Life Quotes

The big one. What it means, how to live it, and why it's worth the effort.

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"Life is too short for regrets—only lessons."
Paul Varjak
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"A life lived only in duty is incomplete."
Princess Anne
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"A simple life, fully lived, is better than a grand life merely endured."
Princess Anne
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"How does it feel to be a princess?"
Joe Bradley
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"The moments that change us are rarely the ones we expect."
Joe Bradley
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"The poor dope. He always wanted a pool. Well, in the end, he got a pool."
Joe Gillis
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"There's always a price for paradise, and it's usually too high."
Joe Gillis
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"The valley of the dolls. That's what they call this town."
Joe Gillis
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"Life's too short to be living somebody else's dream."
Norma Desmond
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"Life's too short to hold gwudges."
Elmer Fudd
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Elmer Fudd
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"I don't know how to say goodbye. I can't think of any words."
Princess Anne
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"I want to live, not just exist."
Princess Anne
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"A man's life is his monument. What he builds, what he destroys, what he loves—that is his legacy."
Jedediah Leland
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"I have known power, and it is a colder companion than any I expected."
Jedediah Leland
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"I learned that everything we build is built on sand."
Jedediah Leland
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"The monkey had me in hand."
Norma Desmond
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"Life without you is like a day without sunshine."
Norma Desmond
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"The best part of my life was on the screen."
Norma Desmond
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"I've loved and lost... but I've lived."
Norma Desmond
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"What is life but a series of performances? We are all acting all the time."
Max von Mayerling
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"In the end, we are all merely supporting players in someone else's dream."
Max von Mayerling
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"That's the story of an American life."
Charles Foster Kane
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"I built an empire, but lost my way."
Charles Foster Kane
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"I was a man who had everything, and yet nothing at all."
Jedediah Leland
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"Every man builds his own tomb with his choices."
Jedediah Leland
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"Every moment of life is a choice between action and surrender."
Captain Love
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"Life is what happens when you're not performing for an audience."
Susan Alexander
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"He built Xanadu, but he couldn't build a home."
Susan Alexander
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"I think the greatest tragedy is a life unlived."
Susan Alexander