Quotes · Skopia

35 quotes

Plato, Republic · 375 BC

★ 8.2

Philosophical dialogue · Dialogue · Philosophical literature

For what should a man live, if not for the pleasures of discourse?

Plato

Phaedrus · 370 BC

★ 8.2

Poem · Narrative poem · Epic poem · Religious literature

Consider your origin; you were not born to live like brutes, but to follow virtue and knowledge.

Dante Alighieri

Inferno · 1321

★ 8.0

Poem

Only two things does he anxiously wish for-bread and circuses.

Juvenal

Satires · 127

★ 7.3

Autobiography and memoir

I went to the woods because I wished to live deliberately, to front only the essential facts of life, and see if I could not learn what it had to teach, and not, when I came to die, discover that I had not lived.

Henry David Thoreau

Walden · 1854

★ 7.1

Poem

What is this life if, full of care, We have no time to stand and stare?

W.H. Davies

1911

★ 6.9

Scripture · Religious literature

And God blessed them, and God said unto them, Be fruitful, and multiply, and replenish the earth, and subdue it: and have dominion over the fish of the sea, and over the fowl of the air, and over every living thing that moveth upon the earth.

Genesis 1:28

1405 BC

★ 6.2

Essay · Philosophical literature

There is but one truly serious philosophical problem, and that is suicide. Judging whether life is or is not worth living amounts to answering the fundamental question of philosophy.

Albert Camus

The Myth of Sisyphus · 1942

★ 6.1

Philosophical literature

The prudent man aspires not to pleasure, but to the absence of pain.

Aristotle

The Nicomachean Ethics · 322 BC

★ 4.0

Novel

For what do we live, but to make sport for our neighbours, and laugh at them in our turn?

Jane Austen

Pride and Prejudice · 1813

★ 4.0

Philosophical literature

The good of man is the active exercise of his soul's faculties in conformity with excellence or virtue... Moreover this activity must occupy a complete lifetime; for one swallow does not make spring, nor does one fine day; and similarly one day or a brief period of happiness does not make a man supremely blessed and happy.

Aristotle

The Nicomachean Ethics · 322 BC

★ 3.9

Film · Drama (film) · Drama

I don’t know if we each have a destiny, or if we’re all just floatin’ around accidental-like on a breeze. But I, I think maybe it’s both. Maybe both get happening at the same time.

Forrest Gump

Forrest Gump · 1994

★ 3.9

Film · Romantic comedy (film) · Comedy drama (film) · Romantic comedy · Comedy drama

I just don't know what I'm supposed to be. You know?

Charlotte (Lost in Translation)

Lost in Translation · 2003

★ 3.9

Poem

And we are put on earth a little space, That we may learn to bear the beams of love.

William Blake

Songs of Innocence · 1789

★ 3.8

Film · Epic (film) · Adventure comedy (film) · Epic · Adventure comedy

Don't be in a hurry. You'll miss the best parts in life.

Saloon hostess

Around the World in 80 Days · 1956

★ 3.8

Film · Black comedy (film) · Comedy drama (film) · Black comedy · Comedy drama

This isn't life! This is just stuff! And it's become more important to you than living! Well, honey, that's just nuts.

Lester Burnham

American Beauty · 1999

★ 3.7

Film · Historical drama (film) · Drama (film) · Historical drama · Drama

When a man sees his end, he wants to know there was some purpose to his life.

Marcus Aurelius

Gladiator · 2000

★ 3.7

Film · Comedy (film) · Comedy

Did you ever think that maybe there's more to life than being really, really, really, ridiculously good looking?

Derek Zoolander

Zoolander · 2001

★ 3.7

Travel writing

To be what we are, and to become what we are capable of becoming, is the only end of life.

Robert Louis Stevenson

1882

★ 3.6

Novel

All animals, except man, know that the principal business of life is to enjoy it.

Samuel Butler (novelist)

The Way of All Flesh · 1902

★ 3.6

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