To fear love is to fear life, and those who fear life are already three parts dead. - Bertrand Russell. View more images...
Real life is to most men, a long second best, a perpetual compromise between the ideal and the possible. - Bertrand Russell. View more images...
What hunger is in relation to food, zest is in relation to life - Bertrand Russell. View more images...
A happy life must be to a great extent a quiet life, for it is only in an atmosphere of quiet that true joy dare live - Bertrand Russell. View more images...
I should scorn to shiver with terror at the thought of annihilation. Happiness is nonetheless true happiness because it must come to an end, nor do thought and love lose their value because they are not everlasting. - Bertrand Russell. View more images...
Love is something far more than desire for sexual intercourse; it is the principal means of escape from the loneliness which afflicts most men and women throughout the greater part of their lives. - Bertrand Russell. View more images...
Love is, above all, the gift of oneself. - Bertrand Russell. View more images...
The fundamental defect of fathers is that they want their children to be a credit to them. - Bertrand Russell. View more images...
The good life is inspired by love and guided by knowledge. - Bertrand Russell. View more images...
Life is a brief, small, and transitory phenomenon in an obscure corner, not at all the sort of thing that one would make a fuss about if one were not personally concerned - Bertrand Russell. View more images...
Three passions, simple but overwhelmingly strong, have governed my life: the longing for love, the search for knowledge, and unbearable pity for the suffering of mankind. - Bertrand Russell. View more images...
Many people when they fall in love look for a little haven of refuge from the world, where they can be sure of being admired when they are not admirable, and praised when they are not praiseworthy. - Bertrand Russell. View more images...
I have sought love because in the union of love I have seen, in a mystic miniature, the prefiguring vision of the heaven the saints and poets have imagined - Bertrand Russell. View more images...
The good life, as I conceive it, is a happy life. I do not mean that if you are good you will be happy - I mean that if you are happy you will be good. - Bertrand Russell. View more images...
This has been my life. I have found it worth living, and would gladly live it again if the chance were offered me. - Bertrand Russell. View more images...