Quotes About Life

Life is the sum of all your choices.

The most important thing you do everyday you live is deciding not to kill yourself.

We get into the habit of living before acquiring the habit of thinking. In that race which daily hastens us towards death, the body maintains its irreparable lead.

There is not love of life without despair about life.

You cannot create experience. You must undergo it.

Without freedom, no art art lives only on the restraints it imposes on itself, and dies of all others.

You can't create experience, you undergo it.

Should I kill myself, or have a cup of coffee?

What is called a reason for living is also an excellent reason for dying.

Live to the point of tears.

Men must live and create. Live to the point of tears.

The absurd is the essential concept and the first truth.

I'll tell you a big secret, my friend: Don't wait for the Last Judgment. It happens every day.

Don't wait for the Last Judgment. It happens every day.

It is normal to give away a little of one's life in order not to lose it all.

To live is in itself a value judgment. To breathe is to judge.

Man wants to live, but it is useless to hope that this desire will dictate all his actions.

Man is an idea, and a precious small idea once he turns his back on love.

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.

I would rather live my life as if there is a God and die to find out there isn't, than live my life as if there isn't and die to find out there is.

But what is happiness except the simple harmony between a man and the life he leads.

The absurd is born of the confrontation between the human call and the unreasonable silence of the world.

The aim of art, the aim of a life can only be to increase the sum of freedom and responsibility to be found in every man and in the world. It cannot, under any circumstances, be to reduce or suppress that freedom, even temporarily. No great work has ever been based on hatred and contempt. On the contrary, there is not a single true work of art that has not in the end added to the inner freedom of each person who has known and loved it.

There is but one truly serious philosophical problem...