Walter Benjamin Quotes

The destructive character lives from the feeling, not that life is worth living, but that suicide is not worth the trouble.

Walter Benjamin

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• A person's life is of their own making, and I take full responsibility for mine.

  

  Rachel Roy
  • Life
  • Responsibility
  • Person

• The four cornerstones of character on which the structure of this nation was built are: Initiative, Imagination, Individuality and Independence.

  

  Eddie Rickenbacker
  • Character
  • Imagination

• I'm half living my life between reality and fantasy at all times. It's best not to ask questions and just enjoy.

  

  Lady Gaga
  • Life
  • Reality
  • Best

• 'The View' was so much fun. So much fun because the audience was 85-percent fans that wanted to be there celebrating 'One Life to Live' and the other 15 percent were crew members from 'One Life to Live'. It was just really, really wonderful and the clips were wonderful.

  

  Kassie DePaiva
  • Life
  • Live
  • Fun

• The worldview implied by literary fiction is complex and ambiguous, trying to be faithful to the complexity and ambiguity of life.

  

  Nancy Kress
  • Life
  • Trying
  • Complexity

• I think I would have been so much in awe of the movie set, the people and what everybody's job was, that I don't know if I would be able to concentrate on the character.

  

  Daisy Fuentes
  • People
  • Character
  • Job

• To have courage for whatever comes in life - everything lies in that.

  

  Saint Teresa of Avila
  • Life
  • Courage
  • Lies

• Is life so dear or peace so sweet as to be purchased at the price of chains and slavery? Forbid it, Almighty God! I know not what course others may take, but as for me, give me liberty, or give me death!

  

  Patrick Henry
  • Life
  • Death
  • Peace

• What I learned from boxing and what everyone can take in real life is to follow directions, follow order. Don't give nobody a hard time.

  

  Floyd Mayweather, Jr.
  • Life
  • Time
  • Real

• I think I was just lucky to be brought up in a very musical family. My two older brothers were, and still are, very musical and very creative, and music was a big part of my life from a very young age, so it is quite natural for me to become involved in music in the way that I did.

  

  Kate Bush
  • Life
  • Up
  • Music

• I don't have to prove my life. I just have to live.

  

  Daniel Berrigan
  • Life
  • Live
  • My Life

• As an assistant operations officer for a helicopter task force in Iraq, I saw my fellow Guardsmen and soldiers risk life and limb to maintain diesel fuel supply lines.

  

  Tammy Duckworth
  • Life
  • Risk
  • Soldiers

• Those who prepared for all the emergencies of life beforehand may equip themselves at the expense of joy.

  

  E. M. Forster
  • Life
  • May
  • Joy

• The amount of death terror experienced is closely related to the amount of life unlived.

  

  Irvin D. Yalom
  • Life
  • Death
  • Terror

• Music is everywhere and in everything! I draw my inspiration from the day to day activities of my life!

  

  Kailash Kher
  • Life
  • Music
  • Day

• When it comes to literal nourishment, the food we eat, life begets life.

  

  Victoria Moran
  • Life
  • Food
  • Eat

• In Denver, I was a homebody, and that's a life I'd chosen with great happiness. I wanted that break from the arc lights and focus on building a lovely home, have some fun, look after my kids and do things that I had missed out on while pursuing my dream.

  

  Madhuri Dixit
  • Life
  • Great
  • Home

• I was quite satisfied with my creative life. I've always had reinforcement from a small but devoted readership.

  

  Edith Pearlman
  • Life
  • Small
  • Creative

• When it comes to referring to Dickens's life, performing plays with your nine children for friends and family during Christmas is Dickensian.

  

  Matthew Pearl
  • Life
  • Children
  • Family

• You shouldn't vent and open up to your husband, your boyfriend, your friend, because they're not professionals; they don't know the right thing to say to you, and putting them in that position is tricky. You have to look at it from their standpoint. It's so much pressure.

  

  Kendra Wilkinson
  • Up
  • Friend
  • Husband

• Write on my gravestone: 'Infidel, Traitor' - infidel to every church that compromises with wrong; traitor to every government that oppresses the people.

  

  Wendell Phillips
  • People
  • Church

• When I was living in Boston, I worked in this store that played the college radio station. I had to listen to it all day, and I didn't care for most of it.

  

  Win Butler
  • College

• I think the close work I do as a translator pays off in my writing - I'm always searching for multiple ways to say things.

  

  Lydia Davis
  • Work
  • Writing

• The destructive character lives from the feeling, not that life is worth living, but that suicide is not worth the trouble.

  

  Walter Benjamin
  • Life
  • Character
  • Feeling