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Life is a journey filled with moments of joy, struggle, growth, and reflection. The quotes that follow capture different perspectives on what it means to live, love, and learn. Together, they offer insight, inspiration, and reminders that life’s lessons often come from our shared experiences.   ◀ Back
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He decided in favor of life out of sheer spite and malice.
- Patrick Süskind
Perfume: The Story of a Murderer
Topic: Life
NOT YET RATED ▼
We all like to think the world ends when we do. The truth is our acquaintances, our friends, and our loved ones all live on, and through them, so do we. It's not about what you had, but what you gave. It's not about how you looked, but how you lived. And it's not just about being remembered. It's about giving people a good reason to remember you.
- Tonya Hurley
Ghostgirl
Topic: Life
NOT YET RATED ▼
It is a fine thing to establish one's own religion in one's heart, not to be dependent on tradition and second-hand ideals. Life will seem to you, later, not a lesser, but a greater thing.
- D.H. Lawrence
Topic: Life, Religion
NOT YET RATED ▼
The salvation of man is through love and in love
- Viktor E. Frankl
Man's Search for Meaning
Topic: Life
NOT YET RATED ▼
Death ends a life, not a relationship.
- Mitch Albom
Tuesdays with Morrie: An Old Man, a Young Man, and Life's Greatest Lesson
Topic: Death, Life
NOT YET RATED ▼
Your time is limited, so don't waste it living someone else's life. Don't be trapped by dogma - which is living with the results of other people's thinking. Don't let the noise of other's opinions drown out your own inner voice. And most important, have the courage to follow your heart and intuition. They somehow already know what you truly want to become. Everything else is secondary.
Topic: Death, Life
NOT YET RATED ▼
I want words at my funeral. But I guess that means you need life in your life.
- Markus Zusak
The Book Thief
Topic: Death, Life
NOT YET RATED ▼
Life is the tragedy,' she said bitterly. 'You know how they categorize Shakespeare's plays, right? If it ends with a wedding, it's a comedy. And if it ends with a funeral, it's a tragedy. So we're all living tragedies, because we all end the same way, and it isn't with a goddamn wedding.
- Robyn Schneider
The Beginning of Everything
Topic: Death, Life
NOT YET RATED ▼
In the midst of life, we are in death.
- Agatha Christie
And Then There Were None
Topic: Death, Life
NOT YET RATED ▼
And, just as it only takes a moment to die, it only takes a moment to live. You just close your eyes and let every futile fear slip away. And then, in this new state, free from fear, you ask yourself: who am I? If I could live without doubt what would I do? If I could be kind without the fear of being fucked over? If I could love without fear of being hurt? If I could taste the sweetness of today without thinking of how I will miss that taste tomorrow? If I could not fear the passing of time and the people it will steal? Yes. What would I do? Who would I care for? What battle would I fight? Which paths would I step down? What joys would I allow myself? What internal mysteries would I solve? How, in short, would I live?
- Matt Haig
How to Stop Time
Topic: Death, Life
NOT YET RATED ▼
some men never
die
and some men never
live

but we're all alive
tonight.
- Charles Bukowski
You Get So Alone at Times That it Just Makes Sense
Topic: Death, Life
NOT YET RATED ▼
It's been a prevalent notion. Fallen sparks. Fragments of vessels broken at the Creation. And someday, somehow, before the end, a gathering back to home. A messenger from the Kingdom, arriving at the last moment. But I tell you there is no such message, no such home -- only the millions of last moments . . . nothing more. Our history is an aggregate of last moments.
- Thomas Pynchon
Gravity's Rainbow
Topic: Death, Life
NOT YET RATED ▼
Leonard asks me if there's anything I need to know before he dies, I think about it for a minute, turn to him, say what's the meaning of life, Leonard? He laughs, says that's an easy one, my son, it's whatever you want it to be.
- James Frey
My Friend Leonard
Topic: Death, Life
NOT YET RATED ▼
Nevertheless, life and death are mysterious states, and we know little of the resources of either.
- Joseph Sheridan Le Fanu
Carmilla
Topic: Death, Life
NOT YET RATED ▼
He killed himself for wanting to live.
- Markus Zusak
The Book Thief
Topic: Death, Life
NOT YET RATED ▼
your life will not end with death. You are Immortal. You were always there and you always will be.
- Zain Hashmi
A Blessed Olive Tree: A Spiritual Journey in Twenty Short Stories
Topic: Death, Life
NOT YET RATED ▼
Remembering that you are going to die is the best way I know to avoid the trap of thinking you have something to lose.
