Life Quotes

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

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"A man may be born, but in order to be born he must first die, and in order to die he must first awake."
Jonathan Swift
"To live without passion is to merely exist, not to truly live."
Eliza Haywood
"The world is a stage, and we are all players in a grand performance of our own making."
Aphra Behn
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"Being born into the world is like being issued a problem to solve."
Samuel Johnson
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"The great object of life is sensation, to feel that we exist."
Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley
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"Life and death are balanced on a knife's edge."
Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley
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"We are all exiles from the paradise we once knew."
Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley
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"We are all seeking something we cannot name."
Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley
"The heart knows its own bitterness, and a stranger does not share its joy."
Christina Rossetti
"To live is to feel, and to feel deeply is to truly live."
Christina Rossetti
"We are not measured by the years we live, but by the love we give."
Christina Rossetti
"To live fully is to embrace all that life has to offer, joy and sorrow alike."
Christina Rossetti
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"Life is a precious gift meant to be lived fully and deliberately."
Percy Bysshe Shelley
"To live is to feel, and to feel deeply is to truly live."
Aphra Behn
"The greatest tragedy is to live without passion."
Aphra Behn
"Life is too short for petty grievances and small disputes."
Aphra Behn
"A life lived for others' approval is a life not truly lived."
Eliza Haywood
"What we call fate is often merely the consequence of our own choices."
Eliza Haywood
"Life's greatest lesson is accepting what we cannot change."
Eliza Haywood
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"May you live every day of your life."
Jonathan Swift
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"We are only young once, but we can be immature forever."
Jonathan Swift
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"The great object of life is sensation - to feel that we exist."
Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley
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"We are unfashioned creatures, but half made up."
Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley
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"How fickle are the pleasures of this world."
Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley
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"Life is not measured by the number of breaths we take, but by the moments that take our breath away."
Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley
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"In the mirror of the heart, we see our true nature."
Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley
"The heart knoweth its own bitterness, and a stranger doth not intermeddle with its joy."
Christina Rossetti
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"A man is not completely born until he is dead."
Samuel Johnson
"In the theater of life, we are all both audience and actor."
Aphra Behn
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"The great object of life is sensation; to feel that we exist."
Percy Bysshe Shelley