Life Quotes

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

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"The greatest stories are written in human hearts."
Padraig Colum
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"We are all, in a sense, exiles from our own lives."
John Banville
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"We live in the wreckage of our intentions."
John Banville
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"The self is a performance we perfect over time."
John Banville
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"We are all ghosts haunting our own lives."
John Banville
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"We are always writing our lives backwards."
John Banville
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"Life is not measured by the breaths we take, but by the moments that take our breath away."
Luís de Camões
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"The world is a great theatre where we are all actors playing our assigned roles."
Eça de Queirós
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"We construct elaborate meanings to avoid confronting life's emptiness."
Eça de Queirós
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"A person is not just a body, but also a story."
Saramago
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"We live as if we are going to live forever, and then we die unprepared."
Saramago
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"We tell ourselves stories to survive."
Saramago
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"We are all waiting for our story to begin, but it already has."
Saramago
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"To be human is to be complicated."
Austin Clarke
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"Every life contains untold stories waiting to be discovered."
Austin Clarke
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"The world is a theater, and we are merely players in someone else's dream."
Fernando Pessoa
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"Destiny is what we call choices we didn't make."
Fernando Pessoa
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"Suffering is proof that we are alive and aware."
Fernando Pessoa
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"I wanted to be everything, and that is why I became nothing."
Fernando Pessoa
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"I am the distance between what I am and what I wish to be."
Fernando Pessoa
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"The greatest tragedy is not what happens to us, but what we become because of it."
José María de Eça de Queirós
J
"We deceive ourselves more skillfully than any enemy could deceive us."
José María de Eça de Queirós
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"We are all broken in some way; some are merely better at hiding it."
José María de Eça de Queirós
J
"The cruelest prison is the one we build for ourselves."
José María de Eça de Queirós
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"The essence of tragedy is not suffering, but suffering without purpose."
José María de Eça de Queirós
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"We are all travelers on the same long road; some are merely ahead of others."
Padraig Colum
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"We live as if we were never going to die, and die as if we had never lived."
Saramago
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"Every person carries within them an untold story waiting to be lived."
Luís de Camões
"Life is what happens while you're busy making other plans"
Patrick Kavanagh
"I have a rendezvous with life"
Patrick Kavanagh