Life Quote by Francis Bacon Download Open image ““Existence is in a way so banal, you may as well try and make a kind of grandeur of it”” — Francis Bacon ★ ★ ★ ★ ★ 3.8 out of 5 (6 ratings) Copy quoteShare Life
“In an art museum, you shall realise how banal and how ordinary the life outside!” — Mehmet Murat ildan Copy Share Image
“It's not about outward appearances but inward significance. A grandeur in the world, but not of the world, a grandeur that the world doesn't… — Donna Tartt Copy Share Image
“Think of the old cliché about the mind being 'an excellent servant but a terrible master'. This, like many clichés, so lame & banal… — David Foster Wallace Copy Share Image
“know very well that I don’t want to do anything: to do something is to create existence—and there’s quite enough existence as it is.” — Jean-Paul Sartre Copy Share Image
“It’s not about outward appearances but inward significance. A grandeur in the world, but not of the world, a grandeur that the world doesn’t… — Donna Tartt Copy Share Image
“It is a delicious thing to write, whether well or badly - to be no longer yourself but to move in an entire universe… — Gustave Flaubert Copy Share Image
“The world has been given a treasure through which its inhabitants can attain greatness if they so desire.” — Sunday Adelaja Copy Share Image
“I am certain that there are two things in life which are dependable, the delights of the flesh and the delights of literature.” — Peter Greenaway Copy Share Image
“As I see it, the only pleasure of living is that every joke should be made, every thought expressed, every line of investigation, irrespective… — Malcolm Muggeridge Copy Share Image
“The world is full of impossibilities - some beautiful, some terrible - but sometimes, when you least expect it, they can become possible.” — Lisa Mangum Copy Share Image
“Satisfy people's desire for the ridiculous and they will accept your idea of the sublime.” — Maurice Willson Disher Copy Share Image
“Dualism... Without it there can hardly be good literature. With it, there most certainly can be no good life.” — Aldous Huxley Copy Share Image
Princes are like heavenly bodies, which cause good or evil times, and which have much veneration, but no rest. — Francis Bacon Copy Share Image
The best preservative to keep the mind in health is the faithful admonition of a friend. — Francis Bacon Copy Share Image
Since custom is the principal magistrate of man's life, let men by all means endeavor to obtain good customs. — Francis Bacon Copy Share Image
Painting today is pure intuition and luck and taking advantage of what happens when you splash the stuff down. — Francis Bacon Copy Share Image
I usually accept bribes from both sides so that tainted money can never influence my decision. — Francis Bacon Copy Share Image
When Christ came into the world, peace was sung; and when He went out of the world, peace was bequeathed. — Francis Bacon Copy Share Image
...neither is it possible to discover the more remote and deeper parts of any science, if you stand but upon the level of the… — Francis Bacon Copy Share Image
The divisions of science are not like different lines that meet in one angle, but rather like the branches of trees that join in… — Francis Bacon Copy Share Image
The human understanding, when any preposition has been once laid down... forces everything else to add fresh support and confirmation; and although more cogent… — Francis Bacon Copy Share Image
I should have been, I don't know, a con-man, a robber or a prostitute. But it was vanity that made me choose painting, vanity… — Francis Bacon Copy Share Image
Of all the people who have affected my life and influenced the choices I've made, none has been more important than my father. I… — Teddy Atlas Copy Share Image
What sets worlds in motion is the interplay of differences, their attractions and repulsions. Life is plurality, death is uniformity. By suppressing differences and… — Octavio Paz Copy Share Image
Life works most perfectly when a reciprocal love relationship is in place between man and God. — Beth Moore Copy Share Image
I value the experiences that come with life too much to sit by and not put my full effort into them. — Jim Miller Copy Share Image
Entertainment is a sacred pursuit when done well. When done well, it raises the quality of human life. — Michael Chabon Copy Share Image
“I've spent much of my life calling my intuition "something wrong with me.” — Deanna L. Lawlis Copy Share Image
When you do things they're absolutely right at that time for you and it can always teach you something about yourself. You can take… — Kym Marsh Copy Share Image
The only people who think the Internet is a calamity are people whose lives have been hurt by it; the only people who insist… — Chuck Klosterman Copy Share Image
The one thing that I keep learning over and over again is that I don't know nothing. I mean, that's my life lesson. — Dwayne Johnson Copy Share Image
“THIS tale of my sore-troubled life I write, To thank the God of nature, who conveyed My soul to me, and with such care… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
