Life Quotes
The big one. What it means, how to live it, and why it's worth the effort.
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"Men are made of the dust of the world, do you understand? There is nothing else. They inhale the world, and it becomes them."Judge Holden
"I wished I was dead sometimes, but living was better."Huckleberry Finn
"You are not a ghost. You are flesh and blood and you will always be flesh and blood"Remedios the Beauty
"He had always said that no one deserved a long life."Florentino Ariza
"The world is sad because you're alive."Remedios the Beauty
"The body was a machine of joy and pleasure, not sin."Robbie Turner
"A woman's life in this country is just a like a leave in autumn—and then it falls, and no one remembers it."Mariam
"There is no such thing as life without bloodshed."Judge Holden
"A small fact: You didn't ask for the real world to work this way. It is the world that asks you."Death
"When she arrived in Sydney, she was finally able to see the whole book."Death
"I want to live a thousand years."Liesel Meminger
"Open your eyes and see what you can with them before they close forever."Marie-Laure
"The world is both beautiful and terrible."Marie-Laure
"Youth is wasted on those who don't understand its value."Werner
"Survival sometimes requires compromise."Vianne Mauriac
"Youth is both a blessing and a burden."Isabelle Mauriac
"Some people are born to sit by a window."Pilar Ternera
"We are all searching for something that was lost long ago."José Arcadio Buendía
"To die is nothing; but it is terrible not to live."Marius Pontmercy
"We are all just trying to get home"Werner
"We are all refugees from something"Madame Manec
"I am learning that the penalty for not being is often high"Circe
"She would discover that trying to maintain a house became harder the older she got."Gabriel García Márquez (Narrator)
"A single life is supposed to be so valuable."Werner
"Whatever moves must kill to live"Judge Holden
"A routine is not a rut if you choose it yourself."Ove
"I want to live."Patroclus
"Life itself is the most wonderful fairy tale."Aureliano Buendía
"In the end, we are nothing but the sum of our regrets."Aureliano Buendía
"The living are too occupied with their own lives to worry about the dead."Gabriel García Márquez (Narrator)