothing is simpler than to make good poverty of ideas by founding a system, and even a good idea has little value when enunciated by a solemn ass. Only its necessity to life decides the eminence of a doctrine. A doctrine that does not attack and affect the life of the period in its inmost depths is no doctrine and had better not be taught.

El ser se extingue cuando se extingue la voluntad de lucha

The birth of the Ego, and of the world-anxiety with which it is identical, is one of the final secrets of humanity and of mobile life generally. In front of the Microcosm there stands up a Macrocosm wide and overpowering, an abyss of alien, dazzling existence and activity that frightens the small lonely ego back into itself...Over the dawn of the new Culture likewise lay this deathly anxiety.

Why do we have to make such terrible decisions for our whole lives when we are too young to know what we are doing? The big mistakes are hung around your neck and you have to wear them forever.

Wer auf dieser Mühle stirbt, bestimme ich!

Sure, it's going to kill a lot of people, but they may be dying of something else anyway.

paranoid atmosphere that often pervades psychoanalytic institutes and its devastating effect on the "quality of life" in psychoanalytic education. Members

unavoidable repetition of "family life" (with intergenerational conflicts, sibling rivalry, "primal scene" material, etc.)

Some refuse the loan of life to avoid the debt of death.

It seems that life, in order to maintain itself, must revolt every so often against man's ceaseless attempts to master its irrational forces with his mind.

his fate stirs us only because it might have been our own fate ; because the oracle has cursed us prior to our birth, as it did him, [...] our dreams convince us of this truth. (Dream Interpretation: Edipus, by. Freud)

Es posible que nos separemos dentro de poco, que no volvamos a vernos en mucho tiempo. Pero si un día volvemos a reunimos, y recordamos esta noche y las horas que hemos pasado juntos, no habremos perdido "aquello" que nos ha unido. Estaremos más maduros frente a la vida, y podremos volver a unir los hilos que se han roto.

Among the notable things about fire is that it also requires oxygen to burn - exactly like its enemy, life. Thereby are life and flames so often compared.

Woman, in short, has an unconscious life, man a conscious life, and the genius the most conscious life.

I only care for the subjective life; I am very German, you see: The woods interest me, and the world does not.