Born to live Quote by Voltaire

“man was born to live either in a state of distracting inquietude or of lethargic disgust.”

— Voltaire

“Martin was a thoroughly amiable man, a man of wide reading, but when he came to write he mounted upon a pair of stilts,…

— Patrick O'Brian

“There was something wrong about thse people. But perhaps, just as it is true of my love, they could not go on living except…

— Osamu Dazai

“We all have different lives, Martin believes – but in the end probably feel the same things, and regret the fear we thought might…

— Simon Van Booy

“He turned to appease the fierce longings of his heart before which everything else was idle and alien. He cared little that he was…

— James Joyce

“With ever watchful eyes and bearing scars, visible and invisible, I headed North, full of a hazy notion that life could be lived with…

— Richard Wright

“Though we are confident that Blessed Martin had no serious sins with which to reproach himself, though his contemporaries assure us that they had…

— J.C. Kearns

“He had built up within himself a kind of sanctuary in which she throned among his secret thoughts and longings. Little by little it…

— Edith Wharton

“the idea presented itself definitely to his mind that it was in his power to exchange the dreary, artificial, idle, and individualistic life he…

— Leo Tolstoy

“I swear, gentlemen, that to be too conscious is an illness — a real thorough-going illness. For man’s everyday needs, it would have been…

— Fyodor Dostoyevsky

“He burned to appease the fierce longing of his heart before which everything else was idle and alien. He cared little that he was…

— James Joyce

“And whether a man dispassionately Sees to the core of life Or passionately Sees the surface They are essentially the same”

— Lao Tzu