Quotes by Blaise Pascal

“Love knows no limit to its endurance, no end to its trust, no fading of its hope; it can outlast anything. Love still stands when all else has fallen.”

“Distraction is the only thing that consoles us for our miseries. Yet it is itself the greatest of our miseries.”

“If I had more time I would write a shorter letter.”

“Human beings do not know their place and purpose. They have fallen from their true place, and lost their true purpose. They search everywhere for their place and purpose, with great anxiety. But they cannot find them because they are surrounded by darkness.”

“It's not those who write the laws that have the greatest impact on society. It's those who write the songs.”

“We are not satisfied with real life; we want to live some imaginary life in the eyes of other people and to seem different from what we actually are.”

“Happiness is neither within us, nor without us. It is in the union of ourselves with God.”