To live is to suffer, to survive is to find some meaning in the suffering.
-Friedrich Nietzsche
Quotations
Life
Man's real life is happy, chiefly because he is ever expecting that it soon will be so.
-Edgar Allan Poe
There are only two tragedies in life: one is not getting what one wants, and the other is getting it.
-Oscar Wilde
There are two tragedies in life. One is to lose your heart's desire. The other is to gain it.
-George Bernard Shaw
I don't think that there are any limits to how excellent we could make life seem.
-Jonathan Safran Foer
"Everything is Illuminated"
Open your eyes, look within. Are you satisfied with the life you're living?
-Bob Marley
Life has its own hidden forces which you can only discover by living.
-Søren Kierkegaard
The shoe that fits one person pinches another; there is no recipe for living that suits all cases.
-Carl Gustav Jung
What do you want a meaning for? Life is a desire, not a meaning.
-Charlie Chaplin
What a wee little part of a person's life are his acts and his words! His real life is led in his head, and is known to none but himself.
-Mark Twain
