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Theodor Adorno Quotes about Life

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Wrong life cannot be lived rightly.

Wrong life cannot be lived rightly.

Theodor Adorno
Life, Life Changing, Wrong Life
Theodor Adorno, Richard Leppert, Susan H. Gillespie (2002). “Essays on Music”, p.36, Univ of California Press

Life has become the ideology of its own absence.

Theodor Adorno
Life, Absence, Ideology

Everybody must have projects all the time. The maximum must be extracted from leisure ... The whole of life must look like a job, and by this resemblance conceal what is not yet directly devoted to pecuniary gain.

Theodor Adorno
Life, Jobs, Looks

But he who dies in despair has lived his whole life in vain.

Theodor Adorno
Life, Despair, Vain
Theodor W. Adorno, E. F. N. Jephcott (2005). “Minima Moralia: Reflections on a Damaged Life”, p.167, Verso

Life has changed into a timeless succession of shocks, interspaced with empty, paralysed intervals.

Theodor Adorno
Life, Empty, Timeless
Theodor W. Adorno, E. F. N. Jephcott (2005). “Minima Moralia: Reflections on a Damaged Life”, p.54, Verso

Art is magic delivered from the lie of being truth.

Theodor Adorno
Inspirational, Life, Art
Theodor W. Adorno, E. F. N. Jephcott (2005). “Minima Moralia: Reflections on a Damaged Life”, p.222, Verso

To hate destructiveness, one must hate life as well: only death is an image of undistorted life ... organic life is an illness peculiar to our unlovely planet.

Theodor Adorno
Life, Hate, Peculiar
Theodor W. Adorno, E. F. N. Jephcott (2005). “Minima Moralia: Reflections on a Damaged Life”, p.78, Verso

What the philosophers once knew as life has become the sphere of private existence and now of mere consumption, dragged along as an appendage of the process of material production, without autonomy or substance of its own.

Theodor Adorno
Life, Substance, Spheres
Theodor W. Adorno, E. F. N. Jephcott (2005). “Minima Moralia: Reflections on a Damaged Life”, p.15, Verso

Rampant technolgy eliminates luxury, but not by declaring privilege a human right; rather, it does so by both raising the general standard of living and cutting off the possibility of fulfilment.

Theodor Adorno
Life, Cutting, Luxury
Theodor W. Adorno, E. F. N. Jephcott (2005). “Minima Moralia: Reflections on a Damaged Life”, p.119, Verso

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