Life Quotes

"To live is to suffer, but to have never lived is worse."

"I have a longing for life, and I go on living in the old way."

"I want to love life even in my despair"

"There's a lot of ugly things in this world, son. I wish I could keep 'em all away from you. That's never possible."

"The way I am now, Atticus says is the way I'm always going to be."

"I'm afraid our activities this summer had been cut down according to a rigid schedule."

"She was not happy, and never had been happy"

"She felt herself drowning in the banality of existence"

"She mistook novelty for meaning"

"Regret is the only teacher that arrives too late"

"I hope she'll be a fool—that's the best thing a girl can be in this world, a beautiful little fool."

"There are only the pursued, the pursuing, the busy, and the tired."

"I was within and without, simultaneously enchanted and repelled by the inexhaustible variety of life."

"Life is a series of moments, and we must learn to appreciate each one."

"I have a longing for life and I go on living in spite of logic."

"The monotony of her life was breaking her spirit"

"Reality was far more tedious than the novels she read"

"The provincial life crushed everything beautiful in her"

"Routine was her slow poison"

"The world outside her desires seemed small and contemptible"

"She had wanted to be extraordinary but was condemned to be ordinary"

"I seek not happiness, but meaning."

"I hope she'll be a fool—that's the best thing a girl can be in this world, a beautiful little fool."

"There are only the pursued, the pursuing, the busy and the tired."

"The force of life lies in being fully alive."

"Life is a storm, my young friend. You will bask in the sunlight one moment, be shattered on the rocks the next."

"She was not happy, and never had been happy."

"Why had she married? Why not?"

"She was lost in the labyrinth of her own desires."

"The world is full of people dying of boredom."