Jean-Paul Sartre

• "One always dies too soon or too late. And yet, life is there, finished: the line is drawn, and it must all be added up. You are nothing other than your life."
  
• "Only the guy who isn't rowing has time to rock the boat."
  
• "I confused things with their names: that is belief."
  
• "I say a murder is abstract. You pull the trigger and after that you do not understand anything that happens."
  
• "Every existing thing is born without reason, prolongs itself out of weakness, and dies by chance."
  
• "Existence precedes and rules essence."
  
• "If literature isn't everything, it's not worth a single hour of someone's trouble."
  
• "If you are lonely when you're alone, you are in bad company."
  
• "Life begins on the other side of despair."
  
• "There are two types of poor people, those who are poor together and those who are poor alone. The first are the true poor, the others are rich people out of luck."
  
• "There is only one day left, always starting over: it is given to us at dawn and taken away from us at dusk."
  
• "Three o'clock is always too late or too early for anything you want to do."
  
• "We do not judge the people we love."
  
• "We must act out passion before we can feel it."
  
• "When the rich wage war, it's the poor who die."
  
• "Words are loaded pistols.
  
• "Everything has been figured out, except how to live."
  
• "Freedom is what you do with what's been done to you."
  
• "Hell is other people."
  
• "God is absence. God is the solitude of man."
  
• "Man is condemned to be free; because once thrown into the world, he is responsible for everything he does."
  
• "Once you hear the details of victory, it is hard to distinguish it from a defeat."

Anais Nin

• "Love never dies a natural death. It dies because we don't know how to replenish it's source. It dies of blindness and errors and betrayals. It dies of illness and wounds; it dies of weariness, of witherings, of tarnishings."
• "The role of a writer is not to say what we all can say, but what we are unable to say."
• "We write to taste life twice, in the moment and in retrospection."
• "We don't see things as they are, we see them as we are."
• "What I cannot love, I overlook."
• "Throw your dreams into space like a kite, and you do not know what it will bring back, a new life, a new friend, a new love, a new country."
• "We are like sculptors, constantly carving out of others the image we long for, need, love or desire, often against reality, against their benefit, and always, in the end, a disappointment, because it does not fit them."
• "I, with a deeper instinct, choose a man who compels my strength, who makes enormous demands on me, who does not doubt my courage or my toughness, who does not believe me naive or innocent, who has the courage to treat me like a woman."
• "If you do not breathe through writing, if you do not cry out in writing, or sing in writing, then don't write, because our culture has no use for it."
  
• "Life shrinks or expands in proportion to one's courage."
• "I postpone death by living, by suffering, by error, by risking, by giving, by losing."
  
• "I stopped loving my father a long time ago. What remained was the slavery to a pattern."
• "Anxiety is love's greatest killer. It makes others feel as you might when a drowning man holds on to you. You want to save him, but you know he will strangle you with his panic."
  
• "Each friend represents a world in us, a world not born until they arrive, and it is only by this meeting that a new world is born."

Friedrich Nietzsche

• "In heaven all the interesting people are missing."
• "No price is too high to pay for the privilege of owning yourself."
  
• "The advantage of a bad memory is that one enjoys several times the same good things for the first time."
  
• "A casual stroll through the lunatic asylum shows that faith does not prove anything."
  
• "Man is the cruelest animal."
  
• "Poets are shameless with their experiences: they exploit them."
  
• "He who fights with monsters might take care lest he thereby become a monster. And if you gaze for long into an abyss, the abyss gazes also into you."
• “I have done that," says my memory. "I cannot have done that" -- says my pride, and remains adamant. At last -- memory yields.”
  
• “The true man wants two things: danger and play. For that reason he wants woman, as the most dangerous plaything.”
  
• “I'm not upset that you lied to me, I'm upset that from now on I can't believe you”
  
• “He who cannot lie does not know what the truth is”
  
• “Is man one of God's blunders? Or is God one of man's blunders?”
  
• “Whatever is done for love always occurs beyond good and evil.”
  
• “To forget one's purpose is the commonest form of stupidity.”
  
• “Out of damp and gloomy days, out of solitude, out of loveless words directed at us, conclusions grow up in us like fungus: one morning they are there, we know not how, and they gaze upon us, morose and gray. Woe to the thinker who is not the gardener but only the soil of the plants that grow in him.”
  
