Life Quotes
The big one. What it means, how to live it, and why it's worth the effort.
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"There's a lot of ugly things in this world, son. I wish I could keep 'em all away from you. That's never possible."Harper Lee
"One does not love breathing."Harper Lee
"When you grow up, you'll realize that the world is a complex place."Harper Lee
"Life is what happens when you are unprepared"Robertson Davies
"Every person is the hero of their own story"Robertson Davies
"Accepting oneself does not preclude an attempt to become better."Flannery O'Connor
"We cannot live without difficulty; it is what makes us human."Flannery O'Connor
"The world is a hard place. It don't care. It don't care if you're tired."Cormac McCarthy
"To be alive is to be uncertain. You never know what's coming next."Cormac McCarthy
"Everything takes the life out of you. I don't care what it is."Cormac McCarthy
"The human heart is a lonely hunter, but it does hunt."Carson McCullers
"We are the sum of all that we have experienced."Carson McCullers
"The journey inward is the most important journey we take."Carson McCullers
"We are all travelers on the same journey."Carson McCullers
"The meaning of life is bound up with the meaning of love."Carson McCullers
"To be alive is to feel deeply."Carson McCullers
"Life is a lonely walker on a long road."Carson McCullers
"The act of living is different all through life. It's not one thing, but a sequence."Eudora Welty
"We are only alive now, in this moment."Eudora Welty
"To live is to be invaded by the unexpected."Eudora Welty
"Every moment contains the potential for discovery."Eudora Welty
"A life well-lived is a story worth telling."Eudora Welty
"Life is composed of light and shadow, and you must learn to navigate both."Joyce Carol Oates
"Every human being contains multitudes and contradictions."Joyce Carol Oates
"Every human being deserves to be the hero of their own story."Joyce Carol Oates
"To be fully alive means to feel deeply, both joy and pain."Harper Lee
"Everybody is identical in their secret unspoken belief that way deep down they are different from everyone else."David Foster Wallace
"The so-called 'point' of life is usually obscured by the living of it."David Foster Wallace
"That is what it is to be human: to seem to want one thing and to need another."David Foster Wallace
"To be in the world is to be wounded by it."David Foster Wallace