Life Quotes
The big one. What it means, how to live it, and why it's worth the effort.
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"The world's a hard place, Caulfield. It really is."J.D. Salinger
"That's the hell of it, you know."J.D. Salinger
"Sometimes you have to compromise on the things you want."J.D. Salinger
"You can't win them all."J.D. Salinger
"I don't really know how to live my life properly."J.D. Salinger
"What I'm saying is that life is complicated."J.D. Salinger
"The soul is dyed the color of its thoughts"Allen Ginsberg
"You're either in or you're out."William S. Burroughs
"Every man is his own myth."William S. Burroughs
"What is a human being but a collection of habits?"William S. Burroughs
"Every moment is a choice to live or to exist."William S. Burroughs
"The road is life."Jack Kerouac
"There is no place to go but home."Jack Kerouac
"Life is not a paragraph and death is no parenthesis"e.e. cummings
"All nothing's only our hugest home"e.e. cummings
"Our birth is but a sleep and forgetting"e.e. cummings
"My life is a contradiction of disciplines and wildness."Hart Crane
"Life is the greatest adventure of all."Hart Crane
"We are here on Earth to fart around, and don't let anybody tell you different."Kurt Vonnegut
"This is the only way I know how to have a reasonable amount of happiness."Kurt Vonnegut
"The measure of a life is not its length but the depth of attention paid to it."William Carlos Williams
"It's not whether you win or lose but how you play the game that matters in life"Allen Ginsberg
"Living fully means accepting both joy and suffering"Allen Ginsberg
"The only emperor is the emperor of ice-cream."Wallace Stevens
"We live in the mind."Wallace Stevens
"To live is to function."Wallace Stevens
"The theory of poetry is the theory of life."Wallace Stevens
"The world is a thing of ecstasy."Wallace Stevens
"Life consists of propositions about life."Wallace Stevens
"All things are ready in the world."Wallace Stevens