quotes about life

Blaise Pascal

A person dear to me was quoting Blaise Pascal one day, and I loved it so much I was inspired to look up some of his quotes. And they are really quite profound and straight to the core. Check out these 25 I’ve picked:

If our condition were truly happy, we would not seek diversion from it in order to make ourselves happy.

If we examine our thoughts, we shall find them always occupied with the past and the future.

Happiness is neither without us nor within us. It is in God, both without us and within us.

I have made this letter longer than usual, only because I have not had the time to make it shorter.

Imagination disposes of everything; it creates beauty, justice, and happiness, which are everything in this world.

In faith there is enough light for those who want to believe and enough shadows to blind those who don’t.

It is not good to be too free. It is not good to have everything one wants.

Kind words do not cost much. Yet they accomplish much.

When we are in love we seem to ourselves quite different from what we were before.

All human evil comes from a single cause, man’s inability to sit still in a room.

All of our reasoning ends in surrender to feeling.

Between us and heaven or hell there is only life, which is the frailest thing in the world.

Contradiction is not a sign of falsity, nor the lack of contradiction a sign of truth.

Man’s greatness lies in his power of thought.

Nothing is so intolerable to man as being fully at rest, without a passion, without business, without entertainment, without care.

People are usually more convinced by reasons they discovered themselves than by those found by others.

Small minds are concerned with the extraordinary, great minds with the ordinary.

That we must love one God only is a thing so evident that it does not require miracles to prove it.

The eternal silence of these infinite spaces frightens me.

There is a God shaped vacuum in the heart of every man which cannot be filled by any created thing, but only by God, the Creator, made known through Jesus.

There are two kinds of people one can call reasonable: those who serve God with all their heart because they know him, and those who seek him with all their heart because they do not know him.

Time heals griefs and quarrels, for we change and are no longer the same persons. Neither the offender nor the offended are any more themselves.

Two things control men’s nature, instinct and experience.

We never love a person, but only qualities.

Love has reasons which reason cannot understand.

These are just some thoughts that we can ponder about.