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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"Life, although it may only be an accumulation of anguish, is dear to me, and I will defend it."
The Creature
V
"How mutable are our feelings, and how strange is that clinging love we have of life!"
Victor Frankenstein
V
"Life, although it may only be an accumulation of anguish, is dear to me"
Victor Frankenstein
Y
"He had decided to live forever or die in the attempt."
Yossarian
Y
"The only thing worth dying for is music, or a woman, or the ABC television network."
Yossarian
T
"Life, although it may only be an accumulation of anguish, is dear to me, and I will defend it."
The Creature
M
"We live as we dream—alone"
Marlow
Y
"He wanted to live forever or not at all."
Yossarian
M
"Droll thing life is—that mysterious arrangement of merciless logic"
Marlow
B
"How nice—to feel nothing, and still get full credit for being alive."
Billy Pilgrim
Y
"I just want to live. Is that too much to ask?"
Yossarian
M
"He lived then before me; he lived as much as he had ever lived."
Marlow
Y
"He had decided to live forever, or die in the attempt."
Yossarian
V
"Life, although it may only be an accumulation of anguish, is dear to me, and I will defend it."
Victor Frankenstein
V
"How mutable are our feelings, and how strange is that clinging love we have of life even in the excess of misery!"
Victor Frankenstein
B
"How nice—to feel nothing, and still get full credit for living."
Billy Pilgrim
B
"The important thing is that you are alive now."
Billy Pilgrim
M
"A man that is born falls into a dream like a man who falls into the sea"
Marlow
V
"Life, although it may only be an accumulation of anguish, is dear to me."
Victor Frankenstein
D
"Orr would be crazy to fly more missions and sane if he didn't, but if he was sane he had to fly them."
Doc Daneeka
B
"How nice—to feel nothing, and still get full credit for living."
Billy Pilgrim
T
"The race has a brief time for love and adventure before they age and die."
Tralfamadorian
B
"How nice—to feel nothing, and still get full credit for being alive."
Billy Pilgrim
Y
"I want to live. I don't care about anything else."
Yossarian
D
"You have a morbid aversion to dying. You don't have to die if you don't want to."
Doc Daneeka
J
"Life is a hard game sometimes."
Jo March
V
"That man's life is a rope unless he keeps a tight hold of it."
Van Helsing
J
"We carry the weight of our choices forever."
Jonathan Harker
H
"The widow Douglas she took me for her son, and allowed she would sivilize me."
Huckleberry Finn
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"I felt very low. I felt I was very low and that nothing could possibly be done about it."
Esther Greenwood