Topic: Death, Hope, Inspirational, Life
NOT YET RATED ▼
From the onset of polio in 1921 until his death, Franklin, his family, his inner circle of advisers, and teams of physicians assiduously disguised the state of his health, promoting the fantasy of a robust leader who was always in excel- lent physical condition for a man his age. Severe heart disease was not admit- ted until twenty-five years after his death, and then only as part of a new and larger cover-up to conceal other severe medical problems. These deceptions still dominate the present-day narrative of Franklin’s health, especially so in his later years.
- Steven Lomazow
FDR Unmasked: 73 Years of Medical Cover-ups That Rewrote History
Topic: Death, Life
NOT YET RATED ▼
This world
that was our home
for a brief spell
never brought us anything
but pain and grief;
its a shame that not one of our problems
was ever solved.
We depart
with a thousand regrets
in our hearts.
- Omar Khayyám
Topic: Death, Life
NOT YET RATED ▼
Because I trust in the ever-changing climate of the heart. (At least, today I feel that way.) I think it is necessary to have many experiences for the sake of feeling something; for the sake of being challenged, and for the sake of being expressive, to offer something to someone else, to learn what we are capable of.
- Jason Mraz
Topic: Education, Funny, Inspirational, Life
NOT YET RATED ▼
Let your life lightly dance on the edges of Time like dew on the tip of a leaf.
Topic: Inspirational, Life
NOT YET RATED ▼
There are only two ways to live your life. One is as though nothing is a miracle. The other is as though everything is a miracle.
Topic: Inspirational, Life
NOT YET RATED ▼
Pursue what catches your heart, not what catches your eyes.
- Roy T. Bennett
The Light in the Heart
Topic: Inspirational, Life, Motivational
NOT YET RATED ▼
Sometimes our light goes out, but is blown again into instant flame by an encounter with another human being.
- Albert Schweitzer
Topic: Inspirational, Life
NOT YET RATED ▼
He decided in favor of life out of sheer spite and malice.
- Patrick Süskind
Perfume: The Story of a Murderer
Topic: Life
NOT YET RATED ▼
We all like to think the world ends when we do. The truth is our acquaintances, our friends, and our loved ones all live on, and through them, so do we. It's not about what you had, but what you gave. It's not about how you looked, but how you lived. And it's not just about being remembered. It's about giving people a good reason to remember you.
- Tonya Hurley
Ghostgirl
Topic: Life
NOT YET RATED ▼
It is a fine thing to establish one's own religion in one's heart, not to be dependent on tradition and second-hand ideals. Life will seem to you, later, not a lesser, but a greater thing.
- D.H. Lawrence
Topic: Life, Religion
NOT YET RATED ▼
The salvation of man is through love and in love
- Viktor E. Frankl
Man's Search for Meaning
Topic: Life
NOT YET RATED ▼
Death ends a life, not a relationship.
- Mitch Albom
Tuesdays with Morrie: An Old Man, a Young Man, and Life's Greatest Lesson
Topic: Death, Life
NOT YET RATED ▼
Your time is limited, so don't waste it living someone else's life. Don't be trapped by dogma - which is living with the results of other people's thinking. Don't let the noise of other's opinions drown out your own inner voice. And most important, have the courage to follow your heart and intuition. They somehow already know what you truly want to become. Everything else is secondary.
Topic: Death, Life
NOT YET RATED ▼
I want words at my funeral. But I guess that means you need life in your life.
- Markus Zusak
The Book Thief
Topic: Death, Life
NOT YET RATED ▼
Life is the tragedy,' she said bitterly. 'You know how they categorize Shakespeare's plays, right? If it ends with a wedding, it's a comedy. And if it ends with a funeral, it's a tragedy. So we're all living tragedies, because we all end the same way, and it isn't with a goddamn wedding.
- Robyn Schneider
The Beginning of Everything
Topic: Death, Life
NOT YET RATED ▼
In the midst of life, we are in death.
- Agatha Christie
And Then There Were None
Topic: Death, Life
NOT YET RATED ▼
And, just as it only takes a moment to die, it only takes a moment to live. You just close your eyes and let every futile fear slip away. And then, in this new state, free from fear, you ask yourself: who am I? If I could live without doubt what would I do? If I could be kind without the fear of being fucked over? If I could love without fear of being hurt? If I could taste the sweetness of today without thinking of how I will miss that taste tomorrow? If I could not fear the passing of time and the people it will steal? Yes. What would I do? Who would I care for? What battle would I fight? Which paths would I step down? What joys would I allow myself? What internal mysteries would I solve? How, in short, would I live?
- Matt Haig
How to Stop Time
Topic: Death, Life
NOT YET RATED ▼
some men never
die
and some men never
live

but we're all alive
tonight.
