Life Quotes
The big one. What it means, how to live it, and why it's worth the effort.
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"The great object of life is sensation, to feel that we exist in ourselves"Lord Byron
"The great object of life is sensation, to truly feel"Lord Byron
"The great object of life is sensation, to feel ourselves alive in this world"Lord Byron
"The great object of life is sensation, the essence of being alive"Lord Byron
"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 to existence."Mary Shelley
"The greatest tragedy is unlived potential."Mary Shelley
"The measure of a life is not its length, but its depth."Mary Shelley
"Life is the flower for which love is the honey."Victor Hugo
"To die is nothing, but it is terrible not to live."Victor Hugo
"Life is a succession of lessons which must be lived to be understood."Victor Hugo
"The great object of life is sensation, to feel that we exist."Jane Austen
"The world is too much with us; late and soon, getting and spending, we lay waste our powers."William Wordsworth
"Our birth is but a sleep and a forgetting."William Wordsworth
"The great object of life is sensation—to feel that we exist."Lord Byron
"Sorrow is the child of too much tenderness."Lord Byron
"Youth is wasted on the young who do not understand its value."Lord Byron
"The worst ills which befal us come from ourselves."Samuel Taylor Coleridge
"A man's life of any worth is a continual allegory."Samuel Taylor Coleridge
"We pay a price for everything we get or take in this world; and the higher the price in the end."Samuel Taylor Coleridge
"Life is a journey, not a destination."Samuel Taylor Coleridge
"The worth of a life is not measured in years but in moments of truth."Samuel Taylor Coleridge
"Call the world if you Please 'the vale of Soul-making'."John Keats
"A man's life of any worth is a continual allegory."John Keats
"The great object of life is Sensation, to feel that we exist."John Keats
"Why should we be owls or poets or anything but Sensations."John Keats
"Nor love thy life, nor hate; but what thou livest, live well."John Milton
"The child is father of the man."William Wordsworth
"In every heart there is a room that has not been opened since tragedy took its toll."William Wordsworth
"All the world's a stage, and all the men and women merely players"William Shakespeare