Life Quotes

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

22520 quotes

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