Life Quotes

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

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"When a man is tired of London, he is tired of life."
Charles Dickens
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"Sorrow and disappointment are the price we pay for the gift of being alive."
Charles Dickens
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"Nobody said life was going to be easy."
Charles Dickens
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"In the end, it is not the years in your life that count, but the life in your years."
Charles Dickens
"The world is too much with us; late and soon, getting and spending, we lay waste our powers."
William Wordsworth
"What is this world but a place of trial?"
William Wordsworth
"Our birth is but a sleep and a forgetting."
William Wordsworth
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"One cannot be deeply responsive to the world without being saddened very often."
Victor Hugo
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"Life is the flower for which love is the honey."
Victor Hugo
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"The greatest object of human life is living in the present moment."
Samuel Taylor Coleridge
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"The human heart is the great mystery of human existence."
Samuel Taylor Coleridge
"Death may be the end, but before that, we must live."
Mary Shelley
"To be human is to feel both joy and sorrow deeply."
Mary Shelley
"To be alive is to suffer and to transcend suffering."
Mary Shelley
"We are all works in progress, forever incomplete."
Mary Shelley
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"To be truly alive is to feel everything, including pain."
Alexandre Dumas
"One's life has value insofar as one adds to the value of all life around one."
Gustave Flaubert
"Life is made up of marble and mud."
Gustave Flaubert
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"The real tragedy in life is not what happens to us, but what we let ourselves become."
Honoré de Balzac
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"The great object of life is sensation, to feel that we exist."
John Keats
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"Nothing ever becomes real till it is experienced."
John Keats
"The world is too much with us; late and soon, getting and spending, we lay waste our powers."
William Wordsworth
"To live fully is to feel deeply."
William Wordsworth
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"What is life but a series of inspired follies?"
Samuel Taylor Coleridge
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"Our birth is but a sleep and a forgetting."
Samuel Taylor Coleridge
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"Life without love is merely existence."
Samuel Taylor Coleridge
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"The great object of life is sensation"
Lord Byron
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"The great object of life is sensation, to feel that we exist in ourselves"
Lord Byron
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"The great object of life is sensation"
Lord Byron
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"The great object of life is sensation, to feel ourselves alive"
Lord Byron