“Sometimes our light goes out, but is blown again into instant flame by an encounter with another human being.”
More from Albert Schweitzer on Life
“As we know life in ourselves we want to understand life in the universe in order to enter into harmony with it.”
“There are two means of refuge from the misery of life — music and cats.”
“We are all so much together, but we are all dying of loneliness.”
“Even if it's a little thing do something for those who have need of help something for which you get no pay but the privilege of doing it.”
“There are two means of refuge from the miseries of life: music and cats.”
“A man can do only what he can do. But if he does that each day he can sleep at night and do it again the next day.”
Others on Life
Jonathan Safran Foer
22 quotes“Anyone who believes that a second is faster than a decade did not live life.”
Mitch Albom
18 quotes“Sometimes when you sacrifice something precious, you're not really losing it. You're just passing it on to someone else.”
Rainer Maria Rilke
16 quotes“It is good to be alone, for solitude is difficult; that something is difficult should be one more reason to do it.”
Henry Miller
15 quotes“Surely every one realizes, at some point along the way, that he is capable of living a far better life than the one he h...”
Lord Byron
14 quotes“Admire exult despise laugh weep - for here There is such matter for all feelings: - Man! Thou pendulum betwixt a smi...”
Joseph Campbell
14 quotes“Life has no meaning. Each of us has meaning and we bring it to life. It is a waste to be asking the question when you ar...”
Virginia Woolf
14 quotes“. . . clumsiness is often mated with a love of solitude.”
Cormac McCarthy
14 quotes“Scars have the strange power to remind us that our past is real.”
Søren Kierkegaard
13 quotes“Our life always expresses the result of our dominant thoughts.”
Viktor Frankl
13 quotes“When a person can't find a deep sense of meaning, they distract themselves with pleasure.”
Sarah Dessen
13 quotes“All I'd ever thought I wanted was to be left alone. Until I was.”
Paulo Coelho
13 quotes“I've noticed that loneliness gets stronger when we try to face it down, but gets weaker when we simply ignore it.”