- Charles Bukowski
You Get So Alone at Times That it Just Makes Sense
Topic: Death, Life
NOT YET RATED ▼
It's been a prevalent notion. Fallen sparks. Fragments of vessels broken at the Creation. And someday, somehow, before the end, a gathering back to home. A messenger from the Kingdom, arriving at the last moment. But I tell you there is no such message, no such home -- only the millions of last moments . . . nothing more. Our history is an aggregate of last moments.
- Thomas Pynchon
Gravity's Rainbow
Topic: Death, Life
NOT YET RATED ▼
Leonard asks me if there's anything I need to know before he dies, I think about it for a minute, turn to him, say what's the meaning of life, Leonard? He laughs, says that's an easy one, my son, it's whatever you want it to be.
- James Frey
My Friend Leonard
Topic: Death, Life
NOT YET RATED ▼
Nevertheless, life and death are mysterious states, and we know little of the resources of either.
- Joseph Sheridan Le Fanu
Carmilla
Topic: Death, Life
NOT YET RATED ▼
He killed himself for wanting to live.
- Markus Zusak
The Book Thief
Topic: Death, Life
NOT YET RATED ▼
your life will not end with death. You are Immortal. You were always there and you always will be.
- Zain Hashmi
A Blessed Olive Tree: A Spiritual Journey in Twenty Short Stories
Topic: Death, Life
NOT YET RATED ▼
Remembering that you are going to die is the best way I know to avoid the trap of thinking you have something to lose.
Topic: Death, Hope, Inspirational, Life
NOT YET RATED ▼
From the onset of polio in 1921 until his death, Franklin, his family, his inner circle of advisers, and teams of physicians assiduously disguised the state of his health, promoting the fantasy of a robust leader who was always in excel- lent physical condition for a man his age. Severe heart disease was not admit- ted until twenty-five years after his death, and then only as part of a new and larger cover-up to conceal other severe medical problems. These deceptions still dominate the present-day narrative of Franklin’s health, especially so in his later years.
- Steven Lomazow
FDR Unmasked: 73 Years of Medical Cover-ups That Rewrote History
Topic: Death, Life
NOT YET RATED ▼
This world
that was our home
for a brief spell
never brought us anything
but pain and grief;
its a shame that not one of our problems
was ever solved.
We depart
with a thousand regrets
in our hearts.
- Omar Khayyám
Topic: Death, Life
NOT YET RATED ▼
Because I trust in the ever-changing climate of the heart. (At least, today I feel that way.) I think it is necessary to have many experiences for the sake of feeling something; for the sake of being challenged, and for the sake of being expressive, to offer something to someone else, to learn what we are capable of.
- Jason Mraz
Topic: Education, Funny, Inspirational, Life
NOT YET RATED ▼
Let your life lightly dance on the edges of Time like dew on the tip of a leaf.
Topic: Inspirational, Life
NOT YET RATED ▼
There are only two ways to live your life. One is as though nothing is a miracle. The other is as though everything is a miracle.
Topic: Inspirational, Life
NOT YET RATED ▼
Pursue what catches your heart, not what catches your eyes.
- Roy T. Bennett
The Light in the Heart
Topic: Inspirational, Life, Motivational
NOT YET RATED ▼
Sometimes our light goes out, but is blown again into instant flame by an encounter with another human being.
- Albert Schweitzer
Topic: Inspirational, Life
NOT YET RATED ▼
He decided in favor of life out of sheer spite and malice.
- Patrick Süskind
Perfume: The Story of a Murderer
Topic: Life
NOT YET RATED ▼
We all like to think the world ends when we do. The truth is our acquaintances, our friends, and our loved ones all live on, and through them, so do we. It's not about what you had, but what you gave. It's not about how you looked, but how you lived. And it's not just about being remembered. It's about giving people a good reason to remember you.
- Tonya Hurley
Ghostgirl
Topic: Life
NOT YET RATED ▼
It is a fine thing to establish one's own religion in one's heart, not to be dependent on tradition and second-hand ideals. Life will seem to you, later, not a lesser, but a greater thing.
- D.H. Lawrence
Topic: Life, Religion
NOT YET RATED ▼
The salvation of man is through love and in love
- Viktor E. Frankl
Man's Search for Meaning
Topic: Life
NOT YET RATED ▼
Death ends a life, not a relationship.
- Mitch Albom
Tuesdays with Morrie: An Old Man, a Young Man, and Life's Greatest Lesson
Topic: Death, Life
NOT YET RATED ▼
Your time is limited, so don't waste it living someone else's life. Don't be trapped by dogma - which is living with the results of other people's thinking. Don't let the noise of other's opinions drown out your own inner voice. And most important, have the courage to follow your heart and intuition. They somehow already know what you truly want to become. Everything else is secondary.
Topic: Death, Life
NOT YET RATED ▼
I want words at my funeral. But I guess that means you need life in your life.
