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