#los

One can be certain that every generally held idea, every received notion, will be an idiocy, because it has been able to appeal to a majority. ↗

— Nicolas Chamfort

#status-anxiety #life

Our life is a hope which is continually converting itself into memory and memory in its turn begets hope. ↗

— Miguel de Unamuno

#philosophy #life

I tried to make my life colorful with basic colors Red, Green and Blue....... ohh god... my perfection in blending made it white !!! now again confused…. should go with :( or :) ↗

— Saket Assertive

#emotion #life #philosophy #life

Mrs. Tulliver had lived thirteen years with her husband, yet she retained in all the freshness of her early married life a facility of saying things which drove him in the opposite direction to the one she desired. Some minds are wonderful for keeping their bloom in this way, as a patriarchal gold-fish apparently retains to the last its youthful illusion that it can swim in a straight line beyond the encircling glass. ↗

— George Eliot

#life

Oh, life, life!" Bastidas complained, sipping his drink. "What is life? A little flame at the tip of a candle, exposed to a strong wind. ↗

— Julio Ramón Ribeyro

#life

We are all but recent leaves on the same old tree of life and there is no real difference between the grass and the man who mows it. ↗

— Albert von Szent-Györgyi

#philosophical #life

There are so many simple things getting unnoticed in me, it makes me feel I am a robot! ↗

— Vikram Roy

#modern-life #philosophy #philosophy-of-life #life

Nadie parece haber caído en cuenta de que si la existencia es absurda, lograr en ella un éxito brillante no tiene más valor que fracasar por completo. ↗

— Muriel Barbery

#philosophy-of-life #life

All I'm trying to say is that if you're not willing to observe this, if you're just going to condemn it, you're never going to see it. It's there, whether you like it or not. This is stupid life-force we're dealing with here," he said. "Think how old it is, Jim. Think how huge it is. Understanding it doesn't make any difference. ↗

— Jim Paul

#philosophy #life

Whatever happened after, even the loss, my life would be less if I had not had that. On the day I die, my only regret would be if I hadn't had it. If I had been too much a coward to take it while I had a chance. ↗

— Amelia C. Gormley

#life