“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“One hundred years of joy can be erased in one second”
Mitch Albom
18 quotes“Behind all your stories is always your mother's story. Because hers is where yours begin.”
Rainer Maria Rilke
16 quotes“I live my life in widening circles that reach out across the world.”
Henry Miller
15 quotes“We create our fate every day ... most of the ills we suffer from are directly traceable to our own behavior.”
Cormac McCarthy
14 quotes“People were always getting ready for tomorrow. I didn't believe in that. Tomorrow wasn't getting ready for them. It didn...”
Lord Byron
14 quotes“The great art of life is sensation to feel that we exist even in pain.”
Virginia Woolf
14 quotes“No need to hurry. No need to sparkle. No need to be anybody but oneself.”
Joseph Campbell
14 quotes“I don't believe people are looking for the meaning of life as much as they are looking for the experience of being alive...”
Søren Kierkegaard
13 quotes“Life can only be understood backwards but it must be lived forwards.”
Sarah Dessen
13 quotes“All those clean, fresh starts had made me forget what it was like, until now, to be messy and honest and out of control....”
Carlos Ruiz Zafón
13 quotes“Most of us have the good or bad fortune of seeing our lives fall apart so slowly we barely notice.”
Margaret Atwood
13 quotes“Surviving Is the only warWe can afford”