Life Quotes
The big one. What it means, how to live it, and why it's worth the effort.
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"Every life contains a story worthy of being told."Ungaretti
"A man's life is measured not by what he accomplishes, but by what he endures."Giuseppe Tomasi di Lampedusa
"In the end, we are all just trying to leave a mark on infinity."Giuseppe Tomasi di Lampedusa
"To live is to accept the weight of incompleteness."Eugenio Montale
"To be alive is to be incomplete."Eugenio Montale
"Every man dies. Not every man truly lives."Miguel de Unamuno
"The greatest tragedy of life is not death, but the unlived life."Miguel de Unamuno
"The human heart contains multitudes of contradictions."Salvatore Quasimodo
"A life without purpose is like a ship without a rudder."Francisco de Quevedo
"Life is the greatest poem, written in the language of experience."Luis de Góngora
"Each day is a blank page upon which we write our virtue."Garcilaso de la Vega
"The value of a life is measured in love given, not received."Garcilaso de la Vega
"To live fully is to love completely."Garcilaso de la Vega
"Life is what happens while you're making other plans"Federigo Tozzi
"The heart knows what the mind cannot understand"Federigo Tozzi
"A moment of perfect awareness is worth a lifetime of sleep"Ungaretti
"We are made of the same substance as dreams are made of, and our life is surrounded by sleep."Salvatore Quasimodo
"The greatest tragedy is not death, but a life unlived."Salvatore Quasimodo
"We are defined not by what happens to us, but by how we respond."Salvatore Quasimodo
"We live in the gap between what we desire and what is possible."Eugenio Montale
"One cannot say that one fully understands one's own life until it is nearly finished."Giuseppe Tomasi di Lampedusa
"To be truly alive, one must embrace both pleasure and pain."Giuseppe Tomasi di Lampedusa
"Every life is a novel that only the protagonist can truly read."Giuseppe Tomasi di Lampedusa
"Life is the interval between two silences: the one before birth and after death."Giuseppe Tomasi di Lampedusa
"A life without wonder is a life already spent in death."Luis de Góngora
"To live is to choose, but to choose well you must know who you are."Elio Vittorini
"Life is a journey, not a destination."Elio Vittorini
"To live is to feel oneself lost—those are the only men and women who live."Eugenio Montale
"To be alive is to be perpetually uncertain."Eugenio Montale
"To live authentically is to accept the weight of our own becoming."Salvatore Quasimodo