Absence Quote by Michel Houellebecq Download Open image “The absence of the will to live is, alas, not sufficient to make one want to die.” — Michel Houellebecq ★ ★ ★ ★ ★ 4.3 out of 5 (8 ratings) Copy quoteShare Absence Alas Sufficient Boredom Death Live Alas Make Want Sufficient Want Want Die Wanting to die Will to live
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“So the will's desire for death is not a desire for nonexistence, but a desire for peace. When someone wrongly believes that he will… — Augustine of Hippo Copy Share Image
The will of the world is always a will to death, a will to suicide. We must not accept this suicide, and we must… — Jacques Ellul Copy Share Image
One wants to live, of course, indeed one only stays alive by virtue of the fear of death. — George Orwell Copy Share Image
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Only what is fated to die is capable of living. Only what dies lives. — Giannina Braschi Copy Share Image
There is in every one of us an unending see-saw between the will to live and the will to die. — Rebecca West Copy Share Image
As long as the heart beats, as long as body and soul keep together, I cannot admit that any creature endowed with a will… — Jules Verne Copy Share Image
It is the denial of death that is partially responsible for people living empty, purposeless lives; for when you live as if you'll live… — Elisabeth Kubler-Ross Copy Share Image
I think it's more difficult to live without a religion, definitely. — Michel Houellebecq Copy Share Image
I think that if writers don't speak about real life, it's because they don't know it. — Michel Houellebecq Copy Share Image
“In my life, I had known suffering, oppression, anxiety; I had never known boredom. I could see no objection to the endless, imbecile repetition… — Michel Houellebecq Copy Share Image
I admit that invective is one of my pleasures. This only brings me problems in life, but that's it. I attack, I insult. I… — Michel Houellebecq Copy Share Image
“... I spent whole afternoons at Bon Marché looking at pullovers, there was no sense in going on like that.” — Michel Houellebecq Copy Share Image
I've lived so little that I tend to imagine I'm not going to die; it seems improbable that human existence can be reduced to… — Michel Houellebecq Copy Share Image
Rumor had it that he was homosexual; in reality, in recent years, he was simply a garden-variety alcoholic. — Michel Houellebecq Copy Share Image
“He doesn't know it yet, but the infinity of childhood is brief.” — Michel Houellebecq Copy Share Image
“Olga was nice, Olga was nice and loving, Olga loved him, he repeated to himself with a growing sadness as he also realised that… — Michel Houellebecq Copy Share Image
“The problem is, it's just not enough to live according to the rules. Sure, you manage to live according to the rules. Sometimes it's… — Michel Houellebecq Copy Share Image
“Life sometimes offers you a chance, he thought, but when you are too cowardly or too indecisive to seize it life takes the cards… — Michel Houellebecq Copy Share Image
The work, the work, the work. This is what the business is all about. This is the fun, the glory, the pleasure. It's the… — Phil Dusenberry Copy Share Image
Total depravity means the entire absence of holiness, not the highest intensity of sin. A totally depraved man is not as bad as he… — William Greenough Thayer Shedd Copy Share Image
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There, in the center of that silence was not eternity but the death of time and a loneliness so profound the word itself had… — Toni Morrison Copy Share Image
Of all the bewildering things about a new country, the absence of human landmarks is one of the most depressing and disheartening. — Willa Cather Copy Share Image
Young men have strong passions and tend to gratify them indiscriminately. Of the bodily desires, it is the sexual by which they are most… — Aristotle Copy Share Image
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The absence of God in most spheres of life is perceived to be normal, and even Christians feel it as normal - which is… — John Piper Copy Share Image
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