Life Quotes

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

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"The unexamined life is not worth living, nor is the unlived life worth examining."
Henrik Ibsen
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"Every person carries within them unexplored potential."
Henrik Ibsen
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"There is no such thing as an ordinary human life, every man contains multitudes."
Boris Pasternak
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"One should not go to the theater if one wants to commit suicide."
Boris Pasternak
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"The whole of life has become a substitute for what it might have been."
Boris Pasternak
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"The price of living fully is the willingness to be fully alive."
Boris Pasternak
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"I love humanity, but I hate people."
Nikolai Gogol
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"Life is what happens to you while you're busy making other plans."
Nikolai Gogol
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"The purpose of life is not to be happy. It is to be useful."
Nikolai Gogol
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"To live is to suffer; to survive is to find some meaning in the suffering."
Nikolai Gogol
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"Man's dearest possession is life, and since it is given him but once, he must so live as not to be seared by the pain of living uselessly."
Maxim Gorky
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"A man who does not work is a man who has forgotten how to live."
Maxim Gorky
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"We are dying without noticing it, if we lose the ability to be astonished at our own existence."
Alexander Solzhenitsyn
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"A man who loses his ability to wonder has lost his soul."
Alexander Solzhenitsyn
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"Life is a terrible, senseless game."
Mikhail Lermontov
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"I am never bored; one cannot be bored by life itself."
Mikhail Lermontov
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"Life is a great big canvas; throw all the paint you can at it."
Vladimir Nabokov
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"My life is a hymn to the joy of movement."
Vladimir Nabokov
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"To live is to read one's self constantly."
Vladimir Nabokov
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"To live is to feel, to suffer."
Aleksandr Pushkin
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"Life is precious and fleeting."
Aleksandr Pushkin
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"The world is a strange place; strange people appear in it."
Nikolai Gogol
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"Man is born to live, not to prepare for life."
Boris Pasternak
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"To be alive is to feel the weight of joy and sorrow equally."
Boris Pasternak
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"To live is to fight; to exist is to suffer."
Maxim Gorky
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"The greatest thing in the world is to know how to belong to oneself."
Ivan Turgenev
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"We all know that life is a complex affair, and that things are seldom all black or all white."
Ivan Turgenev
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"The purpose of life is not happiness but growth."
Ivan Turgenev
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"Life is short, and we should make the best use of it."
Ivan Turgenev
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"The most important part of life is the choice one makes."
Ivan Turgenev