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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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I enjoy almost everything. Yet I have some restless searcher in me. Why is there not a discovery in life? Something one can lay hands on and say “This is it”? My depression is a harassed feeling. I’m looking: but that’s not it — that’s not it. What is it? And shall I die before I find it?
- Virginia Woolf
A Writer's Diary
Topic: Life
The greatest wealth is health
- Virgil
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Topic: Life
One day can change your life. One day can ruin your life. All life is is three or four big days that change everything.
- Beverly Donofrio
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Topic: Life
Life is merely a series of moments and is in fact an unflinching serial killer, since it kills steadily each moment one after the other. Memory is the only survivor. (“Just for a moment”)
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Life can be generous, but leaves us with a trilemma: How can we reconcile three diverse features: ‘I’, 'me' and the 'others'. Since the “I” entails what I want; the “me” what others expect of me and the “others” what others themselves want. The bridges between "individuality", “surroundings” and "otherness" can be abysmal and very often waiting to be restored. (“I am on my own side, but I can listen “ )
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Do not let yourself be bothered by the inconsequential. One has only so much time in this world, so devote it to the work and the people most important to you, to those you love and things that matter. One can waste half a lifetime with people one doesn't really like, or doing things when one would be better off somewhere else.
- Louis L'Amour
Ride the River
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Topic: Life, Philosophical
The young always have the same problem - how to rebel and conform at the same time. They have now solved this by defying their parents and copying one another.
- Quentin Crisp
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Topic: Life
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A mistake isn’t a mistake unless it can’t be put right.
- Sophie Kinsella
The Undomestic Goddess
Topic: Life
Comes the tipping point in life, when we decide to a ‘stop and search’ and our emotional police bring us to a standstill. This allows us to scan all the little details in the spectrum of our being; scour all fuzzy or cryptic elements that are floating around in our mind and restore the fault lines in the cluttered tale of our life. ("The world was somewhere else")
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Topic: Life
Life gives us a flair of awareness in the breeze of our daily journey and offers a free reign to explore what we are, to experience what we are not and to find out what we may become: a free ride until everything melts down into the indistinct and indefinite, while walking up to the ultimate gate of non-existence. ("Living on probation")
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Topic: Life
When people are just drifting along the tides of life and can’t see the shores of reality anymore, they may experience someday the irresistible desire for a liberating burst, emerging deeply from the inner self and disentangling them from their manufactured pattern. That day might be a day of all possibilities and make them ready to hit the ground running. ("A change of vision" )
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Topic: Life
In a well-ordered universe...
- Morgan Matson
Since You've Been Gone
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Topic: Life
Once again, life had a lesson to teach me: It takes years to build up, it takes moments to destroy.
- Haruki Murakami
Hard-Boiled Wonderland and the End of the World
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Topic: Life
Life should not be a journey to the grave with the intention of arriving safely in a pretty and well preserved body, but rather to skid in broadside in a cloud of smoke, thoroughly used up, totally worn out, and loudly proclaiming "Wow! What a Ride!
- Hunter S. Thompson
The Proud Highway: Saga of a Desperate Southern Gentleman, 1955-1967
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Topic: Death, Life
Life is for the living.
Death is for the dead.
Let life be like music.
And death a note unsaid.
- Langston Hughes
The Collected Poems
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Topic: Death, Life
I go to seek a Great Perhaps.
- François Rabelais
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Topic: Death, Life
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Every man's life ends the same way. It is only the details of how he lived and how he died that distinguish one man from another.
Topic: Death, Life
Life is tragic simply because the earth turns and the sun inexorably rises and sets, and one day, for each of us, the sun will go down for the last, last time. Perhaps the whole root of our trouble, the human trouble, is that we will sacrifice all the beauty of our lives, will imprison ourselves in totems, taboos, crosses, blood sacrifices, steeples, mosques, races, armies, flags, nations, in order to deny the fact of death, the only fact we have. It seems to me that one ought to rejoice in the fact of death--ought to decide, indeed, to earn one's death by confronting with passion the conundrum of life. One is responsible for life: It is the small beacon in that terrifying darkness from which we come and to which we shall return.
- James Baldwin
The Fire Next Time
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Topic: Death, Life, Religion
Pulvis et umbra sumus. (We are but dust and shadow.)
- Horace
The Odes of Horace
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Topic: Death, Life
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Six hundred and forty fish later, the only thing I know is everything you love will die. The first time you meet someone special, you can count on them one day being dead and in the ground.
