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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"I'd rather be a live dog than a dead lion any day of the week."
Randle McMurphy
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"This place runs on routine, and routine is death."
Randle McMurphy
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"I love life more than I love the meaning of life"
Dmitri Karamazov
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"I want to love actual life, I am not in love with it"
Ivan Karamazov
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"I have a longing for life, and I go on living in spite of logic"
Dmitri Karamazov
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"Nothing is ever simple."
Doc Daneeka
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"We're all trying to stay sane in an insane place."
Chief Bromden
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"I'd rather be in trouble for living than peace for dying."
Randle McMurphy
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"I want to keep living."
Yossarian
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"I just want to live."
Yossarian
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"I have this disease late in life. It's tremendous enthusiasm. But it kills you, I think"
Kurt Vonnegut
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"How nice – to feel nothing, and still get full credit for being alive"
Billy Pilgrim
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"One must love life before one can appreciate it."
Pierre Bezukhov
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"It's a hard world to practice any kind of decent human values in."
Randle McMurphy
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"I have a longing for life, and I go on living in spite of logic"
Ivan Karamazov
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"A man's life is a terrible and astounding thing."
Prince Andrei Bolkonsky
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"To live is the rarest thing in the world. Most people exist, that is all."
Pierre Bezukhov
K
"The most important thing I have to tell you today is that I am still alive."
Kurt Vonnegut
E
"You know what the problem with getting old is?"
Eliot Rosewater
I
"For every one of us it is true that we came into the world without our consent and leave it against our will."
Ivan Karamazov
D
"I have a longing for life, and I go on living in spite of logic."
Dmitri Karamazov
D
"To be alive is to be a slave to something or someone."
Dmitri Karamazov
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"Life is everything"
Natasha Rostova
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"What we need is not to run away from death but toward life"
Pierre Bezukhov
P
"Life is a series of experiences, each one of which makes us bigger"
Pierre Bezukhov
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"Youth is wasted on those who cannot appreciate it"
Natasha Rostova
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"The most important thing I have ever learned is that life goes on."
Billy Pilgrim
B
"The most important thing I have learned is that life is made up of many small moments."
Billy Pilgrim
P
"Our life passes in the service of an external god, and we imagine that our own life is the real one."
Pierre Bezukhov
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"Life everywhere is the same"
Pierre Bezukhov