Daily life is essentially a struggle for power.

“For knowledge of death makes us wish to extend our lives at the expense of others. And this is the root of the struggle…

— Saul Bellow

Life is essentially a question of values.

— Meir Kahane

We know that our life is essentially tragic. I'm absolutely not for handing over that very important department of our psyche to those who…

— Christopher Hitchens

You have your way of life, we ours. In your system of life we are essentially without 'honor.' In our system of life you…

— Maurice Samuel

“And who knows (one cannot vouch for it), perhaps the whole goal mankind strives for on earth consists just in this ceaselessness of the…

— Fyodor Dostoyevsky

I don’t intend to be menacing, but I do think of life as being essentially dangerous. We never know what’s going to happen from…

— Alex Colville

In that six months, so much happened that death seemed, primarily, inconvenient. The trial period was extended. I seem to keep extending it. There…

— Anonymous

“Being saddled with a job that pays well but is slowly killing you inside? So that by the time you are 40, you are…

— Brian Tracy

I spend my life essentially alone at a computer. That doesn't change. I have the same challenges every day.

— Dan Brown

All social life is essentially practical. All mysterious which lead theory to mysticism find their rational solution in human practice and in the comprehension…

— Karl Marx

Life is essentially a series of events to be lived through rather than intellectual riddles to be played with and solved.

— George Arthur Buttrick

There is this persistent theme in all of these notions that death is made more easy, whatever that means, if you've learned the territory…

— Terence McKenna

Here one must think profoundly to the very basis and resist all sentimental weakness: life itself is essentially appropriation, injury, conquest of the strange…

— Friedrich Nietzsche

“Life is essentially an endless series of problems. The solution to one problem is merely the creation of the next one. Don't hope for…

— Mark Manson

Life is very difficult. One of the most ancient of religious ideas that emerges everywhere, I would say, is that life is essentially suffering.

— Jordan Peterson