- Markus Zusak
The Book Thief
Topic: Death, Life
NOT YET RATED ▼
Life is the tragedy,' she said bitterly. 'You know how they categorize Shakespeare's plays, right? If it ends with a wedding, it's a comedy. And if it ends with a funeral, it's a tragedy. So we're all living tragedies, because we all end the same way, and it isn't with a goddamn wedding.
- Robyn Schneider
The Beginning of Everything
Topic: Death, Life
NOT YET RATED ▼
In the midst of life, we are in death.
- Agatha Christie
And Then There Were None
Topic: Death, Life
NOT YET RATED ▼
And, just as it only takes a moment to die, it only takes a moment to live. You just close your eyes and let every futile fear slip away. And then, in this new state, free from fear, you ask yourself: who am I? If I could live without doubt what would I do? If I could be kind without the fear of being fucked over? If I could love without fear of being hurt? If I could taste the sweetness of today without thinking of how I will miss that taste tomorrow? If I could not fear the passing of time and the people it will steal? Yes. What would I do? Who would I care for? What battle would I fight? Which paths would I step down? What joys would I allow myself? What internal mysteries would I solve? How, in short, would I live?
- Matt Haig
How to Stop Time
Topic: Death, Life
NOT YET RATED ▼
some men never
die
and some men never
live

but we're all alive
tonight.
- Charles Bukowski
You Get So Alone at Times That it Just Makes Sense
Topic: Death, Life
NOT YET RATED ▼
It's been a prevalent notion. Fallen sparks. Fragments of vessels broken at the Creation. And someday, somehow, before the end, a gathering back to home. A messenger from the Kingdom, arriving at the last moment. But I tell you there is no such message, no such home -- only the millions of last moments . . . nothing more. Our history is an aggregate of last moments.
- Thomas Pynchon
Gravity's Rainbow
Topic: Death, Life
NOT YET RATED ▼
Leonard asks me if there's anything I need to know before he dies, I think about it for a minute, turn to him, say what's the meaning of life, Leonard? He laughs, says that's an easy one, my son, it's whatever you want it to be.
- James Frey
My Friend Leonard
Topic: Death, Life
NOT YET RATED ▼
Nevertheless, life and death are mysterious states, and we know little of the resources of either.
- Joseph Sheridan Le Fanu
Carmilla
Topic: Death, Life
NOT YET RATED ▼
He killed himself for wanting to live.
- Markus Zusak
The Book Thief
Topic: Death, Life
NOT YET RATED ▼
your life will not end with death. You are Immortal. You were always there and you always will be.
- Zain Hashmi
A Blessed Olive Tree: A Spiritual Journey in Twenty Short Stories
Topic: Death, Life
NOT YET RATED ▼
Remembering that you are going to die is the best way I know to avoid the trap of thinking you have something to lose.
Topic: Death, Hope, Inspirational, Life
NOT YET RATED ▼
From the onset of polio in 1921 until his death, Franklin, his family, his inner circle of advisers, and teams of physicians assiduously disguised the state of his health, promoting the fantasy of a robust leader who was always in excel- lent physical condition for a man his age. Severe heart disease was not admit- ted until twenty-five years after his death, and then only as part of a new and larger cover-up to conceal other severe medical problems. These deceptions still dominate the present-day narrative of Franklin’s health, especially so in his later years.
- Steven Lomazow
FDR Unmasked: 73 Years of Medical Cover-ups That Rewrote History
Topic: Death, Life
NOT YET RATED ▼
This world
that was our home
for a brief spell
never brought us anything
but pain and grief;
its a shame that not one of our problems
was ever solved.
We depart
with a thousand regrets
in our hearts.
- Omar Khayyám
Topic: Death, Life
NOT YET RATED ▼
Because I trust in the ever-changing climate of the heart. (At least, today I feel that way.) I think it is necessary to have many experiences for the sake of feeling something; for the sake of being challenged, and for the sake of being expressive, to offer something to someone else, to learn what we are capable of.
- Jason Mraz
Topic: Education, Funny, Inspirational, Life
NOT YET RATED ▼
Let your life lightly dance on the edges of Time like dew on the tip of a leaf.
Topic: Inspirational, Life
NOT YET RATED ▼
There are only two ways to live your life. One is as though nothing is a miracle. The other is as though everything is a miracle.
Topic: Inspirational, Life
NOT YET RATED ▼
Pursue what catches your heart, not what catches your eyes.
- Roy T. Bennett
The Light in the Heart
Topic: Inspirational, Life, Motivational
NOT YET RATED ▼
Sometimes our light goes out, but is blown again into instant flame by an encounter with another human being.
- Albert Schweitzer
Topic: Inspirational, Life
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