Life Quotes

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

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"We are all actors playing roles we never chose."
Eça de Queirós
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"The tragedy of life is that we understand it only when it ends."
Eça de Queirós
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"Life punishes not our vices but our indifference."
Eça de Queirós
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"To live authentically is to live according to one's conscience, not society's demands."
Alexandre Herculano
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"In every ending is the seed of a new beginning."
Alexandre Herculano
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"To live is to change, and to refuse change is to refuse life itself."
Alexandre Herculano
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"The human condition is defined not by our circumstances, but by our response to them."
Alexandre Herculano
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"Each of us is several, is many, is a profusion of selves."
Fernando Pessoa
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"Living is like working with a blunt tool."
Fernando Pessoa
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"To live is to think."
Fernando Pessoa
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"I have felt everything deeply."
Fernando Pessoa
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"To feel is to exist."
Fernando Pessoa
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"Man is not born for happiness; he is born to suffer and to die."
José María de Eça de Queirós
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"Life teaches through suffering; comfort is its worst enemy."
José María de Eça de Queirós
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"We are all wanderers on this earth."
John Banville
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"The soul yearns for meaning."
John Banville
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"Life is a mystery to be lived."
John Banville
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"We are all actors in a comedy we didn't write ourselves."
Eça de Queirós
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"We are all passengers on a ship we did not board, sailing toward a destination we do not know."
Saramago
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"We are the stories we tell ourselves about ourselves."
Saramago
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"We live in the tension between who we are and who we wish to become."
Saramago
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"The question is not whether we will die, but how we will live."
Saramago
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"We are all walking contradictions, and that is precisely what makes us human."
Saramago
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"The greatest journey is the one that begins within the human heart."
Luís de Camões
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"Every soul carries within it the potential for greatness."
Luís de Camões
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"Life teaches us lessons that no school could ever adequately convey."
José María de Eça de Queirós
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"To live is to experience everything and judge nothing."
Fernando Pessoa
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"A vida é um livro escrito por cada um de nós com nossas escolhas."
Almeida Garrett
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"A vida é para ser vivida, não apenas para ser observada."
Almeida Garrett
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"Life is a song to be sung, not merely lived."
Padraig Colum