Life Quotes

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

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"I realized that we do not know how to live our own lives."
Luigi Pirandello
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"Life is a very sad play."
Luigi Pirandello
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"Life is what happens when you are busy making other plans."
Luigi Pirandello
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"We are here on Earth to fart around, and don't let anybody tell you different."
Umberto Eco
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"We live through texts."
Umberto Eco
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"We live in a labyrinth of signs and symbols."
Umberto Eco
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"We are all authors of our own narratives."
Umberto Eco
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"The greatest work of art is the life well-lived."
Umberto Eco
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"We are all living inside someone else's story."
Umberto Eco
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"Passion without reason becomes a fire that consumes everything in its path."
Giovanni Verga
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"Every person's life is a book; some are tragedies, some are epics."
Giosue Carducci
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"Life's greatest adventure is the journey inward to know oneself."
Gabriele D'Annunzio
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"To live fully is to embrace both joy and sorrow as teachers."
Gabriele D'Annunzio
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"Life's meaning is found in service to others."
Alessandro Manzoni
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"Continuity is the essence of human existence."
Italo Calvino
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"Every life is a story waiting to be told."
Italo Calvino
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"Life is a game of chess played in the dark, where you cannot see your own pieces or those of your opponent."
Luigi Pirandello
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"The tragedy of life is not that it ends, but that we often forget to truly live it."
Luigi Pirandello
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"To live is to accept the paradox of being simultaneously alone and connected."
Luigi Pirandello
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"The world is a stage, but none of us knows the script we are following."
Luigi Pirandello
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"To live authentically is to accept that we can never fully be ourselves."
Luigi Pirandello
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"We become what we pretend to be, so we must be careful what we pretend."
Luigi Pirandello
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"We spend our lives trying to answer a question we never asked."
Luigi Pirandello
"Life is a disease; birth is the infection."
Italo Svevo
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"We are here on Earth to fart around, and don't let anybody tell you different."
Umberto Eco
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"To live is to make meaning, and to make meaning is to tell stories."
Umberto Eco
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"Every person carries a story of struggle within them."
Giovanni Verga
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"The cycle of life knows no mercy, only rhythm."
Giovanni Verga
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"The mask we wear becomes our face in time."
Giovanni Verga
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"To live without struggling is to cease to live at all."
Gabriele D'Annunzio