Life Quotes
The big one. What it means, how to live it, and why it's worth the effort.
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"There are certain queer times and occasions in this strange mixed affair we call life."Ishmael
"We are not naturally in a state of excitement; that, with most of us, is rather an exception than the rule."Pip
"Life is made of ever so many partings welded together."Pip
"All happy families are alike; each unhappy family is unhappy in its own way."Leo Tolstoy (Narrator)
"Life is not a matter of finding yourself. Life is a matter of creating yourself."Leo Tolstoy (Narrator)
"The difficulty is not in dying, but in living."Leo Tolstoy (Narrator)
"Life is a storm, my young friend. You will bask in the sunlight one moment, be shattered on the rocks the next."Abbé Faria
"The mystery of life is not in living. It is living wrongly or rightly."Levin
"We cannot live only for ourselves."Levin
"Whether I shall turn out to be the hero of my own life depends on these pages"Pip
"To live truly is to live with purpose"Levin
"To be alive is to suffer"Karenin
"Every man is the son of his own works."Don Quixote
"All happy families are alike; each unhappy family is unhappy in its own way."Leo Tolstoy (Narrator)
"Life is a series of tests we must endure."Abbé Faria
"All happy families are alike; each unhappy family is unhappy in its own way"Leo Tolstoy (Narrator)
"One can't live on love alone"Dolly Oblonskaya
"It matters not how a man dies, but how he lives"Magwitch
"Until death it is all life."Don Quixote
"I have understood that life does not consist in the pleasures we receive, but in the ends we achieve."Levin
"Nothing is so good as news in this barren country."Mrs. Bennet
"The supreme penalty of life is to live."Javert
"To die is nothing; but it is terrible not to live."Marius Pontmercy
"Life is a storm, my young friend. You will bask in the sunlight one moment, be shattered on the rocks the next."Abbé Faria
"Life is a storm, my young friend. You will bask in the sunshine one moment, be shattered on the rocks the next."Abbé Faria
"She could not admit she had nothing to live for."Leo Tolstoy (Narrator)
"What have I done? What is to be done with my life?"Levin
"All the variety, all the charm, all the beauty of life is made up of light and shade."Leo Tolstoy (Narrator)
"What is life but a series of adventures, some great and some small?"Don Quixote
"I want to live, for I am still alive, am I not?"Raskolnikov