Life is neither good or evil, but only a place for good and evil.

Millions of people die every day. Everyone’s got to go sometime.

I have wondered about time all my life.

Nothing exists from whose nature some effect does not follow.

The absurd depends as much on man as on the world. For the moment, it is all that links them together.

A perpetual holiday is a good working definition of hell.

To fear love is to fear life, and those who fear life are already three parts dead.

Man the individual consoles himself for his passing with the thought of the offspring or the works which he leaves behind.

I’ve been afraid of people playing their life away with too many toys.

Thus so wretched is man that he would weary even without any cause for weariness… and so frivolous is he that, though full of a thousand reasons for weariness, the least thing, such as playing billiards or hitting a ball, is sufficient enough to amuse him.

Life is just one damned thing after another.

It is the eye of other people that ruin us. If I were blind I would want, neither fine clothes, fine houses or fine furniture.

The false is nothing but an imitation of the true.

Life is made of ever so many partings welded together.

The superior man does not, even for the space of a single meal, act contrary to virtue. In moments of haste, he cleaves to it. In seasons of danger, he cleaves to it.

What is imponderable in the world is greater than what we can handle.

There is not a more unhappy being than a superannuated idol.

We might as well die as to go on living like this.

To have no time for philosophy is to be a true philosopher.

Life isn’t about finding yourself. Life is about creating yourself.

To live is to think.

The first step in the evolution of ethics is a sense of solidarity with other human beings.

The momentous thing in human life is the art of winning the soul to good or evil.

Everything that exists is in a manner the seed of that which will be.

The existentialist says at once that man is anguish.

What if nothing exists and we’re all in somebody’s dream?

And were an epitaph to be my story I’d have a short one ready for my own. I would have written of me on my stone: I had a lover’s quarrel with the world.

Life is never fair, and perhaps it is a good thing for most of us that it is not.

No man ever quite believes in any other man. One may believe in an idea absolutely, but not in a man.

You say it is the good cause that hallows even war? I say unto you: it is the good war that hallows any cause.

God gave us the gift of life; it is up to us to give ourselves the gift of living well.

Rather than love, than money, than fame, give me truth.

The one charm about marriage is that it makes a life of deception absolutely necessary for both parties.

Read no history: nothing but biography, for that is life without theory.

I’ll die a crazy old man!

To be awake is to be alive.

We are such stuff as dreams are made on; and our little life is rounded with a sleep.

If boyhood and youth are but vanity, must it not be our ambition to become men?

Theology is the effort to explain the unknowable in terms of the not worth knowing.

We should not be so taken up in the search for truth, as to neglect the needful duties of active life; for it is only action that gives a true value and commendation to virtue.

Atheism is a non-prophet organization.

There is but one truly serious philosophical problem and that is suicide.

What we need is a system of thought – you might even call it a religion – that can bind humans together. A system that would fit the Republic of Chad as well as the United States: a system that would supply our idealistic young people with something to believe in.

It’s life isn’t it? You plow ahead and make a hit. And you plow on and someone passes you. Then someone passes them. Time levels.

Is life worth living? It all depends on the liver.

Our object in the construction of the state is the greatest happiness of the whole, and not that of any one class.

Skepticism is a virtue in history as well as in philosophy.

Part of the secret of a success in life is to eat what you like and let the food fight it out inside.

Nothing can cure the soul but the senses, just as nothing can cure the senses but the soul.

The cost of a thing is the amount of what I will call life which is required to be exchanged for it, immediately or in the long run.

You have your way. I have my way. As for the right way, the correct way, and the only way, it does not exist.

Death is not the worst that can happen to men.

The observer, when he seems to himself to be observing a stone, is really, if physics is to be believed, observing the effects of the stone upon himself.

It is by no means an irrational fancy that, in a future existence, we shall look upon what we think our present existence, as a dream.

The pendulum of the mind alternates between sense and nonsense, not between right and wrong.

Life tends to be an accumulation of a lot of mundane decisions, which often gets ignored.

I don’t believe we are supposed to go through life defeated and not having enough money to pay our bills or send our kids to college.

I have thought there was some advantage even in death, by which we mingle with the herd of common men.

Who can exhaust a man? Who knows a man’s resources?

Life loves to be taken by the lapel and told: ‚I’m with you kid. Let’s go.‘

Doubt is not a pleasant condition, but certainty is absurd.