- Nov 07, 2020
Life Quotes
Quotes on the meaning found in life.
Life quotes on this page range widely - from lifelong searches for spiritual meaning and questions about religious definitions of sin, to the more ordinary scene of people debating life's big problems over drinks. That range mirrors related pages like Life Status.
- Last Updated on May 30, 2021
- Good Thing
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- Nov 07, 2020
Romantic love, or sex, is the only good thing in a life that is being lived in a dark way.
- History
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- Nov 07, 2020
If you read the history of the national Socialist party, they're all people who felt like life should have been better to them. They're disappointed, vengeful, angry.
- Life Changes
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- Nov 07, 2020
When you move a border, suddenly life changes violently. I write about nationality.
- Nov 07, 2020
I could not spend the rest of my life sitting in Brazil writing down who called whom uncle and aunt.
- Experience
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- Nov 07, 2020
I had the experience of a monk copying documents, applying myself assiduously to my work. And I thought whatever happened, happened - this is just what I do in my life.
- Care
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- Nov 07, 2020
Pick up any newspaper or magazine, open the TV, and you'll be bombarded with suggestions of how to have a successful life. Some of these suggestions are deeply unhelpful to our own projects and priorities - and we should take care.
- Marriage
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- Nov 07, 2020
You will often be in despair. You will sometimes think it's the worst decision in your life. That's fine. That's not a sign your marriage has gone wrong. It's a sign that it's normal; it's on track. And many of the hopes that took you into the marriage will have to die in order for the marriage to continue.
- Me
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- Nov 07, 2020
The number one person who needs my books is me. I'm not some sort of disinterested guru who has worked life out and is handing things out to the poor people who might not have life worked out.
- Argument
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- Nov 07, 2020
What I do know from my life is the phenomenon of saying, 'This is too small a thing to argue about', but then nevertheless finding oneself in that argument.
- Argument
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- Nov 07, 2020
What I do know from my life is the phenomenon of saying, 'This is too small a thing to argue about', but then nevertheless finding oneself in that argument.
- Challenges
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- Nov 07, 2020
Emotional life is - alongside work - one of the great challenges of existence and is a theme that I keep returning to.
- Change
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- Nov 07, 2020
The idea of a book that can make a change to your life, that can affect your perspective, is a beautiful and great ambition: one that Seneca, Nietzsche and Tolstoy would have sympathised with.
- Love
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- Nov 07, 2020
I fell in love with Norman Mailer's 'Of a Fire on the Moon', a description of the 1969 moon landing and the society that had produced NASA - and was inspired by him to begin a kind of anthropology of modern life.
- Me
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- Nov 07, 2020
I guess my overall life plan is to think about issues that concern me and try to use culture generally to make sense of them. I'm more worried that I'm going to die before I've had time.
- Most
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- Nov 07, 2020
What annoys me about most self-help books is that they have no tragic sense. They have no sense that life is fundamentally incomplete rather than accidentally incomplete.
- Marriage
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- Nov 07, 2020