Simone de Beauvoir Quotes That Will Inspire You to Live Your Best Life

1. It has never been very easy for me to live, though I am always very happy—maybe because I want so much to be happy. I like so much to live and I hate the idea of dying one day. And then I am awfully greedy; I want everything from life, I want to be a woman and to be a man, to have many friends and to have loneliness, to work much and write good books, and to travel and enjoy myself, to be selfish and to be unselfish... You see, it is difficult to get all which I want. And then when I do not succeed I get mad with anger. A Transatlantic Love Affair: Letters to Nelson Algren

2. One's life has value so long as one attributes value to the life of others, by means of love, friendship, and compassion

3. What an odd thing a diary is: the things you omit are more important than those you put in. The Woman Destroyed

4. One's life has value so long as one attributes value to the life of others, by means of love, friendship, and compassion

5. Regardless of the staggering dimensions of the world about us, the density of our ignorance, the risks of catastrophes to come, and our individual weakness within the immense collectivity, the fact remains that we are absolutely free today if we choose to will our existence in its finiteness, a finiteness which is open on the infinite. And in fact, any man who has known real loves, real revolts, real desires, and real will knows quite well that he has no need of any outside guarantee to be sure of his goals; their certitude comes from his own drive. The Ethics of Ambiguity

6. The fear of death never left me; I couldn't get used to the thought; I would still sometimes shake and weep with terror. By contrast, the fact of existence here and now sometimes took on a glorious splendour. Memoirs of a Dutiful Daughter