Born To Live Quotes - Page 2

• Man is born to live, to suffer, and to die, and what befalls him is a tragic lot. There is no denying this in the final end. But we must deny it all along the way.

  Thomas Wolfe

  Men, Suffering, Finals

  Thomas Wolfe, Maxwell Evarts Perkins, Matthew Joseph Bruccoli, Park Bucker (2000). “To Loot My Life Clean: The Thomas Wolfe--Maxwell Perkins Correspondence”, p.21, Univ of South Carolina Press

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• When you feel gratitude, you are the closest to the natural state you were born to live in.

  Esther Hicks

  Gratitude, Natural, States

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• To be born to create, to love, to win at games is to be born to live in time of peace. But war teaches us to lose everything and become what we were not. It all becomes a question of style.

  Albert Camus

  Peace, War, Winning

  Albert Camus (1969). “Notebooks”

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• Martin in particular concluded that man was born to live either in the convulsions of misery, or in the lethargy of boredom.

  Voltaire

  Men, Boredom, Misery

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• L'homme est ne   pour la socie  te  ; se  parez-le, isolez-le, ses ide  es se de  suniront, son caracte'  re se tournera, mille affections ridicules s'e  le'  veront dans son coeur; des 274 pense  es extravagantes germeront dans son esprit, comme les ronces dans une terre sauvage. Man is born to live in society: separate him, isolate him, and his ideas disintegrate, his character changes, a thousand ridiculous affectations rise up in his heart; extreme thoughts take hold in his mind, like the brambles in a wild field.

  Denis Diderot

  Heart, Character, Son

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• I stayed three weeks in Paris, fell in love with the city, and decided that I was born to live in Paris.

  Ed Bradley

  Travel, Cities, Paris

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