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
"Live all you can; it's a mistake not to."Henry James
"One cannot be deeply responsive to the world without being saddened very often."Henry James
"Passion ruined you, but it also saved you."Henry James
"The art of life is to know how to enjoy it."Henry James
"Life is a predicament which precedes manners."Henry James
"Suffering and sadness are part of the human experience."Henry James
"Life in general leaves much to be desired."Henry James
"What a gift to be conscious and to feel deeply."Henry James
"Life is a journey, not a destination."François Mauriac
"We are all works in progress."François Mauriac
"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
"Life is what we make of it; we are the authors of our own story."Nathaniel Hawthorne
"We must cultivate our garden, both literal and spiritual."Nathaniel Hawthorne
"A man's legacy is measured by the lives he has touched."Nathaniel Hawthorne
"To be born is to be wrecked on an island."Herman Melville
"A life without purpose is a ship without a rudder."Herman Melville
"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
"Existence is not only perilous; it is absurd."Anatole France
"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
"Suffering teaches us what joy alone never could."François Mauriac
"The life well-lived is often the one least lived according to plan."François Mauriac
"To live is so startling it leaves little time for anything else."Emily Dickinson
"Our share of night to bear, our share of morning."Emily Dickinson
"That it will never come again is what makes life so sweet."Emily Dickinson