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 matter of endurance and perseverance."
William Faulkner
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"All people are alive due to accidents."
William Faulkner
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"Life is both terrible and beautiful."
William Faulkner
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"Life for me ain't been no crystal stair."
Langston Hughes
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"Life is a journey, not a destination."
Langston Hughes
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"The world is a fine place and worth fighting for."
Ernest Hemingway
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"I love sleep. My life has the tendency to fall apart when I'm awake."
Ernest Hemingway
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"Life is just a dirty four letter word."
Ernest Hemingway
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"Drinking is a way of ending the day."
Ernest Hemingway
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"It is good to have an end to journey toward; but it is the journey that matters, in the end."
Ernest Hemingway
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"One cat just leads to another."
Ernest Hemingway
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"The sun also rises and sets."
Ernest Hemingway
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"There are only the pursued, the pursuing, the busy, and the tired."
F. Scott Fitzgerald
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"I hope she'll be a fool—that's the best thing a girl can be in this world, a beautiful little fool."
F. Scott Fitzgerald
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"There's no such thing as a second act in American lives."
F. Scott Fitzgerald
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"I was alive and that is what mattered."
F. Scott Fitzgerald
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"Life is like that. You're climbing a staircase that stretches toward the sky."
F. Scott Fitzgerald
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"I want a busy life, a just mind, and a timely death."
Zora Neale Hurston
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"The challenge of life is making a worthy picture of oneself."
Zora Neale Hurston
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"I want to deserve to have been lived."
Zora Neale Hurston
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"There are days when I bemoan the fact that I cannot fly, but on the whole I do not regret being earthbound."
James Baldwin
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"I had quite a different, more immediate sense of my place in the world when I was a young man."
James Baldwin
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"One of the many things nobody ever tells you about middle age is that it's such a nice change from being young."
James Baldwin
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"Everything that happens to us is a thread in the tapestry of our life."
Pearl S. Buck
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"Life's greatest journey is the journey within oneself."
Pearl S. Buck
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"We are the sum total of our choices and our actions."
Pearl S. Buck
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"The only person you are destined to become is the person you decide to be."
Sinclair Lewis
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"All of us contain selves of indefinable depth and breadth and height."
John Steinbeck
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"I wonder how many people I've looked at all my life and never really seen them."
John Steinbeck
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"Humans seem to feel that they are not enough on their own."
John Steinbeck