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
"When you are old and grey and full of sleep, you may wonder if life has meaning."James Joyce
"The true essence of life is found in simple moments."James Joyce
"Life is the greatest work of art."James Joyce
"Life is not a problem to be solved, but a reality to be experienced."Leo Tolstoy
"Every heart has its own anguish."Leo Tolstoy
"The privilege of a lifetime is to become who you truly are."George Eliot
"Our deeds still travel with us from afar, and what we have been makes us what we are."George Eliot
"Every moment has its sorrow and its joy."George Eliot
"What makes life precious is its uncertainty."George Eliot
"The value of old age depends upon the person who reaches it."Thomas Hardy
"Every moment has its sorrow and every moment has its sweetness."Thomas Hardy
"One cannot feel truly alive without having felt deeply alive to pain."Thomas Hardy
"Every breath we draw is a breath stolen from death."Thomas Hardy
"Life, believe, is not a dream so dark as sages say."Anne Brontë
"The human heart finds a home in this world through its passions."Emily Brontë
"In life, we do not forget; we only learn to live with our memories."Emily Brontë
"Every human heart is a world unto itself."Emily Brontë
"Passion is the very essence of existence."Emily Brontë
"The heart is a lonely hunter."Emily Brontë
"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
"There are two tragedies in life. One is to lose your heart's desire. The other is to gain it."George Bernard Shaw
"Be yourself; everyone else is already taken."Oscar Wilde
"Life is far too important a thing ever to talk seriously about."Oscar Wilde
"One's real life is so often the life that one does not lead."Oscar Wilde
"The supreme object of life is to live. Few people live."Oscar Wilde
"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
"That was the way to begin life—to open the shutters of your soul."James Joyce
"They lived and laughed and loved and left."James Joyce
"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