Life Quotes

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

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"To write about life, one must first live it fully."
Seán Ó Faoláin
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"Life is not a rehearsal."
Brendan Behan
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"One drink is too many and a thousand not enough."
Brendan Behan
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"If it's natural to die then it's natural for us to want to live."
Brendan Behan
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"New York is a heaving mass of human beings pretending to be alive."
Brendan Behan
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"I have walked through Dublin and I will never be the same."
Brendan Behan
"Life is not found in the extraordinary moments, but in the ordinary details we overlook"
Patrick Kavanagh
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"All the world's a stage, and all the men and women merely players."
Sean O'Casey
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"I love thatch, the messy accumulation of a life."
Seamus Heaney
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"We are shaped by our choices and our loves."
Seamus Heaney
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"The greatest lesson life taught me is that we are all more capable than we believe."
Christy Brown
"Life is not about finding yourself, it's about creating yourself."
Frank O'Connor
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"Every life contains multitudes, contradictions that make us human."
Seán Ó Faoláin
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"To be truly alive is to feel everything intensely."
Seán Ó Faoláin
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"Life is the interplay between what we plan and what surprises us."
Seán Ó Faoláin
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"The richness of life lies in its details, not its grand gestures."
Seán Ó Faoláin
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"The world is more full of weeping than you can understand."
Sean O'Casey
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"Life is not a rehearsal; it's the real thing."
Sean O'Casey
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"Every moment of life is precious beyond measure."
Sean O'Casey
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"Every person has a story worth telling."
Sean O'Casey
"The tragedy of modern life is not that we are tired but that we are bored."
Patrick Kavanagh
"The ordinary things that happen to ordinary people are the most important."
Patrick Kavanagh
"To live intensely is to truly live."
Patrick Kavanagh
"The measure of a life is not its length but its depth."
Patrick Kavanagh
"A life lived consciously is a life lived fully."
Patrick Kavanagh
"I think that all things in life are luck."
Douglas Coupland
"I wanted to remind myself of the magic of not being a dead person."
Douglas Coupland
"I don't think any of us ever really feel like adults."
Douglas Coupland
"My point is that you can never really know what's coming."
Douglas Coupland
"Never make a person your only reason for living."
Douglas Coupland