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