Simone de Beauvoir Quotes about Destiny

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One can not start by saying that our earthly destiny has or has not importance, for it depends upon us to give it importance.

One can not start by saying that our earthly destiny has or has not importance, for it depends upon us to give it importance.

Simone de Beauvoir

Destiny, Giving, Importance

"The Philosophical Library Existentialism Collection: Essays in Metaphysics, The Ethics of Ambiguity, and The Emotions".

Marriage is traditionally the destiny offered to women by society. Most women are married or have been, or plan to be or suffer from not being.

Simone de Beauvoir

Marriage, Destiny, Suffering

It is old age, rather than death, that is to be contrasted with life. Old age is life's parody, whereas death transforms life into a destiny: in a way it preserves it by giving it the absolute dimension. Death does away with time.

Simone de Beauvoir

Death, Time, Destiny

Simone de Beauvoir (1975). “The Coming of Age”

Indeed, there is nothing more arbitrary than intervening as a stranger in a destiny which is not ours.

Simone de Beauvoir

Destiny, Arbitrary, Existential

Martin Heidegger, Simone de Beauvoir, Jean-Paul Sartre (2016). “The Philosophical Library Existentialism Collection: Essays in Metaphysics, The Ethics of Ambiguity, and The Philosophy of Existentialism”, p.99, Open Road Media

Simone de Beauvoir Quotes about Destiny

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