- Chuck Palahniuk
Survivor
Topic: Death, Life, Relationships
There are three deaths. The first is when the body ceases to function. The second is when the body is consigned to the grave. The third is that moment, sometime in the future, when your name is spoken for the last time.
- David M. Eagleman
Sum: Forty Tales from the Afterlives
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Topic: Death, Life
I saw the world from the stars' point of view, and it looked unbearably lonely.
- Shaun David Hutchinson
We Are the Ants
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Topic: Death, Life
Every widow wakes one morning, perhaps after years of pure and unwavering grieving, to realize she slept a good night's sleep, and will be able to eat breakfast, and doesn't hear her husband's ghost all the time, but only some of the time. Her grief is replaced with a useful sadness. Every parent who loses a child finds a way to laugh again. The timbre begins to fade. The edge dulls. The hurt lessens. Every love is carved from loss. Mine was. Yours is. Your great-great-great-grandchildren's will be. But we learn to live in that love.
- Jonathan Safran Foer
Everything is Illuminated
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Topic: Death, Life
The fact that life has no meaning is a reason to live --moreover, the only one.
- E. M. Cioran
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Topic: Death, Life
XXX
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I enjoy almost everything. Yet I have some restless searcher in me. Why is there not a discovery in life? Something one can lay hands on and say “This is it”? My depression is a harassed feeling. I’m looking: but that’s not it — that’s not it. What is it? And shall I die before I find it?
- Virginia Woolf
A Writer's Diary
Topic: Life
The greatest wealth is health
- Virgil
NOT YET RATING
▼
Topic: Life
One day can change your life. One day can ruin your life. All life is is three or four big days that change everything.
- Beverly Donofrio
NOT YET RATING
▼
Topic: Life
Life is merely a series of moments and is in fact an unflinching serial killer, since it kills steadily each moment one after the other. Memory is the only survivor. (“Just for a moment”)
NOT YET RATING
▼
Topic: Life
Life can be generous, but leaves us with a trilemma: How can we reconcile three diverse features: ‘I’, 'me' and the 'others'. Since the “I” entails what I want; the “me” what others expect of me and the “others” what others themselves want. The bridges between "individuality", “surroundings” and "otherness" can be abysmal and very often waiting to be restored. (“I am on my own side, but I can listen “ )
NOT YET RATING
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Topic: Life
Do not let yourself be bothered by the inconsequential. One has only so much time in this world, so devote it to the work and the people most important to you, to those you love and things that matter. One can waste half a lifetime with people one doesn't really like, or doing things when one would be better off somewhere else.
- Louis L'Amour
Ride the River
NOT YET RATING
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Topic: Life, Philosophical
The young always have the same problem - how to rebel and conform at the same time. They have now solved this by defying their parents and copying one another.
- Quentin Crisp
NOT YET RATING
▼
Topic: Life
XXX
NOT YET RATING
▼
A mistake isn’t a mistake unless it can’t be put right.
- Sophie Kinsella
The Undomestic Goddess
Topic: Life
Comes the tipping point in life, when we decide to a ‘stop and search’ and our emotional police bring us to a standstill. This allows us to scan all the little details in the spectrum of our being; scour all fuzzy or cryptic elements that are floating around in our mind and restore the fault lines in the cluttered tale of our life. ("The world was somewhere else")
NOT YET RATING
▼
Topic: Life
Life gives us a flair of awareness in the breeze of our daily journey and offers a free reign to explore what we are, to experience what we are not and to find out what we may become: a free ride until everything melts down into the indistinct and indefinite, while walking up to the ultimate gate of non-existence. ("Living on probation")
NOT YET RATING
▼
Topic: Life
When people are just drifting along the tides of life and can’t see the shores of reality anymore, they may experience someday the irresistible desire for a liberating burst, emerging deeply from the inner self and disentangling them from their manufactured pattern. That day might be a day of all possibilities and make them ready to hit the ground running. ("A change of vision" )
NOT YET RATING
▼
Topic: Life
In a well-ordered universe...
- Morgan Matson
Since You've Been Gone
NOT YET RATING
▼
Topic: Life
Once again, life had a lesson to teach me: It takes years to build up, it takes moments to destroy.
- Haruki Murakami
Hard-Boiled Wonderland and the End of the World
NOT YET RATING
▼
Topic: Life
Life should not be a journey to the grave with the intention of arriving safely in a pretty and well preserved body, but rather to skid in broadside in a cloud of smoke, thoroughly used up, totally worn out, and loudly proclaiming "Wow! What a Ride!
- Hunter S. Thompson
The Proud Highway: Saga of a Desperate Southern Gentleman, 1955-1967
NOT YET RATING
▼
Topic: Death, Life
Life is for the living.
