Life Quotes

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

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"The voice of the heart speaks louder than the voice of reason."
Aleksandr Pushkin
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"To live without passion is to merely exist."
Aleksandr Pushkin
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"The rhythm of life is found in the beating of the human heart."
Aleksandr Pushkin
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"We are all born for a purpose, though we may never know it."
Ivan Turgenev
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"In the garden of life, weeds and flowers grow together."
Ivan Turgenev
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"Monotony is the price we pay for order and stability."
Mikhail Lermontov
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"We are condemned to live with the consequences of our youthful passions."
Mikhail Lermontov
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"We are all actors in plays we did not choose to perform."
Mikhail Lermontov
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"I dance with demons because the angels bore me."
Mikhail Lermontov
"The tears of the world are a constant quantity. For each one that dries, another falls."
Samuel Beckett
"We are all born mad. Some remain so."
Samuel Beckett
"I have little to say, I have said it, and I am saying it still."
Samuel Beckett
"The chronic suffering of existence itself."
Samuel Beckett
"I was born betrayed and I have no love of life."
Samuel Beckett
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"The difficulty in writing about eating is that it is so much nicer to do it than to write about it."
James Joyce
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"He was a man of small ventures. His life had taken the form it was to hold for ever."
James Joyce
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"I will not say that your life is less interesting."
James Joyce
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"I don't love my life, but I live it."
James Joyce
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"The mystery of human existence lies not in just staying alive, but in finding something to live for."
Fyodor Dostoevsky
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"Life is in movement, not in stillness."
Fyodor Dostoevsky
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"The human soul craves meaning above all else."
Fyodor Dostoevsky
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"Boredom is the desire for desires."
Leo Tolstoy
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"The task of man is to find happiness in understanding life's purpose."
Leo Tolstoy
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"Our life is either dreadfully important or dreadfully unimportant, and we seem not to know which."
Leo Tolstoy
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"Life has meaning only in the struggle. Triumph or defeat is in the hands of the Gods."
Leo Tolstoy
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"It is impossible to live without knowing what you do not know about living."
Anton Chekhov
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"Life is hard and confusing, and nobody's giving you an instruction manual."
Anton Chekhov
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"It is a fact that the old can be bored no less than the young."
Anton Chekhov
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"Even if we accept that human life is meaningless, the answer lies not in suicide."
Anton Chekhov
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"What is required is that we should love our life."
Anton Chekhov