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 only the pursued, the pursuing, the busy and the tired."Jordan Baker
"You always look so cool."Daisy Buchanan
"What'll we do with ourselves this afternoon?"Daisy Buchanan
"To live is to suffer"Raskolnikov
"So we beat on, boats against the current, borne back ceaselessly into the past."Nick Carraway
"There are only the pursued, the pursuing, the busy, and the tired."Daisy Buchanan
"One is not wretched because one has never been happy."Fantine
"There is in the human heart a constant need for heroism and self-sacrifice."Gustave Flaubert (Narrator)
"She felt small and miserable in the midst of her existence."Gustave Flaubert (Narrator)
"Life was not meant to be a simple domestic arrangement."Emma Bovary
"Mediocrity was her constant torment."Gustave Flaubert (Narrator)
"She could not bear the weight of ordinary life."Gustave Flaubert (Narrator)
"She lived for ecstasy and died for it."Gustave Flaubert (Narrator)
"Life everywhere is the same."Natasha Rostova
"A man who has suffered has truly lived."Pierre Bezukhov
"There's a lot of ugly things in this world, son. I wish I could keep 'em all away from you."Atticus Finch
"Life is a storm, my young friend. You will bask in the sunlight one moment, be shattered on the rocks the next"Abbé Faria
"In this world there are only two kinds of existence: to live or to die"Edmond Dantès
"She was lost in the labyrinth of her own desires"Gustave Flaubert (Narrator)
"Boredom, that gray poison, had settled into her heart"Gustave Flaubert (Narrator)
"Her restlessness was a sickness without a cure"Gustave Flaubert (Narrator)
"She was a woman caught between two worlds, belonging to neither"Gustave Flaubert (Narrator)
"A man is not truly born until he has experienced death."Monte Cristo
"There's a lot of ugly things in this world, son."Atticus Finch
"I have a longing for life, and I go on living in spite of logic"Ivan Karamazov
"Life is a storm, my young friend. You will bask in the sunlight one moment, be shattered on the rocks the next."Abbé Faria
"I want to love life even in its unreasonableness"Ivan Karamazov
"To truly live is to accept both joy and suffering as necessary parts of existence"Dmitri Karamazov
"I was within and without, simultaneously enchanted and repelled by the inexhaustible variety of life."Nick Carraway
"I hope she'll be a fool—that's the best thing a girl can be in this world."Daisy Buchanan