Life Quotes
The big one. What it means, how to live it, and why it's worth the effort.
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"One should live as if one will die tomorrow and learn as if one will live forever."Gustave Flaubert
"Life is a struggle, and struggle itself is what gives life meaning."Émile Zola
"Life is a thread, and we are but the needles that pass through it."Alexandre Dumas
"Life is an adventure meant to be lived fully."Alexandre Dumas
"Life and death appeared to me ideal bounds, which I should first break through."Mary Shelley
"Life is so constructed that the event does not, cannot, will not match the expectation."Charlotte Brontë
"Better to pass dramatically from life than to moulder piecemeal."Charlotte Brontë
"There is a world of tedium and mystery around us."Charlotte Brontë
"Youth is a blessing and a curse upon the human spirit."Charles Dickens
"What makes life bearable is not the absence of suffering but the presence of meaning."Charles Dickens
"We are all works in progress, sculpted by our choices and our loves."Charles Dickens
"To live fully is to accept both triumph and tragedy as essential parts of existence."Émile Zola
"Nine out of ten of what we suffer we create ourselves."Victor Hugo
"It is nothing to die; it is frightful not to live."Victor Hugo
"One cannot be deeply responsive to the world without being saddened very often."Victor Hugo
"I drink the wine of life and pour out love like a libation."Victor Hugo
"No one can construct for you the bridge upon which precisely you must cross the stream of life."Victor Hugo
"There is a moment in childhood when the door opens and lets the future in."Victor Hugo
"The value of a life is not measured by its length, but by its depth."Gustave Flaubert
"Life is a thread that God keeps weaving until the pattern is complete."Alexandre Dumas
"The measure of a person lies not in their wealth, but in their character."Alexandre Dumas
"Life teaches harsh lessons to those who refuse to listen to wisdom."Alexandre Dumas
"Life, although it may only be an accumulation of anguish, is dear to me."Mary Shelley
"How mutable are our feelings, and how strange is that clinging love we have of life."Mary Shelley
"Life is neither problem to solve nor puzzle to complete."Émile Zola
"Life must be lived as play"John Keats
"Call the world if you please the vale of soul-making"John Keats
"The great end of life is an exchange of the creative impulse"John Keats
"Pleasure has no show without its pain"John Keats
"Whether I shall turn out to be the hero of my own life depends wholly on these pages."Charles Dickens