Life Quotes

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

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"I have a longing for life, and I go on living in spite of logic"
Dmitri Karamazov
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"To love life more than the meaning of life—that is the human tragedy"
Dmitri Karamazov
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"I would drink to the joy of living, even knowing it is fleeting"
Dmitri Karamazov
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"I want to live, and I go on living in spite of logic"
Dmitri Karamazov
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"I suffer, but I am alive, and that is something"
Dmitri Karamazov
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"What does it matter if I am guilty, if I am alive?"
Dmitri Karamazov
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"I am not a murderer of souls, but a lover of life"
Dmitri Karamazov
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"To be truly alive is to be truly guilty"
Dmitri Karamazov
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"Life, don't talk to me about life."
Marvin the Paranoid Android
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"The only thing that makes life possible is permanent, intolerable uncertainty"
Therem Harth rem ir Estraven
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"We are born alone and we die alone, but in between we touch"
Therem Harth rem ir Estraven
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"Life is a storm, my young friend. You will bask in the sun one moment, be shattered on the rocks the next."
Edmond Dantès
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"I have but one passion—to live and to suffer."
Edmond Dantès
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"I have learned that to live is to suffer."
Edmond Dantès
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"Life, although it may only be an accumulation of anguish, is dear to me."
The Creature
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"A woman's life is divided into before children and after."
Laila
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"Our life is what our thoughts make it."
Marcus Aurelius
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"In a word, I might have been as good as another, if not better."
Pip
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"There is a great crowd of people here"
Lucie Manette
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"The mysteries of life are the colorless unities of which existence is composed."
The Narrator
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"It is a matter of perfect indifference to me. It matters very little to any one in this country what you do."
Miss Havisham
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"There are certain queer times and occasions in this strange mixed affair we call life."
Ishmael
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"There have been sorrow enough in my life to make me phantasmagoric."
Pip
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"I felt as if I had been living a more real life during those few months than before or after."
Jane Eyre
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"There is no steady unreeling progress in this life; we do not advance through fixed gradations, and at the last one pause."
Ishmael
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"I have always thought that a man might pass through the world very well without picking and choosing."
Joe Gargery
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"The tragedy of old age is not that one is old, but that one is young."
Lord Henry Wotton
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"One's life matters most."
Dorian Gray
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"The secret of life is to appreciate the pleasure of being terribly, terribly deceived."
Lord Henry Wotton
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"The charm of life is in its variety."
Mr. Rochester