Henri Frederic Amiel Quotes About Life

Quotes about: Life

• You desire to know the art of living, my friend? It is contained in one phrase: make use of suffering.

  Henri Frederic Amiel

  Inspirational, Life, Art

• Our duty is to be useful, not according to our desires but according to our powers.

  Henri Frederic Amiel

  Life, Responsibility, Ambition

• Life is short and we have never too much time for gladdening the hearts of those who are travelling the dark journey with us. Oh be swift to love, make haste to be kind.

  Henri Frederic Amiel

  Love, Life, Relationship

• A man must be able to cut a knot, for everything cannot be untied; he must know how to disengage what is essential from the detail in which it is enwrapped, for everything cannot be equally considered; in a word, he must be able to simplify his duties, his business and his life.

  Henri Frederic Amiel

  Life, Letting Go, Cutting

• For purposes of action nothing is more useful than narrowness of thought combined with energy of will.

  Henri Frederic Amiel

  Inspirational, Life, Success

• Hope is only the love of life.

  Henri Frederic Amiel

  Life, Hope, Anticipation

• Analysis kills spontaneity.

  Henri Frederic Amiel

  Life, Art, Philosophy

• Let the living live; and you, gather together your thoughts, leave behind you a legacy of feeling and ideas; you will be most useful so.

  Henri Frederic Amiel

  Life, Ideas, Feelings

• Melancholy is at the bottom of everything, just as at the end of all rivers is the sea. Can it be otherwise in a world where nothing lasts, where all that we have loved or shall love must die? Is death, then, the secret of life? The gloom of an eternal mourning enwraps, more or less closely, every serious and thoughtful soul, as night enwraps the universe.

  Henri Frederic Amiel

  Life, Thoughtful, Night

• Happiness gives us the energy which is the basis of health.

  Henri Frederic Amiel

  Love, Life, Family

  Journal Intime 2 April (1865)

• Knowledge, love, power-there is the complete life.

  Henri Frederic Amiel

  Love, Life, Love Life

• Life is but a daily oscillation between revolt and submission.

  Henri Frederic Amiel

  Life, Submission, Oscillation

• Our life is nothing, it is true, but our life is divine. A breath of nature annihilates us, but we surpass nature in penetrating far beyond her vast phantasmagoria to the changeless and the eternal.

  Henri Frederic Amiel

  Life, Divine, Eternal

• I am a spectator, so to speak, of the molecular whirlwind which men call individual life; I am conscious of an incessant metamorphosis, an irresistible movement of existence, which is going on within me - and this phenomenology of myself serves as a window opened upon the mystery of the world.

  Henri Frederic Amiel

  Life, Men, World

  "The Journal Intime of Henri-Frédéric Amiel". Book by Henri-Frédéric Amiel, translated by Mary Augusta Ward, 1882.

• To learn new habits is everything, for it is to reach the substance of life. Life is but a tissue of habits.

  Henri Frederic Amiel

  Life, Substance, Tissues

  "The Journal Intime of Henri-Frédéric Amiel". Book by Henri-Frédéric Amiel, translated by Mary Augusta Ward, 1882.

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