Death is for the dead.
Let life be like music.
And death a note unsaid.
- Langston Hughes
The Collected Poems
NOT YET RATING
▼
Topic: Death, Life
I go to seek a Great Perhaps.
- François Rabelais
NOT YET RATING
▼
Topic: Death, Life
XXX
NOT YET RATING
▼
Every man's life ends the same way. It is only the details of how he lived and how he died that distinguish one man from another.
Topic: Death, Life
Life is tragic simply because the earth turns and the sun inexorably rises and sets, and one day, for each of us, the sun will go down for the last, last time. Perhaps the whole root of our trouble, the human trouble, is that we will sacrifice all the beauty of our lives, will imprison ourselves in totems, taboos, crosses, blood sacrifices, steeples, mosques, races, armies, flags, nations, in order to deny the fact of death, the only fact we have. It seems to me that one ought to rejoice in the fact of death--ought to decide, indeed, to earn one's death by confronting with passion the conundrum of life. One is responsible for life: It is the small beacon in that terrifying darkness from which we come and to which we shall return.
- James Baldwin
The Fire Next Time
NOT YET RATING
▼
Topic: Death, Life, Religion
Pulvis et umbra sumus. (We are but dust and shadow.)
- Horace
The Odes of Horace
NOT YET RATING
▼
Topic: Death, Life
XXX
NOT YET RATING
▼
Six hundred and forty fish later, the only thing I know is everything you love will die. The first time you meet someone special, you can count on them one day being dead and in the ground.
- Chuck Palahniuk
Survivor
Topic: Death, Life, Relationships
There are three deaths. The first is when the body ceases to function. The second is when the body is consigned to the grave. The third is that moment, sometime in the future, when your name is spoken for the last time.
- David M. Eagleman
Sum: Forty Tales from the Afterlives
NOT YET RATING
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Topic: Death, Life
I saw the world from the stars' point of view, and it looked unbearably lonely.
- Shaun David Hutchinson
We Are the Ants
NOT YET RATING
▼
Topic: Death, Life
Every widow wakes one morning, perhaps after years of pure and unwavering grieving, to realize she slept a good night's sleep, and will be able to eat breakfast, and doesn't hear her husband's ghost all the time, but only some of the time. Her grief is replaced with a useful sadness. Every parent who loses a child finds a way to laugh again. The timbre begins to fade. The edge dulls. The hurt lessens. Every love is carved from loss. Mine was. Yours is. Your great-great-great-grandchildren's will be. But we learn to live in that love.
- Jonathan Safran Foer
Everything is Illuminated
NOT YET RATING
▼
Topic: Death, Life
The fact that life has no meaning is a reason to live --moreover, the only one.
- E. M. Cioran
NOT YET RATING
▼
Topic: Death, Life
XXX
NOT YET RATING
▼
I enjoy almost everything. Yet I have some restless searcher in me. Why is there not a discovery in life? Something one can lay hands on and say “This is it”? My depression is a harassed feeling. I’m looking: but that’s not it — that’s not it. What is it? And shall I die before I find it?
- Virginia Woolf
A Writer's Diary
Topic: Life
The greatest wealth is health
- Virgil
NOT YET RATING
▼
Topic: Life
One day can change your life. One day can ruin your life. All life is is three or four big days that change everything.
- Beverly Donofrio
NOT YET RATING
▼
Topic: Life
Life is merely a series of moments and is in fact an unflinching serial killer, since it kills steadily each moment one after the other. Memory is the only survivor. (“Just for a moment”)
NOT YET RATING
▼
Topic: Life
Life can be generous, but leaves us with a trilemma: How can we reconcile three diverse features: ‘I’, 'me' and the 'others'. Since the “I” entails what I want; the “me” what others expect of me and the “others” what others themselves want. The bridges between "individuality", “surroundings” and "otherness" can be abysmal and very often waiting to be restored. (“I am on my own side, but I can listen “ )
NOT YET RATING
▼
Topic: Life
Do not let yourself be bothered by the inconsequential. One has only so much time in this world, so devote it to the work and the people most important to you, to those you love and things that matter. One can waste half a lifetime with people one doesn't really like, or doing things when one would be better off somewhere else.
- Louis L'Amour
Ride the River
NOT YET RATING
▼
Topic: Life, Philosophical
The young always have the same problem - how to rebel and conform at the same time. They have now solved this by defying their parents and copying one another.
- Quentin Crisp
NOT YET RATING
▼
Topic: Life
XXX
NOT YET RATING
▼
A mistake isn’t a mistake unless it can’t be put right.
