Life Quotes
The big one. What it means, how to live it, and why it's worth the effort.
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"To live is to suffer; to survive is to find meaning in the suffering"Patrick Kavanagh
"Life is not measured by the number of breaths we take but by the moments that take our breath away"Patrick Kavanagh
"Life is like riding a bicycle; to keep your balance, you must keep moving"Patrick Kavanagh
"I have sought many things, but I have found none that satisfied me completely."Fernando Pessoa
"I have been many things and remain none of them."Fernando Pessoa
"Every person contains multitudes; we are never just one."Fernando Pessoa
"Every life is an epic poem, though most never know it."John Banville
"We are all exiles from our own lives."John Banville
"To be alive is to be constantly surprised by yourself."John Banville
"We suffer not from what life gives us, but what we expect from it."José María de Eça de Queirós
"The soul learns through suffering what joy cannot teach."José María de Eça de Queirós
"Life is the greatest story ever told."Padraig Colum
"The self is a fiction we create and recreate daily."John Banville
"Forgetting is as important to survival as remembering."John Banville
"Identity is fluid, shifting with each encounter and reflection."John Banville
"We are all complicit in our own deceptions."John Banville
"To be alive is to be vulnerable, and that vulnerability is where our deepest humanity lies."Patrick Kavanagh
"Life is what happens in the space between your plans and their inevitable collapse."Patrick Kavanagh
"Life is what happens to you while you're busy making other plans."Christy Brown
"To live is the rarest thing in the world. Most people exist, that is all."Christy Brown
"Life has got all those twists and turns. You've got to hold on tight and off you go."Christy Brown
"Life is not a problem to be solved but a reality to be experienced."Seán Ó Faoláin
"The whole business of life is to go forward."Seán Ó Faoláin
"The real voyage of discovery consists not in seeking new landscapes but in having new eyes."Seán Ó Faoláin
"The greatest thing is to be able to live with yourself, to know that you're doing the best you can."Christy Brown
"Life is not orderly. No matter how we try to make life so, right in the middle of it we die, and loose ends up all over the place"Frank O'Connor
"A story has no beginning or end; arbitrarily one chooses that moment of one's experience from which to look back or from which to look ahead"Frank O'Connor
"The great business of life is to be, to do, to do without, and to depart"Frank O'Connor
"A man's life is his character"Frank O'Connor
"To be alive is to be always a little below one's best"Patrick Kavanagh