Simone de Beauvoir Quotes about Life

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

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

Simone de Beauvoir

Love, Life, Kindness

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

Life is occupied in both perpetuating itself and in surpassing itself; if all it does is maintain itself, then living is only not dying.

Simone de Beauvoir

Life, Inspire, Dying

Simone de Beauvoir (2011). “The Ethics of Ambiguity”, p.41, Open Road Media

It is not in giving life but in risking life that man is raised above the animal; that is why superiority has been accorded in humanity not to the sex that brings forth but to that which kills.

Simone de Beauvoir

Life, Death, Sex

'Le deuxiéme sexe' (1949) pt. 2, ch. 4