Love & Life Sayings

499 sayings found from 499 authors

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

You are not a drop in the ocean. You are the entire ocean in a drop.

— Rumi 13th Century
Nature & World

The Potter's Circle, where the pots are made, and broken, and made again, is the symbol of life and death.

— Omar Khayyam c. 11th-12th century
Life & Death

The torch of doubt is lit at the moment of our birth and is not extinguished until the moment of our death.

— Zhuangzi c. 4th century BCE
Life & Death

All men have a mind which cannot bear to see the suffering of others.

— Mencius c. 4th-3rd century BCE
Life & Death

The nature of man is evil; his goodness is acquired.

— Xunzi c. 3rd century BCE
Nature & World

My salad days, When I was green in judgment: cold in blood,

— William Shakespeare c. 1606-1607
Life & Death

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

If you want to destroy any nation without war, make adultery or nudity common in the young generation.

— Saladin c. 1190
Life & Death

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
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