Life Quotes

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

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"We live to die and die to live."
Samuel Beckett
J
"When you are old and grey and full of sleep, you may wonder if life has meaning."
James Joyce
J
"The true essence of life is found in simple moments."
James Joyce
J
"Life is the greatest work of art."
James Joyce
L
"Life is not a problem to be solved, but a reality to be experienced."
Leo Tolstoy
L
"Every heart has its own anguish."
Leo Tolstoy
G
"The privilege of a lifetime is to become who you truly are."
George Eliot
G
"Our deeds still travel with us from afar, and what we have been makes us what we are."
George Eliot
G
"Every moment has its sorrow and its joy."
George Eliot
G
"What makes life precious is its uncertainty."
George Eliot
T
"The value of old age depends upon the person who reaches it."
Thomas Hardy
T
"Every moment has its sorrow and every moment has its sweetness."
Thomas Hardy
T
"One cannot feel truly alive without having felt deeply alive to pain."
Thomas Hardy
T
"Every breath we draw is a breath stolen from death."
Thomas Hardy
A
"Life, believe, is not a dream so dark as sages say."
Anne Brontë
E
"The human heart finds a home in this world through its passions."
Emily Brontë
E
"In life, we do not forget; we only learn to live with our memories."
Emily Brontë
E
"Every human heart is a world unto itself."
Emily Brontë
E
"Passion is the very essence of existence."
Emily Brontë
E
"The heart is a lonely hunter."
Emily Brontë
G
"Life will not stand still. Right and wrong have been invaluably intermixed since Adam's days, but there is not and never was a day when they were not there."
George Bernard Shaw
G
"There are two tragedies in life. One is to lose your heart's desire. The other is to gain it."
George Bernard Shaw
O
"Be yourself; everyone else is already taken."
Oscar Wilde
O
"Life is far too important a thing ever to talk seriously about."
Oscar Wilde
O
"One's real life is so often the life that one does not lead."
Oscar Wilde
O
"The supreme object of life is to live. Few people live."
Oscar Wilde
J
"Every life is in many days, day after day. We walk through ourselves, meeting robbers, ghosts, giants, old men, young men, wives, widows, brothers-in-law. But always meeting ourselves."
James Joyce
J
"That was the way to begin life—to open the shutters of your soul."
James Joyce
J
"They lived and laughed and loved and left."
James Joyce
A
"Life, believe, is not a dream so dark as sages say, and death, I think, has little left of what we fear in death."
Anne Brontë