Life Quotes

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

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"How now! What news?"
William Shakespeare
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"The web of our life is of a mingled yarn, good and ill together"
William Shakespeare
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"The web of our life is of a mingled yarn, good and ill together"
William Shakespeare
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"The great object of life is sensation - to feel that we exist."
Lord Byron
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"The great object of life is sensation - to feel anything rather than nothing at all."
Lord Byron
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"The great object of life is sensation - and the greatest intensities of sensation are pain and pleasure."
Lord Byron
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"The great object of life is sensation; to feel that we exist."
Lord Byron
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"I am not merry; but I love to live."
Lord Byron
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"The great object of life is sensation - to think, to feel, to act."
Lord Byron
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"The great object of life is sensation - to experience all that is possible."
Lord Byron
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"The great object of life is sensation - to feel deeply and truly."
Lord Byron
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"The great object is to live, not merely to exist."
Lord Byron
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"A living man can work; a dead man cannot."
Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
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"Life flows through the eternal, like rivers through the eternal land."
Samuel Taylor Coleridge
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"The pursuit of pleasure without purpose leads to emptiness."
John Milton
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"All the world's a stage, and all the men and women merely players"
William Shakespeare
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"The web of our life is of a mingled yarn, good and ill together"
William Shakespeare
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"And all the men and women merely players"
William Shakespeare
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"All the world's a stage, and all the men and women merely players in it"
William Shakespeare
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"The web of life is woven by millions of threads"
William Shakespeare
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"Where is the life we have lost in living?"
William Shakespeare
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"The great object of life is sensation—to feel that we exist."
Lord Byron
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"The world is a stage, and all must play their part."
Lord Byron
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"Live as if you were to die tomorrow."
Lord Byron
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"The measure of life is not its length but its depth."
Lord Byron
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"In the middle of the journey of our life, I came to myself in a dark wood."
Dante Alighieri
"Our birth is but a sleep and a forgetting."
William Wordsworth
"A man's life of any worth is a continual allegory and is never anything else."
William Wordsworth
"The lyf so short, the craft so long to lerne."
Geoffrey Chaucer
"Where as a man hath been in such meschief, him liste nat to laughe."
Geoffrey Chaucer