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