Love & Life Sayings

208 sayings found from the Modern era from 208 authors

The problem of society is not how to abolish evil, but how to make it productive.

— Georg Simmel 1908
Life & Death

When a society is deeply divided, it tends to commit suicide collectively.

— Emile Durkheim 1897
Life & Death

The only way to be free is to accept the necessity of our own death.

— Simone Weil 1947 (posthumous)
Life & Death

The capacity to love is a condition of our humanity.

— Paulo Freire 1992
Love & Relationships

The most difficult thing is to love the world and not to despise it.

— Leo Tolstoy 1903
Love & Relationships

The darker the night, the brighter the stars, The deeper the grief, the closer is God!

— Fyodor Dostoevsky 1869
Life & Death

It was one of those March days when the sun shines hot and the wind blows cold: when it is summer in the light, and winter in the shade.

— Charles Dickens 1861
Nature & World

Laughter is the sun that drives winter from the human face.

— Victor Hugo 1862
Nature & World

The great questions of the day will not be settled by speeches and majority decisions... but by blood and iron.

— Bismarck 1862
Life & Death

I can choose to be an animal, a plant, a stone, a star; it is all the same to me.

— Franz Kafka 1917
Nature & World

If I can get to the heart of Dublin I can get to the heart of all the cities of the world. In the particular is contained the universal.

— James Joyce 1920s
Love & Relationships

All animals are equal, but some animals are more equal than others.

— George Orwell 1945
Nature & World

A man can be happy with any woman as long as he does not love her.

— Aldous Huxley 1920s-1930s
Love & Relationships

Never go on trips with anyone you do not love.

— Ernest Hemingway 1964 (posthumous)
Love & Relationships

I left my heart in San Francisco. No, I left it in a bar.

— F. Scott Fitzgerald 1930s
Love & Relationships

There is always something left to love.

— Gabriel Garcia Marquez 1967
Love & Relationships

There is no exercise for the heart but the exercise of love.

— Jorge Luis Borges Unknown
Love & Relationships

I never travel without my diary. One should always have something sensational to read in the train.

— Oscar Wilde 1895
Nature & World

I think I could turn and live with animals, they are so placid and self-contain'd, I stand and look at them long and long.

— Walt Whitman 1855
Nature & World

Because I could not stop for Death – He kindly stopped for me – The Carriage held but just Ourselves – And Immortality.

— Emily Dickinson c. 1863
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