Life Quotes

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

22520 quotes

B
"Being normal is everything that you want to be."
Billy Bibbit
R
"I want to live before I die."
Randle McMurphy
C
"Life goes on, whether you're ready or not."
Chief Bromden
Y
"He wanted to live. He did not want to die."
Yossarian
H
"I'm depressed as hell."
Holden Caulfield
H
"I'm crazy. I really am."
Holden Caulfield
H
"It depresses me. It really does."
Holden Caulfield
H
"I was in a very bad mood. I really was."
Holden Caulfield
H
"That depressed me as hell."
Holden Caulfield
M
"It is nothing to die; it is frightful not to live."
Marius Pontmercy
H
"I have no wind. I don't smoke."
Holden Caulfield
H
"I really did."
Holden Caulfield
Y
"I want to keep on living forever just like I'm doing now."
Yossarian
Y
"I want to live forever, or die trying."
Yossarian
B
"How nice—to feel nothing, and still get full credit for being alive."
Billy Pilgrim
H
"The thing is, it's very hard to live in America."
Holden Caulfield
F
"I had learned that the heart was a separate organ."
Fantine
P
"Life flows within us as well as without us."
Pierre Bezukhov
N
"Life is what happens when you're busy making other plans."
Natasha Rostova
H
"If you really want to hear about it, the first thing you'll probably want to know is where I'm from and what my lousy childhood was like."
Holden Caulfield
N
"Life is everything"
Natasha Rostova
N
"To be alive is to feel"
Natasha Rostova
B
"How nice—to feel nothing, and still get full credit for being alive."
Billy Pilgrim
K
"We are here on Earth to fart around."
Kurt Vonnegut
B
"How nice—to feel nothing, and still get full credit for being alive."
Billy Pilgrim
B
"We are here on Earth to fart around, and don't let anybody tell you different."
Billy Pilgrim
H
"I'm not going to tell you my whole goddam autobiography."
Holden Caulfield
P
"I am alive and I know it. But you just live"
Prince Andrei Bolkonsky
B
"How nice—to feel nothing, and still get full credit for being alive."
Billy Pilgrim
Y
"The only thing worth dying for is life itself."
Yossarian