Life Quotes

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

22520 quotes

B
"I'd never given much thought to how I would die"
Bella Swan
E
"My heart hasn't beat in 109 years"
Edward Cullen
N
"Pain is proof we're alive"
Newt
P
"I was a troubled kid. That's what my teachers called me."
Percy Jackson
P
"I didn't ask for this life."
Percy Jackson
R
"Being a vampire is not all bad"
Rosalie Hale
E
"I exist, but I do not live"
Edward Cullen
C
"The world is not kind to little girls."
Cersei Lannister
N
"We're alive. That's what matters"
Newt
E
"Nothing's ever easy for you, is it?"
Edward Cullen
T
"Life is too short to spend it wishing you were somewhere else."
The Grandfather (narrator)
B
"It doesn't matter how the sun shines in the stories, if it rains down on us none the less"
Bella Swan
N
"Survival isn't living. Real living is doing something worthwhile"
Newt
A
"Life is what you make of it."
Alby
P
"Being a demigod isn't a gift—it's a burden."
Percy Jackson
P
"We all have our monsters to fight."
Percy Jackson
T
"Survival isn't living"
Thomas
T
"I have never felt so alive as I do now."
Tris Prior
E
"This is what you want to be"
Edward Cullen
M
"Running is living. Standing still is dying."
Minho
D
"I would rather be a living beggar than a dead king."
Davos Seaworth
S
"The mystery of life isn't a problem to solve but a reality to experience."
Spice-induced narrator/Paul's visions
E
"I never knew what it meant to live until I met you"
Edward Cullen
T
"I am alive, and I am brave."
Tris Prior
E
"When you can live forever, what do you live for?"
Edward Cullen
E
"I don't sleep anymore."
Edward Cullen
A
"That is no true life"
Arya Stark
T
"I want to be more than just survive. I want to live."
Tris Prior
M
"We're all going to die, but that doesn't mean we have to stop living."
Minho
N
"Life is what we make it in the spaces between tragedy."
Newt