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."
Nick Carraway
N
"So I became one of the crude vineyards."
Nick Carraway
J
"What's the point of it all?"
Jordan Baker
N
"I wanted no more riotous excursions with privileged glimpses into the human heart."
Nick Carraway
Y
"I know that I haven't lived yet."
Yossarian
Y
"I want to live."
Yossarian
F
"It is nothing to die; it is frightful not to live."
Fantine
A
"I think the highest and boldest thing is to love life in all its aspects."
Alexei (Alyosha) Karamazov
P
"I have learned that we must love life more than the meaning of life."
Pierre Bezukhov
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"There are only the pursued, the pursuing, the busy and the tired."
Nick Carraway
P
"Life is neither good nor bad, it simply is what we make of it"
Pierre Bezukhov
P
"A man must live, not merely exist"
Pierre Bezukhov
N
"There are only the pursued, the pursuing, the busy, and the tired."
Nick Carraway
P
"I simply want to live; to cause no evil to anyone but myself."
Pierre Bezukhov
F
"Did you know that life is the only thing worth living for?"
Fantine
R
"I came here to live."
Randle McMurphy
D
"We are all passing through life as through a dream, but some dreams are more vivid than others"
Dmitri Karamazov
P
"The immensity of life overwhelms us."
Pierre Bezukhov
R
"I came in here to live, not just exist."
Randle McMurphy
Y
"He wanted to live."
Yossarian
Y
"He wanted to live."
Yossarian
Y
"I want to keep living."
Yossarian
A
"We must learn to love life despite its sorrows."
Alexei (Alyosha) Karamazov
P
"I love life despite all the sufferings."
Prince Andrei Bolkonsky
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"Life has to be lived—that is all there is to it."
Natasha Rostova
J
"It is nothing to die; it is frightful not to live."
Jean Valjean
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"The best things in life are worth dying for."
Yossarian
Y
"Some people are much more alive than others."
Yossarian
J
"I hope it pleases you that I intend to join the common run of men and women."
Jem Finch
P
"In life there is nothing more precious than living through"
Pierre Bezukhov