To fear love is to fear life, and those who fear life are already three parts dead.
Life Quotes
“Life” is a smaller page than you might expect, and an older one. Seneca is the most-quoted of the classical writers, and the sourced entries run from Emerson’s journals in 1822 to Carl Jung’s memoir in 1963. Reading it is closer to browsing a shelf of moralists than scrolling a feed of captions.
One entry needs a warning. “Life is not a problem to be solved, but a reality to be experienced” is credited to Søren Kierkegaard all over the internet. The earliest appearance anyone has located is in a 1976 book about Jack Kerouac, which is a long way from nineteenth-century Copenhagen. We keep it listed, with its flag, because people search for it. We would not put his name under it.
Be not afraid of life. Believe that life is worth living, and your belief will help create the fact.
Life could not be lived wet, whether it be in rain or tears.
The good life is one inspired by love and guided by knowledge.
To know, to esteem, to love—and then to part,
Makes up life's tale to many a feeling heart!
Life is a jest; and all things show it. I thought so once; and now I know it.
An uneasy rhythm of life
is more life like than an easy death.
A portion of life, every moment gets torn out of me hurting, and flees away.