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"In three words I can sum up everything I've learned about life: it goes on."
— Robert Frost

tags: life
6,880 people liked it

"Hell is other people."
— Jean-Paul Sartre (No Exit: A Play in One Act)

tags: hell, people
122 people liked it

"Man is condemned to be free; because once thrown into the world, he is responsible for everything he does.
It is up to you to give [life] a meaning."
— Jean-Paul Sartre

tags: freedom, life
106 people liked it

"If you are lonely when you're alone, you are in bad company. "
— -Jean-Paul Sartre

61 people liked it

"There is only one day left, always starting over: It is given to us at dawn and taken away from us at dusk."
— Jean-Paul Sartre

tags: carpe-diem, inspirational
7 people liked it

"Man is not the sum of what he has already, but rather the sum of what he does not yet have, of what he could have.
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— Jean-Paul Sartre

tags: inspirational
6 people liked it

"That which does not kill us makes us stronger."
— Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche

tags: strength
5,157 people liked it

"You have your way. I have my way. As for the right way, the correct way, and the only way, it does not exist."
— Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche

tags: amorality, correct-way, individuality, my-way, only-way, right-way, the-way, your-way
402 people liked it

"Whoever fights monsters should see to it that in the process he does not become a monster. And if you gaze long enough into an abyss, the abyss will gaze back into you."
— Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche

tags: corruption, dark, fighting, monsters, side, soul
354 people liked it

"He who has a why to live for can bear almost any how."
— Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche

tags: how, life, purpose, questioning, questions, why
164 people liked it

"We are all in the gutter, but some of us are looking at the stars."
— Oscar Wilde (Lady Windermere's Fan)

tags: inspirational, optimism, perception, pessimism
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"To live is the rarest thing in the world. Most people exist, that is all."
— Oscar Wilde

tags: life
4,135 people liked it

"A cynic is a man who knows the price of everything, and the value of nothing."
— Oscar Wilde

tags: cynicism
560 people liked it

"Remorse.-- Never yield to remorse, but at once tell yourself: remorse would simply mean adding to the first act of stupidity a second."
— Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche

55 people liked it

"Time is the longest distance between two places"
— Tennessee Williams

tags: distance, time
32 people liked it

"We all live in a house on fire, no fire department to call; no way out, just the upstairs window to look out of while the fire burns the house down with us trapped, locked in it."
— Tennessee Williams

11 people liked it

"A high station in life is earned by the gallantry with which appalling experiences are survived with grace."
— Tennessee Williams

8 people liked it

"Blessed are the forgetful, for they get the better even of their blunders."
— Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche

tags: bless, blessed, blunders, forget, forgetful, friedrich, memory, nietzsche
36 people liked it

"Thoughts are the shadows of our feelings - always darker, emptier and simpler."
— Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche

21 people liked it

"Love is a state in which a man sees things most decidedly as they are not."
— Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche

tags: love
20 people liked it

"There are no beautiful surfaces without a terrible depth."
— Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche

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"All truly great thoughts are conceived while walking."
— Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche

tags: exercise, intelligence, thinking, walking
22 people liked it

"…I believe in Spinoza's God, who reveals Himself in the lawful harmony of the world, not in a God who concerns Himself with the fate and the doings of mankind...

to Rabbi Herbert Goldstein (1929)"
— Albert Einstein

8 people liked it

"Emotion, which is suffering, ceases to be suffering as soon as we form a clear and precise picture of it."
— Baruch Spinoza

4 people liked it

"The highest activity a human being can attain is learning for understanding, because to understand is to be free."
— Benedictus de Spinoza

3 people liked it

"I see it all perfectly; there are two possible situations — one can either do this or that. My honest opinion and my friendly advice is this: do it or do not do it — you will regret both."
— Søren Kierkegaard

tags: life
39 people liked it

"One must not think slightingly of the paradoxical…for the paradox is the source of the thinker’s passion, and the thinker without a paradox is like a lover without feeling: a paltry mediocrity."
— Søren Kierkegaard

tags: paradox
9 people liked it

"It is better to fail in originality than to succeed in imitation."
— Herman Melville

tags: success
17 people liked it

"A smile is the chosen vehicle of all ambiguities. "
— Herman Melville

8 people liked it

"There are certain queer times and occasions in this strange mixed affair we call life when a man takes this whole universe for a vast practical joke, though the wit thereof he but dimly discerns, and more than suspects that the joke is at nobody's expense but his own."
— Herman Melville (Moby-Dick: or, The Whale)

10 people liked it

"Life must be understood backwards; but... it must be lived forward."
— Søren Kierkegaard

3 people liked it

"No sympathy for the devil; keep that in mind. Buy the ticket, take the ride...and if it occasionally gets a little heavier than what you had in mind, well...maybe chalk it off to forced conscious expansion: Tune in, freak out, get beaten."
— Hunter S. Thompson

tags: life
186 people liked it

"When the going gets weird the weird turn pro."
— Hunter S. Thompson

175 people liked it

"Some may never live, but the crazy never die."
— Hunter S. Thompson

126 people liked it

"THE EDGE, there is no honest way to explain it because the only people who really know where it is are the ones who have gone over"
— Hunter S. Thompson

105 people liked it

"So we shall let the reader answer this question for himself: who is the happier man, he who has braved the storm of life and lived or he who has stayed securely on shore and merely existed?"
— Hunter S. Thompson

tags: gonzo, happiness, risk
110 people liked it

"We can't stop here, this is bat country!"
— Hunter S. Thompson

89 people liked it

"There he goes. One of God s own prototypes. Some kind of high powered mutant never even considered for mass production. Too weird to live and too rare to die."
— Hunter S. Thompson

85 people liked it

"Let us toast to animal pleasures, to escapism, to rain on the roof and instant coffee, to unemployment insurance and library cards, to absinthe and good-hearted landlords, to music and warm bodies and contraceptives... and to the "good life", whatever it is and wherever it happens to be."
— Hunter S. Thompson (Proud Highway:, The: Saga of a Desperate Southern Gentleman)

84 people liked it

"Life should not be a journey to the grave with the intention of arriving safely in a pretty and well preserved body, but rather to skid in broadside in a cloud of smoke, thoroughly used up, totally worn out, and loudly proclaiming "Wow! What a Ride!'"
— Hunter S. Thompson

78 people liked it

"Life has become immeasurably better since I have been forced to stop taking it seriously."
— Hunter S. Thompson

tags: life
71 people liked it

"It was obvious that he was a man who marched through life to the rhythms of some drum I would never hear."
— Hunter S. Thompson (Hell's Angels)

46 people liked it

"An ounce of action is worth a ton of theory."
— Friedrich Engels

5 people liked it

"One is not born, but rather becomes, a woman."
— Simone de Beauvoir (The Second Sex)

34 people liked it

"In itself, homosexuality is as limiting as heterosexuality: the ideal should be to be capable of loving a woman or a man; either, a human being, without feeling fear, restraint, or obligation."
— Simone de Beauvoir

18 people liked it

"It is in the knowledge of the genuine conditions of our lives that we must draw our strength to live and our reasons for living."
— Simone de Beauvoir

tags: inspirational
15 people liked it

"One's life has value so long as one attributes value to the life of others."
— Simone de Beauvoir

14 people liked it

"I am incapable of conceiving infinity and yet I do not accept finity."
— Simone de Beauvoir

12 people liked it

"I tore myself away from the safe comfort of certainties through my love for truth - and truth rewarded me."
— Simone de Beauvoir

5 people liked it

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