Life Quotes

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

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"Life, after all, is not a thing of importance so long as it is not useless."
Pierre Bezukhov
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"The most difficult thing, but an essential one, is to love life in all its manifestations."
Pierre Bezukhov
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"You don't like anything that's happening."
Sally Hayes
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"I'm in the same boat I've always been in."
Holden Caulfield
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"It's funny. It's very funny. But when you're in it, it's not so funny."
Holden Caulfield
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"I don't even know what I was running for—I guess I just felt like it."
Holden Caulfield
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"I'm eighteen now, for Chrissake."
Holden Caulfield
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"This is getting to be quite a drag, if you want to know the truth."
Holden Caulfield
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"I have become a bum."
Billy Pilgrim
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"How nice – to feel nothing, and still get full credit for being alive."
Billy Pilgrim
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"It is nothing to die; it is frightful not to live."
Fantine
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"Life is not a thing of having been lived over again."
Jean Valjean
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"Some people are born to lift heavy loads and some are born to light lamps."
Samuel Hamilton
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"To die is nothing; but it is terrible not to live."
Marius Pontmercy
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"How nice—to feel nothing, and still get full credit for being alive."
Billy Pilgrim
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"Billy Pilgrim said, I would not trade my life for anything."
Billy Pilgrim
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"How nice—to feel nothing, and still get full credit for being alive."
Billy Pilgrim
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"We are dying before we begin to live."
Samuel Hamilton
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"The only thing worth dying for is music or a woman or a new winter suit."
Yossarian
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"You can't do anything if you're dead."
Yossarian
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"Life flows on, and we must flow with it"
Marya Bolkonskaya
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"He wanted to live."
Yossarian
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"How nice—to feel nothing, and still get full credit for living."
Billy Pilgrim
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"Life has no meaning if it does not serve a higher purpose"
Prince Andrei Bolkonsky
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"Anything worth dying for is certainly worth living for."
Chaplain Tappman
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"I want to live forever or die in the attempt."
Yossarian
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"Our life is miserable, laborious, and short."
Old Major
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"Poverty is the night of the soul."
Fantine
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"How nice—to feel nothing, and still get full credit for being alive."
Billy Pilgrim
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"I want to keep on living forever."
Yossarian