"Living is a sickness to which sleep provides……" — Nicolas Chamfort
"Living is a sickness to which sleep provides relief every sixteen hours. It's a palliative. The remedy is death."
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Nicolas Chamfort
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107 Quotes by Nicolas Chamfort
Nicolas Chamfort has 107 quotes on this site.
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There are more people who wish to be loved than there are who are willing to love.
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Contemplation often makes life miserable. We should act more, think less, and stop watching ourselves live.
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Swallow a toad in the morning and you will encounter nothing more disgusting the rest of the day.
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The most wasted day of all is that on which we have not laughed.
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The only thing that stops God from sending another flood is that the first one was useless.
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When a man and a woman have an overwhelming passion for each other, it seems to me, in spite of…
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It must be admitted that there are some parts of the soul which we must entirely paralyse before we can…
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Do you think that revolutions are made with rose water?
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Love is more pleasant than marriage for the same reason that novels are more amusing than history.
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Philosophy, like medicine, has plenty of drugs, few good remedies, and hardly any specific cures.
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If it were not for the government, we should have nothing to laugh at in France.
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Man may aspire to virtue, but he cannot reasonably aspire to truth.
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More Death Quotes
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In order to go on living one must try to escape the death involved in perfectionism.
— Hannah Arendt
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As we all know, many people remain buried under tons of rubble and debris, waiting to be rescued. When we…
— Jean-Bertrand Aristide
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The educated differ from the uneducated as much as the living from the dead.
— Aristotle
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To run away from trouble is a form of cowardice and, while it is true that the suicide braves death,…
— Aristotle
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I design for real people. I think of our customers all the time. There is no virtue whatsoever in creating…
— Giorgio Armani
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I think when you're 10 years old, it's too much to see something with the threat of death in every…
— J. J. Abrams
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Islam is a religion of success. Unlike Christianity, which has as its main image, in the west at least, a…
— Karen Armstrong
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Spare me the whispering, crowded room, the friends who come and gape and go, the ceremonious air of gloom -…
— Matthew Arnold
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Truth sits upon the lips of dying men.
— Matthew Arnold
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Life is pleasant. Death is peaceful. It's the transition that's troublesome.
— Isaac Asimov
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Death is the sound of distant thunder at a picnic.
— Wystan Hugh Auden
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To save your world you asked this man to die; would this man, could he see you now, ask why?
— Wystan Hugh Auden
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