Life Quotes

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

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"We are dying from overthinking."
Louis-Ferdinand Céline
"Life is beautiful."
Louis-Ferdinand Céline
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"Live all you can; it's a mistake not to."
Henry James
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"One cannot be deeply responsive to the world without being saddened very often."
Henry James
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"Passion ruined you, but it also saved you."
Henry James
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"The art of life is to know how to enjoy it."
Henry James
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"Life is a predicament which precedes manners."
Henry James
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"Suffering and sadness are part of the human experience."
Henry James
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"Life in general leaves much to be desired."
Henry James
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"What a gift to be conscious and to feel deeply."
Henry James
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"Life is a journey, not a destination."
François Mauriac
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"We are all works in progress."
François Mauriac
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"Life without love is merely existence."
François Mauriac
"The turning point of my life came when I realized that nobody owed me a single thing."
Mark Twain
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"Life is what we make of it; we are the authors of our own story."
Nathaniel Hawthorne
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"We must cultivate our garden, both literal and spiritual."
Nathaniel Hawthorne
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"A man's legacy is measured by the lives he has touched."
Nathaniel Hawthorne
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"To be born is to be wrecked on an island."
Herman Melville
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"A life without purpose is a ship without a rudder."
Herman Melville
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"The number of things one must take into account in order to live decently are so many that it is better to give up altogether."
Anatole France
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"Existence is not only perilous; it is absurd."
Anatole France
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"One cannot be deeply responsive to the world without being saddened very often."
Anatole France
"The world is a stage, and we are all poor players fumbling through our parts."
Louis-Ferdinand Céline
"We are all performers in a tragedy we did not write."
Louis-Ferdinand Céline
"Every smile hides the knowledge of eventual death."
Louis-Ferdinand Céline
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"Suffering teaches us what joy alone never could."
François Mauriac
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"The life well-lived is often the one least lived according to plan."
François Mauriac
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"To live is so startling it leaves little time for anything else."
Emily Dickinson
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"Our share of night to bear, our share of morning."
Emily Dickinson
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"That it will never come again is what makes life so sweet."
Emily Dickinson