Life Quotes

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

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"To suffer is to be alive; to be alive is to suffer."
David Foster Wallace
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"I want to live. The world is disagreeable; it is often impossible and ridiculous—but I want to live."
Saul Bellow
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"What do you do with yourself when reality leaves you cold?"
Saul Bellow
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"We are dying from thinness and emptiness."
Saul Bellow
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"Nothing can be drearier than a quiet, orderly, sensible world."
Saul Bellow
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"Modern reality is a brutalized reality."
Saul Bellow
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"Every man is his own greatest enemy."
Saul Bellow
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"There is something about abundance that makes us want to multiply our lives."
Saul Bellow
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"A man cannot have it all."
Saul Bellow
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"People want to think life is very wonderful and very wise."
Saul Bellow
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"The greatest thing is the human being itself."
Saul Bellow
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"The secret of life is to find your true self."
Saul Bellow
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"The human being is a strange and wonderful creature."
Saul Bellow
"In every heart there is some sadness and some violence. No exception."
Cormac McCarthy
"We're all looking for a way out of the human condition."
Philip Roth
"No one in this world gets an easy birth, excepting S.O.B.s."
Philip Roth
"One cannot be deeply responsive to the world without being saddened very often."
Philip Roth
"There's no getting around it: life is tremendously exciting."
Philip Roth
"Real life is not this, but something much simpler and rougher."
Philip Roth
"The human condition is the condition of conflict."
Philip Roth
"Suffering makes you human."
Philip Roth
"Life is not a novel."
Philip Roth
"We are all living a performance."
Philip Roth
"We spend our lives searching for belonging when it often lies within ourselves."
Carson McCullers
"The measure of a life is not its length but its depth."
Carson McCullers
"In our longing for others, we discover who we are meant to become."
Carson McCullers
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"Anybody who has survived his childhood has enough information about life to last him the rest of his days."
Flannery O'Connor
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"She would of been a good woman if it had been somebody there to shoot her every minute of her life."
Flannery O'Connor
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"A good man is hard to find and even harder to believe in."
Flannery O'Connor
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"It is better to be young and proud than old and humble."
Flannery O'Connor