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 what happens while you're making other plans."Ivan Turgenev
"We live not by hope, but by memory and habit."Aleksandr Pushkin
"To live fully is to embrace all contradictions."Aleksandr Pushkin
"Any idiot can face a crisis, it is the day to day living that wears you out."Anton Chekhov
"Life is what you make of it, always has been, always will be."Anton Chekhov
"The world treats us roughly and we learn to treat it less sentimentally as a consequence."Anton Chekhov
"When one is young, everything seems possible; when one is old, the whole truth is evident."Anton Chekhov
"A man who has never doubted has never truly lived."Mikhail Lermontov
"Boredom is the rust that accumulates on an idle soul."Mikhail Lermontov
"The greatest tragedy is a potential that was never fully realized."Mikhail Lermontov
"Life is the art of drawing without an eraser."Mikhail Lermontov
"The cradle rocks above an abyss, and common sense tells us that our existence is but a brief crack of light between two eternities of darkness."Vladimir Nabokov
"In the end, we are all defined by the choices we did not make."Vladimir Nabokov
"We die, we are born, we die again, and in between we create."Vladimir Nabokov
"Life is what we make of the time we have been given."Vladimir Nabokov
"Man is often a slave to his own passions and desires."Nikolai Gogol
"We are all actors on a stage not of our making."Nikolai Gogol
"We are the sum of our moments, not our intentions."Nikolai Gogol
"Without suffering, what is the pleasure of life"Fyodor Dostoevsky
"The mystery of human existence lies not in just staying alive, but in finding something to live for"Fyodor Dostoevsky
"If you want to understand, go to life, not to books"Fyodor Dostoevsky
"Two plus two makes four is no longer life, gentlemen, but the beginning of death"Fyodor Dostoevsky
"Every person has something to live for"Fyodor Dostoevsky
"Man is sometimes extraordinarily, passionately in love with suffering"Fyodor Dostoevsky
"I love life dearly, even in its sorrows"Fyodor Dostoevsky
"Life is a miracle, even in its sorrows"Fyodor Dostoevsky
"The person who has lived the most is not the one who has lived the longest, but the one who has felt the most."Maxim Gorky
"To live fully is to embrace both joy and sorrow without resistance."Maxim Gorky
"A person's legacy is determined not by their words but by their deeds."Maxim Gorky
"One can live wonderfully without doing anything."Ivan Turgenev