• “One has to pay dearly for immortality; one has to die several times while one is still alive”
  
• “There is always some madness in love. But there is also always some reason in madness.”
  
• “The individual has always had to struggle to keep from being overwhelmed by the tribe. If you try it, you will be lonely often, and sometimes frightened. But no price is too high to pay for the privilege of owning yourself.”
  
• “The visionary lies to himself, the liar only to others.”
  
• “What else is love but understanding and rejoicing in the fact that another person lives, acts, and experiences otherwise than we do…?”
  
• “To predict the behavior of ordinary people in advance, you only have to assume that they will always try to escape a disagreeable situation with the smallest possible expenditure of intelligence.”
  
• "And those who were seen dancing were thought to be insane by those who could not hear the music."
  
• "There are no facts, only interpretations."
  
• "Ah, women. They make the highs higher and the lows more frequent."
  
• "What, if some day or night a demon were to steal after you into your loneliest loneliness and say to you: 'This life as you now live it and have lived it, you will have to live once more and innumerable times more' ... Would you not throw yourself down and gnash your teeth and curse the demon who spoke thus? Or have you once experienced a tremendous moment when you would have answered him: 'You are a god and never have I heard anything more divine."
  
• "There is not enough love and goodness in the world to permit giving any of it away to imaginary beings."
  
• “What labels me, negates me."
  
• "We have art in order not to die of the truth."
  
• "The thought of suicide is a great consolation: by means of it one gets successfully through many a bad night."
  
• "Stupidity in a woman is unfeminine."
  
• "Perhaps I know best why it is man alone who laughs; he alone suffers so deeply that he had to invent laughter."
  
• "True, we love life, not because we are used to living, but because we are used to loving. There is always some madness in love, but there is also always some reason in madness."
  

Lao Tzu

• "He who knows does not speak. He who speaks does not know."
  
• "To know that you do not know is the best. To pretend to know when you do not know is a disease."
  
• "Mastering others is strength, mastering yourself is true power."
  
• "Love is of all passions the strongest, for it attacks simultaneously the head, the heart and the senses."
  
• ""When I let go of what I am, I become what I might be"
  
• "At the center of your being you have the answer; you know who you are and you know what you want."
  
• "Be content with what you have; rejoice in the way things are. When you realize there is nothing lacking, the whole world belongs to you."
  
• "Nature does not hurry, yet everything is accomplished."
• "If you realize that all things change, there is nothing you will try to hold on to. If you are not afraid of dying, there is nothing you cannot achieve."
• "Being deeply loved by someone gives you strength; loving someone deeply gives you courage."
• "Knowing others is wisdom; Knowing the self is enlightenment; Mastering others requires force; Mastering the self needs strength."
• "The softest things in the world overcome the hardest things in the world."
• "A good traveler has no fixed plans and is not intent on arriving."
• "A man with one watch knows what time it is. A man with two is never sure."
• "By letting it go it all gets done, the world is won by those who let it go. But when you try and try, the world is beyond the winning."
• "He who knows others is learned. He who knows himself is wise."
• "Kindness in words creates confidence. Kindness in thinking creates profoundness. Kindness in giving creates love."
• "He who knows that enough is enough will always have enough."

Langston Hughes

• "Dig and be dug in return."
  

William Ernest Henley

• "I am the master of my fate, I am the captain of my soul."
  

Dorothy Parker

• "You might as well live."
  

Milan Kundera

• "We live everyday as it comes, without warning, like an actor going on cold. And what can life be worth if the first rehearsal for life is life itself?
  

Aristotle

• "Evil brings men together."
  
• "Misfortune shows those who are not really friends."
  
• "Happiness depends upon ourselves."
  
• "A flatterer is a friend who is your inferior, or pretends to be so."
  

Jane Austen

• "For what do we live, but to make sport for our neighbours, and laugh at them in our turn?"
  
• "Nothing amuses me more than the easy manner with which everybody settles the abundance of those who have a great deal less than themselves."
  
• "I do not want people to be agreeable, as it saves me the trouble of liking them."
  

Albert Einstein

• "I never think of the future - it comes soon enough."
  
• "Imagination is more important than knowledge..."
  

Confucius

• "Where ever you go, go with all your heart."
  
