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