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 in fact a battle."Henry James
"The two most important days in your life are the day you are born and the day you find out why."Mark Twain
"Be good and you will be lonesome."Mark Twain
"Age is an issue of mind over matter. If you don't mind, it doesn't matter."Mark Twain
"Let us endeavor so to live that when we come to die even the undertaker will be sorry."Mark Twain
"What a strange thing is the propagation of life."Herman Melville
"To live is to function. That is all there is to living."Herman Melville
"The lesson of any life is contained in every moment of it."Nathaniel Hawthorne
"Some people are born to gather moss, and others are born to be stones."Nathaniel Hawthorne
"Life is made up of marble and mud."Nathaniel Hawthorne
"Life is a sexually transmitted disease with a 100% mortality rate."Louis-Ferdinand Céline
"Most people die without ever truly living."Louis-Ferdinand Céline
"Life punishes the optimistic and rewards the cynical."Louis-Ferdinand Céline
"Life is a beautiful struggle."Romain Rolland
"Life is what we make of it."Romain Rolland
"The average man does not know what to do with this life, yet wants another one which will last forever."Anatole France
"The maladies we have deserved are often those that come to us."Anatole France
"Existence is not only meager and happy, but also miserable and deplorable."Anatole France
"The charm of life, if it exist at all, must consist in earnestness."Anatole France
"The charm of life is that it is tragic and fleeting."Anatole France
"The greatest tragedy is to live without passion or purpose."François Mauriac
"We are haunted by the people we might have become."François Mauriac
"We are shaped more by what we love than by what we fear."François Mauriac
"We are all exiles from the innocence of childhood."François Mauriac
"Live all you can; it's a mistake not to"Henry James
"Experience is never limited and it is never complete; it is an immense sensibility"Henry James
"The memory of loss shapes us more than the experience of gain"Henry James
"Life is not a problem to be solved but a reality to be experienced."Louis-Ferdinand Céline
"Our task is not to find the meaning of life but to create meaning in life."Marcel Proust
"The pieces of a person's life can only come together to create a coherent shape when we step back and look at it all from a great distance."Marcel Proust