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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"I longed for death, but this girl, this girl loved life."
Death
D
"His heart was still beating, still fighting, still alive."
Death
D
"I watched her grow from a girl to a woman, and I could not look away."
Death
D
"The human child."
Death
J
"Bread is the staff of life."
Jean Valjean
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"Life is what happens when you're busy making other plans."
Nora Seed
P
"My purpose here is unclear to me."
Piranesi
C
"I am not afraid of death, but of a life unlived"
Circe
F
"It is nothing to die; it is dreadful not to live."
Fantine
A
"One cannot live only on memories."
Albus Dumbledore
A
"The consequences of our actions are always so complicated, so diverse."
Albus Dumbledore
A
"It is impossible to live without failing at something, unless you live so cautiously."
Albus Dumbledore
J
"Men are born for games. Nothing else. There is no higher purpose."
Judge Holden
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"I wish it need not have happened in my time, said Frodo. So do I, said Gandalf, and so do all who live to see such times."
Gandalf
G
"I wish the Ring had never come to me. I wish none of this had happened. So do I, and so do all who live to see such times."
Gandalf
F
"It is nothing to die; it is frightful not to live."
Fantine
T
"The gods are cruel to make us want what we cannot have"
Theon Greyjoy
A
"The consequences of our actions are always so complicated, so diverse, that predicting the future is a very difficult business indeed."
Albus Dumbledore
A
"Your mother is alive, Severus."
Albus Dumbledore
A
"Even Muggles notice when they lose a child at birth."
Albus Dumbledore
A
"It does not do to dwell on dreams and forget to live."
Albus Dumbledore
K
"It's like everyone tells a story about themselves inside their own head. Always. All the time. That story makes you who you are."
Kvothe
F
"It is nothing to die; it is frightful not to live."
Fantine
K
"It's like everyone tells a story about themselves inside their own head. Always. All the time. That story makes you who you are"
Kvothe
K
"I have stayed in the rooms of the rich and slept in the alleys of the poor"
Kvothe
K
"We are all stories in the end. Make yours a good one"
Kvothe
D
"Life is a series of choices, each one shaping who we become."
Dalinar Kholin
A
"It does not do to dwell on dreams and forget to live."
Albus Dumbledore
T
"We are all prisoners of our choices."
Tyrion Lannister
A
"I want to live"
Arya Stark