• "Have no friends not equal to yourself."
  
• "Before you embark on a journey of revenge, dig two graves."
  
• "Everything has its beauty but not everyone sees it."
  
• "I hear and I forget. I see and I remember. I do and I understand."
  
• "Our greatest glory is not in never falling, but in getting up every time we do."
  
• "When anger rises, think of the consequences."
  
• "What the superior man seeks is in himself; what the small man seeks is in others."
  

Ralph Waldo Emerson

• "A friend is one before whom I may think aloud."
  
• "Every sweet has its sour; every evil its good."
  
• "If I have lost confidence in myself, I have the universe against me."
  

Robert Frost

• "Love is an irresistible desire to be irresistibly desired."
  
• "The reason why worry kills more people than work is that more people worry than work."
• "Two roads diverged in a wood, and I--I took the one less traveled by, and that has made all the difference."
  

Martin Luther King Jr.

• "Human salvation lies in the hands of the creatively maladjusted."
  
• "In the end, we will remember not the words of our enemies, but the silence of our friends."
  
• "Nothing in all the world is more dangerous than sincere ignorance and conscientious stupidity."
  
• "The ultimate measure of a man is not where he stands in moments of comfort and convenience, but where he stands at times of challenge and controversy."
  

Ovid

• "All things may corrupt when minds are prone to evil."
  
• "To be loved, be lovable."
  
• "Time the devourer of all things."
  
• "Dignity and love do not blend well, nor do they continue long together."
  

Francois de La Rochefoucauld

• "We are so accustomed to disguise ourselves to others that in the end we become disguised to ourselves."
  
• "We confess our little faults to persuade people that we have no large ones."
  
• "Gratitude is merely the secret hope of further favors."
  
• "It is often merely for an excuse that we say things are impossible."
  
• "Many people despise wealth, but few know how to give it away."
  
• "One cannot answer for his courage when he has never been in danger."
  
• "Small minds are much distressed by little things. Great minds see them all but are not upset by them."
  
• "We all have strength enough to endure the misfortunes of others."
  

Oscar Wilde

• "Genius is born--not paid."
  
• "A man can be happy with any woman as long as he does not love her."
  
• "A little sincerity is a dangerous thing, and a great deal of it is absolutely fatal."
  
• "America is the only country that went from barbarism to decadence without civilization in between."
  
• "Consistency is the last refuge of the unimaginative."
  
• "Man is least himself when he talks in his own person. Give him a mask, and he will tell you the truth."
• "Most people are other people. Their thoughts are someone else's opinions, their lives a mimicry, their passions a quotation. Be yourself; everyone else is already taken."
  

Voltaire

• "...the safest course is to do nothing against one's conscience. With this secret, we can enjoy life and have no fear from death."
  
• "History is a pack of lies we play on the dead."
  
• "Those who can make you believe absurdities can make you commit atrocities."
  

Henry David Thoreau

• "Be true to your work, your word, and your friend."
  
• "How vain it is to sit down to write when you have not stood up to live."
  
• "Our life is frittered away by detail. Simplify, simplify."
  
• "My friend is one... who take me for what I am."
  

Sophocles

• "No man loves life like him that's growing old."
  
• "To him who is in fear everything rustles."
  

Socrates

• "I know nothing except the fact of my ignorance."
• "The unexamined life is not worth living."
  

William Shakespeare

• "I must be cruel only to be kind; Thus bad begins, and worse remains behind.
  
• "I am not bound to please thee with my answers."
  
• "I did never know so full a voice issue from so empty a heart: but the saying is true 'The empty vessel makes the greatest sound'."
  

Plato

• "Only the dead have seen the end of war."
  
• "Never discourage anyone... who continually makes progress, no matter how slow."
  
• "The price good men pay for indifference to public affairs is to be ruled by evil men."
  
• "You can discover more about a person in an hour of play than in a year of conversation."
  

Omar Khayyam

• "Keep yourself from worries and sorrow, seize with all your might this fleeting life, yesterday is already far, tomorrow not yet arrived; be happy for a moment, this moment is your life; fill the bountiful cup, life is disgrace, drunkenness grace."
  

Marcello Rubini

• "You are the first woman on the first day of creation. You are mother, sister, lover, friend, angel, devil, earth, home."

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