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
"The tragedy of life is that we understand it only when it ends."Eça de Queirós
"Life punishes not our vices but our indifference."Eça de Queirós
"To live authentically is to live according to one's conscience, not society's demands."Alexandre Herculano
"In every ending is the seed of a new beginning."Alexandre Herculano
"To live is to change, and to refuse change is to refuse life itself."Alexandre Herculano
"The human condition is defined not by our circumstances, but by our response to them."Alexandre Herculano
"Each of us is several, is many, is a profusion of selves."Fernando Pessoa
"Living is like working with a blunt tool."Fernando Pessoa
"To live is to think."Fernando Pessoa
"I have felt everything deeply."Fernando Pessoa
"To feel is to exist."Fernando Pessoa
"Man is not born for happiness; he is born to suffer and to die."José María de Eça de Queirós
"Life teaches through suffering; comfort is its worst enemy."José María de Eça de Queirós
"We are all wanderers on this earth."John Banville
"The soul yearns for meaning."John Banville
"Life is a mystery to be lived."John Banville
"We are all actors in a comedy we didn't write ourselves."Eça de Queirós
"We are all passengers on a ship we did not board, sailing toward a destination we do not know."Saramago
"We are the stories we tell ourselves about ourselves."Saramago
"We live in the tension between who we are and who we wish to become."Saramago
"The question is not whether we will die, but how we will live."Saramago
"We are all walking contradictions, and that is precisely what makes us human."Saramago
"The greatest journey is the one that begins within the human heart."Luís de Camões
"Every soul carries within it the potential for greatness."Luís de Camões
"Life teaches us lessons that no school could ever adequately convey."José María de Eça de Queirós
"To live is to experience everything and judge nothing."Fernando Pessoa
"A vida é um livro escrito por cada um de nós com nossas escolhas."Almeida Garrett
"A vida é para ser vivida, não apenas para ser observada."Almeida Garrett
"Life is a song to be sung, not merely lived."Padraig Colum