Mother used to say that however miserable one is, there’s always something to be thankful for. And each morning, when the sky brightened and light began to flood my cell, I agreed with her.
— The Stranger
Quotes About Life
But perhaps it is always so, that men form their conceptions from fictitious, conventional types, and then—all the combinations made—they are tired of the fictitious figures and begin to invent more natural, true figures.
— Anna Karenina
Don't think you can frighten me by telling me that I am alone. France is alone. God is alone. And the loneliness of God is His strength.
— Saint Joan
So long as human beings stay human, death and life are the same thing.
— 1984
Everyone should be respected as an individual, but no one idolized.
— Einstein on Politics: His Private Thoughts and Public Stands on Nationalism, Zionism, War, Peace and the Bomb
Then hope unlooked-for came so suddenly to Eomer's heart, and with it the bite of care and fear renewed, that he said no more, but turned and went swiftly from the hall.
— The Return of the King
How well you express it! That is exactly the curse of a politician's life. He has to bow to the country's feeling, however dangerous and foolhardy he knows it to be.
— Murder in the Mews
You've never lived what you are thinking, and that isn't good. Only the ideas we actually live are of any value.
— Demian. Die Geschichte von Emil Sinclairs Jugend
Nothing can be compared to the new life that the discovery of another country provides for a thoughtful person. Although I am still the same I believe to have changed to the bones.
— Italian Journey
The object of life is not to be on the side of the majority, but to escape finding oneself in the ranks of the insane.
— Meditations
One could be happy not only without love, but despite it.
— Love in the Time of Cholera
Under heaven all can see beauty as beauty only because there is ugliness. All can know good as good only because there is evil.
— Tao Te Ching
I never could bear the idea of anyone's expecting something from me. Italways made me want to do just the opposite.
— No Exit
I do not cling to life sufficiently to fear death.
— The Three Musketeers
All those minds that are interested in finding out the truth communicate with each other across the distances of space and time. I, too, was taking part in the effort which humanity makes to know.
— Memoirs of a Dutiful Daughter
Work, love, courage and hope, Make me good and help me cope!
— The Diary of a Young Girl
Now I had won the gold medal. But it didn't mean anything, because I didn't have the right color skin.
— The Soul of a Butterfly: Reflections on Life's Journey
A person's rightful due is to be treated as an object of love, not as an object for use.
— Love and Responsibility
Oh threats of Hell and Hopes of Par
— Rubaiyat of Omar Khayyam
But these are small troubles, people will say. Yes, but they are drops which wear hollows in the rock.
— The Fairy Tale of My Life: An Autobiography
Well-meaning, helpful, good-natured attitudes of mind have not come to be honored on account of their usefulness, but because they are states of richer souls that are capable of bestowing and have their value in the feeling of the plenitude of life.
— The Will to Power
A bend in the road is not the end of the road…Unless you fail to make the turn.
If you live each day as it was your last, someday you'll most certainly be right
All our knowledge has its origin in our perceptions