Life Quotes

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

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"My private tragedy is that I have nothing to regret."
Vladimir Nabokov
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"The cradle, the car, the coffin—these three containers carry a man through life."
Vladimir Nabokov
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"My soul is a carnivorous bird."
Vladimir Nabokov
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"The essence of life is its transience."
Vladimir Nabokov
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"The more I see of men, the more I admire dogs."
August Strindberg
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"Life is not a problem to be solved but a mystery to be experienced."
August Strindberg
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"The struggle is the essence of life."
August Strindberg
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"Life is not a problem to be solved, but a reality to be experienced."
Selma Lagerlöf
"The art of living well is the art of choosing what truly matters."
Bjørnstjerne Bjørnson
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"Life is not a problem to be solved but an experience to be lived."
Henrik Ibsen
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"When a great moment knocks on the door of your life, it is often no louder than an ordinary, quiet moment."
Boris Pasternak
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"The riddle of life cannot be solved by a few clever words spoken well."
Boris Pasternak
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"Life is not something that is completed; it is something that happens to you while you are busy making other plans."
Boris Pasternak
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"One should go through life as if one is walking in a forest, responsive to all the marvels within it."
Boris Pasternak
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"To live is to be uncertain, and certainty is a kind of death."
Boris Pasternak
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"In the garden of human experience, weeds and flowers often grow side by side."
Boris Pasternak
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"In the end, we do not remember the days we lived, but the moments we truly felt alive."
Boris Pasternak
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"The meaning of existence lies not in happy social harmony, but in the development of the soul."
Alexander Solzhenitsyn
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"We are born with souls, yet we spend our lives burying them under material concerns."
Alexander Solzhenitsyn
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"Our addiction to ease and comfort has become the chains that bind us."
Alexander Solzhenitsyn
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"To be alive is to be in constant dialogue with one's own conscience."
Alexander Solzhenitsyn
"Life is not about finding yourself, it is about creating yourself."
Bjørnstjerne Bjørnson
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"Man is made of earth and water, and fire burns in his breast."
Maxim Gorky
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"In the sea of life, we are all swimming together."
Maxim Gorky
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"The human heart is the only thing in the world worth having."
Maxim Gorky
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"Legacy is what we leave behind."
Maxim Gorky
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"Pain, then, is a secret."
Vladimir Nabokov
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"My life has been a series of experiments in living, each more authentic than the last."
August Strindberg
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"To be alive is to be at war with ourselves and our circumstances."
August Strindberg
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"To live is to suffer, but in suffering we find our purpose."
Henrik Ibsen