Life Quotes

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

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"Life itself is the most wonderful fairy tale."
Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart
"Your life is as meaningful as you decide to make it."
Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart
"Why should I die? I have not yet lived."
Claude Debussy
"One must live first before one can create."
Claude Debussy
"In every person lies an unwritten symphony."
Claude Debussy
"Life is too short to create anything but beauty."
Claude Debussy
"Life is a lot like jazz - it's better when you improvise."
George Gershwin
"I need life! life! not death, not this grave in which they wish to bury me."
Frederic Chopin
"The most decisive actions of our life are most often unconsidered actions."
Frederic Chopin
"A life without struggle is a life without meaning."
Ludwig van Beethoven
"Life without purpose is like music without rhythm."
Ludwig van Beethoven
"To live fully is to embrace contradiction without resolving it."
Richard Wagner
"Life is not a problem to be solved, but a mystery to be inhabited."
Richard Wagner
"I measure my life not by years but by the works I have created."
Igor Stravinsky
"Life teaches lessons that no school can provide."
Igor Stravinsky
"The measure of a life well-lived is the beauty one has created."
Igor Stravinsky
"Life without music would be a mistake."
Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart
"The greatest moments in life are those lived with passion."
Giuseppe Verdi
"The measure of a life is not its length, but its depth."
Claude Debussy
"The value of a life is measured by the lives it touches."
Claude Debussy
"Life without art is life without purpose."
Richard Wagner
"A life lived without passion is a life half-lived."
Richard Wagner
"To live authentically is to live dangerously."
Richard Wagner
"I wish I could throw off the thoughts which poison my happiness, but I take a kind of pleasure in indulging them."
Frederic Chopin
"Life is a garden where your thoughts are seeds."
Frederic Chopin
"To live is to suffer; to survive is to find meaning in the suffering."
Ludwig van Beethoven
"Do not say a man has lived long; say he has lived well."
Ludwig van Beethoven
"The greatest symphony is the one played by a life well-lived."
Ludwig van Beethoven
"Life is as much about death as it is about living"
Edvard Munch
"Life is a play in which we all have roles"
Edvard Munch