- Sophie Kinsella
The Undomestic Goddess
Topic: Life
Comes the tipping point in life, when we decide to a ‘stop and search’ and our emotional police bring us to a standstill. This allows us to scan all the little details in the spectrum of our being; scour all fuzzy or cryptic elements that are floating around in our mind and restore the fault lines in the cluttered tale of our life. ("The world was somewhere else")
NOT YET RATING
▼
Topic: Life
Life gives us a flair of awareness in the breeze of our daily journey and offers a free reign to explore what we are, to experience what we are not and to find out what we may become: a free ride until everything melts down into the indistinct and indefinite, while walking up to the ultimate gate of non-existence. ("Living on probation")
NOT YET RATING
▼
Topic: Life
When people are just drifting along the tides of life and can’t see the shores of reality anymore, they may experience someday the irresistible desire for a liberating burst, emerging deeply from the inner self and disentangling them from their manufactured pattern. That day might be a day of all possibilities and make them ready to hit the ground running. ("A change of vision" )
NOT YET RATING
▼
Topic: Life
In a well-ordered universe...
- Morgan Matson
Since You've Been Gone
NOT YET RATING
▼
Topic: Life
Once again, life had a lesson to teach me: It takes years to build up, it takes moments to destroy.
- Haruki Murakami
Hard-Boiled Wonderland and the End of the World
NOT YET RATING
▼
Topic: Life
Life should not be a journey to the grave with the intention of arriving safely in a pretty and well preserved body, but rather to skid in broadside in a cloud of smoke, thoroughly used up, totally worn out, and loudly proclaiming "Wow! What a Ride!
- Hunter S. Thompson
The Proud Highway: Saga of a Desperate Southern Gentleman, 1955-1967
NOT YET RATING
▼
Topic: Death, Life
Life is for the living.
Death is for the dead.
Let life be like music.
And death a note unsaid.
- Langston Hughes
The Collected Poems
NOT YET RATING
▼
Topic: Death, Life
I go to seek a Great Perhaps.
- François Rabelais
NOT YET RATING
▼
Topic: Death, Life
XXX
NOT YET RATING
▼
Every man's life ends the same way. It is only the details of how he lived and how he died that distinguish one man from another.
Topic: Death, Life
Life is tragic simply because the earth turns and the sun inexorably rises and sets, and one day, for each of us, the sun will go down for the last, last time. Perhaps the whole root of our trouble, the human trouble, is that we will sacrifice all the beauty of our lives, will imprison ourselves in totems, taboos, crosses, blood sacrifices, steeples, mosques, races, armies, flags, nations, in order to deny the fact of death, the only fact we have. It seems to me that one ought to rejoice in the fact of death--ought to decide, indeed, to earn one's death by confronting with passion the conundrum of life. One is responsible for life: It is the small beacon in that terrifying darkness from which we come and to which we shall return.
- James Baldwin
The Fire Next Time
NOT YET RATING
▼
Topic: Death, Life, Religion
Pulvis et umbra sumus. (We are but dust and shadow.)
- Horace
The Odes of Horace
NOT YET RATING
▼
Topic: Death, Life
XXX
NOT YET RATING
▼
Six hundred and forty fish later, the only thing I know is everything you love will die. The first time you meet someone special, you can count on them one day being dead and in the ground.
- Chuck Palahniuk
Survivor
Topic: Death, Life, Relationships
There are three deaths. The first is when the body ceases to function. The second is when the body is consigned to the grave. The third is that moment, sometime in the future, when your name is spoken for the last time.
- David M. Eagleman
Sum: Forty Tales from the Afterlives
NOT YET RATING
▼
Topic: Death, Life
I saw the world from the stars' point of view, and it looked unbearably lonely.
- Shaun David Hutchinson
We Are the Ants
NOT YET RATING
▼
Topic: Death, Life
Every widow wakes one morning, perhaps after years of pure and unwavering grieving, to realize she slept a good night's sleep, and will be able to eat breakfast, and doesn't hear her husband's ghost all the time, but only some of the time. Her grief is replaced with a useful sadness. Every parent who loses a child finds a way to laugh again. The timbre begins to fade. The edge dulls. The hurt lessens. Every love is carved from loss. Mine was. Yours is. Your great-great-great-grandchildren's will be. But we learn to live in that love.
- Jonathan Safran Foer
Everything is Illuminated
NOT YET RATING
▼
Topic: Death, Life
The fact that life has no meaning is a reason to live --moreover, the only one.
- E. M. Cioran
NOT YET RATING
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Topic: Death, Life
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