Theodor Adorno Quotes on Life
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'But he who dies in despair has lived his whole life in vain.'
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'Mind arose out of existence, as an organ for keeping alive. In reflecting existence, however, it becomes at the same time something else. The existent negates itself as thought upon itself. Such negation is mind's element.'
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'Not only is the self entwined in society; it owes society its existence in the most literal sense.'
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'The man for whom time stretches out painfully is one waiting in vain, disappointed at not finding tomorrow already continuing yesterday.'
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'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.'