Life Quotes

War is not courtesy but the most horrible thing in life; and we ought to understand that, and not play at war. We ought to accept this terrible necessity sternly and seriously. It all lies in that: get rid of falsehood and let war be war and not a game.

What time can be more beautiful when the one in which the finest virtues, innocent cheerfulness and indefinable longing for love constitute the sole motives of your life.

Every heart has its own skeletons.

A new conception of life cannot be imposed on men; it can only be freely assimilated. And it can only be freely assimilated in two ways: onespiritual and internal, the other experimental and external.

War is not a polite recreation but the vilest thing in life, and we ought to understand that and not play at war.

The true office of any faith is to give life a meaning which death cannot destroy.

Drama, instead of telling us the whole of a man's life, must place him in such a situation, tie such a knot, that when it is untied, the whole man is visible.

Loving the same man or woman all your life, why, that's like supposing the same candle could last you all your life

The only absolute knowledge attainable by man is that life is meaningless.

The purpose of life is to bring forth goodness. Now, in this life.

To know God and to live is the same thing. God is Life.

Progress consists only in the greater clarification of answers to the basic questions of life.

Just when the question of how to live had become clearer to him, a new insoluble problem presented itself - Death.

The goal of our life should not be to find joy in marriage, but to bring more love and truth into the world.

For if we allow that human life is always guided by reason, we destroy the premise that life is possible at all.

All the variety, all the charm, all the beauty of life is made up of light and shadow.

Life consists in penetrating the unknown, and fashioning our actions in accord with the new knowledge thus acquired.

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.

Pure and complete sorrow is as impossible as pure and complete joy.

In spite of everything life is not without hope.