Life Quotes
The big one. What it means, how to live it, and why it's worth the effort.
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"I want to be thoroughly used up when I die, for the harder I work the more I live."George Bernard Shaw
"Boredom, that gloomy passion, is what kills you."Gustave Flaubert
"Character is destiny."Gustave Flaubert
"Life is a series of collisions with the future."Gustave Flaubert
"The privilege of a lifetime is becoming who you truly are."George Eliot
"How little we know of the way in which our lives are shaped by the small choices we make daily."George Eliot
"The greatest tragedy is the unlived life."George Eliot
"The child is father of the man"Charles Dickens
"The measure of a life well lived is not in the years, but in the moments"Charles Dickens
"Do not go to the grave with life unlived."Émile Zola
"Every life is a mystery, every life has a thousand stories within it."Émile Zola
"Every individual has a story worth telling."Émile Zola
"Life teaches those who are willing to learn."Émile Zola
"Life is a storm, my young friend. You will bask in the sunshine one moment, be shattered on the rocks the next."Alexandre Dumas
"I am the man of sorrows, acquainted with grief."Alexandre Dumas
"Life is a novel, and the writer does not always know how it will end."Alexandre Dumas
"In youth, we run towards our desires; in old age, away from our fears."Alexandre Dumas
"To live is to suffer but to survive is to find meaning in suffering."Honoré de Balzac
"Life appears to me too short to be spent in nursing animosity or registering wrongs."Charlotte Brontë
"I would always rather be happy than dignified."Charlotte Brontë
"The sweet surprise of life is not always happiness."Charlotte Brontë
"Some people seem to get all sunshine, and some all shadow."Charlotte Brontë
"Life is so constructed as to exasperate us away."Charlotte Brontë
"Joy and sorrow are next door neighbors."Charlotte Brontë
"Each night, when I go to sleep, I die. And the next morning, when I wake up, I am reborn."Victor Hugo
"Mere longevity is a compromise with fate."Victor Hugo
"One must marry one's star or remain unmarried."Gustave Flaubert
"I find life in pieces; I must assemble it into coherence."Gustave Flaubert
"To feel deeply is to suffer greatly."Gustave Flaubert
"To accept life fully is to accept both its joy and its sorrow."Gustave Flaubert