Posted by: Silvana Stremiz
in Quotes & Aphorisms (Life)
We do not know what we want and yet we are responsible for what we are: that is the fact.
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We do not know what we want and yet we are responsible for what we are: that is the fact.
Every luxury must be paid for, and everything is a luxury, starting with being in this world.
There is an infity of ways of committing suicide without dying.
It's wonderful to fight with persuasion, embracing life and living passionately. Losing elegantly and winning daringly.
But men must know that in this theater of man's life it is reserved only for God and angels to be lookers on.
A beautiful and amiable illusion is that for which the days, annniversaries of an occurrence, that in truth have nothing more than any other day of the year, seem to have with that a particular connection, and that almost a shadow from the past may revive and return in those days, and stand before us.
Mark how fleeting and paltry is the estate of man - yesterday in embryo, tomorrow a mummy or ashes. So for the hairsbreadth of time assigned to thee, live rationally, and part with life cheerfully, as drops the ripe olive, extolling the season that bore it and the tree that matured it.
Genius moves within folly, in the sense that is kept afloat there where the madman drowns.
Life is what happens when you're busy making other plans.
There's no hope without fear, or fear without hope.