Simone de Beauvoir Life Quotations

The earthly meaning of eternal life was death, and she refused to die.

Whether you think of it as heavenly or as earthly, if you love life immortality is no consolation for death.

Anyway I know only too well that all life is nothing but a brief reprieve from death.

Life is occupied in both perpetuating itself and in surpassing itself; if all it does is maintain itself, then living is only not dying.

It is not in giving life but in risking life that man is raised above the animal; that is why superiority has been accorded in humanity not to the sex that brings forth but to that which kills.

It is in the knowledge of the genuine conditions of our lives that we must draw our strength to live and our reasons for living.

I am too intelligent, too demanding, and too resourceful for anyone to be able to take charge of me entirely. No one knows me or loves me completely. I have only myself

One's life has value so long as one attributes value to the life of others, by means of love, friendship, indignation and compassion.

Change your life today. Don't gamble on the future, act now, without delay.