Life Quotes
The big one. What it means, how to live it, and why it's worth the effort.
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"Life is a good deal that we might as well enjoy."Eudora Welty
"The measure of a life is not its duration but its depth."Cormac McCarthy
"What am I doing, and why does any of it matter?"David Foster Wallace
"We are dying from overthinking about living."David Foster Wallace
"Most people die without ever really living."David Foster Wallace
"The gift of life is the chance to figure out what life is about."David Foster Wallace
"The world doesn't care if you're ready or not."Harper Lee
"Life is a thing that happens to you while you're making other plans."Saul Bellow
"Bewilderment is the only honest response to life."Saul Bellow
"To be alive is to be surrounded by mysteries you cannot solve."Saul Bellow
"Life is best understood backwards but must be lived forwards."Saul Bellow
"The life of a man is his image of himself."Norman Mailer
"One must find meaning in the struggle."Norman Mailer
"One's legacy is what one leaves behind."Norman Mailer
"I'm dying, and I'm going to be a long time dead."Joseph Heller
"Nothing ever happens in the real world."Joseph Heller
"Life is what you make of it."Joseph Heller
"Meaning is something we impose on the world. It doesn't exist inherently."Cormac McCarthy
"Impotence, inadequacy, invisibility—the major themes of my life."Philip Roth
"We mistake our circumstances for our destiny."Philip Roth
"We are all actors on the stage of history."Philip Roth
"Nothing is more important than feeling alive."Philip Roth
"The real unforgivable act is not violence, but boredom."David Foster Wallace
"We accept the reality of the world we are presented with, which is really strange."David Foster Wallace
"The irony of consciousness is that it makes us aware of everything we can't change."David Foster Wallace
"Boredom is actually the soul's way of telling you something is wrong."David Foster Wallace
"The tragedy is not that we die but that we live without really living."David Foster Wallace
"We are always looking for the meaning of life while living it."Saul Bellow
"If you really want to hear about it, the first thing you'll probably want to know is where I was born and what my lousy childhood was like and how my parents were occupied and all before they had me."J.D. Salinger
"The worst thing that ever happened to me was my life."J.D. Salinger