Love & Life Sayings

208 sayings found from the Modern era from 208 authors

A person may cause evil to others not only by his actions but by his inaction, and in either case he is justly accountable to them for the injury.

— John Stuart Mill 1859
Life & Death

A canter is the cure for all evil.

— Benjamin Disraeli Unknown, likely mid-19th century
Life & Death

What is terrible is not death, but the lives people live or don't live up to their death.

— Soren Kierkegaard 1846
Life & Death

Politeness is to human nature what warmth is to wax.

— Arthur Schopenhauer 1851
Nature & World

Hell is other people.

— Jean-Paul Sartre 1944
Life & Death

No man is justified in doing evil on the ground of expediency.

— Theodore Roosevelt 1903
Life & Death

She was not born to be a wife, nor a mother, nor anything but herself.

— Simone de Beauvoir 1949
Love & Relationships

The greatest evil is not done by evil people, but by people who simply don't care.

— Hannah Arendt 1963
Life & Death

I would never die for my beliefs because I might be wrong.

— Bertrand Russell Approx. 1950s-1960s
Life & Death

I am the most terrible animal that’s ever existed.

— Benito Mussolini 1930s
Nature & World

There is no love of life without despair of life.

— Albert Camus 1942
Love & Relationships

The earth laughs in flowers.

— Ralph Waldo Emerson 1837
Nature & World

What is the use of a house if you haven't got a tolerable planet to put it on?

— Henry David Thoreau 1843
Nature & World

As long as the individual is not free, he cannot truly love.

— Friedrich Engels N/A
Love & Relationships

It is difficult to imagine how many of those who love liberty, and who sincerely desire it, are yet ready to give it up at the first alarm.

— Alexis de Tocqueville 1848
Love & Relationships

If a man is right, he has no reason to fear the judgment of others. If he is wrong, he has no reason to wish that judgment withheld.

— Ayn Rand 1964
Life & Death

The mind is like an iceberg, it floats with one-seventh of its bulk above water.

— Sigmund Freud Unknown
Nature & World

Knowing your own darkness is the best method for dealing with the darknesses of other people.

— Carl Jung Unknown
Life & Death

The environment not only goads or releases, it selects.

— B.F. Skinner 1974
Nature & World

The deepest principle in human nature is the craving to be appreciated.

— William James Unknown, early 20th century
Nature & World
Your Cart

Your cart is empty