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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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Something that is yours forever is never precious
- Chaim Potok
My Name Is Asher Lev
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Many things are not as they seem: The worst things in life never are.
- Jim Butcher
White Night
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You’re like a lighthouse shining beside the sea of humanity, motionless: all you can see is your own reflection in the water. You’re alone, so you think it’s a vast, magnificent panorama. You haven’t sounded the depths. You simply believe in the beauty of God’s creation. But I have spent all this time in the water, diving deep into the howling ocean of life, deeper than anyone. While you were admiring the surface, I saw the shipwrecks, the drowned bodies, the monsters of the deep
- Alfred De Musset
Lorenzaccio
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I'm hungry for a juicy life. I lean out my window at night and I can taste it out there, just waiting for me.
- Brigid Lowry
Guitar Highway Rose
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I know how you feel, Willem," Andy had said in one of their secret conversations, "but he doesn't want you to admire him; he wants you to see him as he is. He wants you to tell him that his life, as inconceivable as it is, is still a life.
- Hanya Yanagihara
A Little Life
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If consumption is a main goal in life, labor has become a painful gate to buying things, which are often unnecessary or totally useless.

"Sorry, insufficient funds, goodbye!".
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Journey’s end

In western lands beneath the Sun
The flowers may rise in Spring,
The trees may bud, the waters run,
The merry finches sing.
Or there maybe 'tis cloudless night,
And swaying branches bear
The Elven-stars as jewels white
Amid their branching hair.

Though here at journey's end I lie
In darkness buried deep,
Beyond all towers strong and high,
Beyond all mountains steep,
Above all shadows rides the Sun
And Stars for ever dwell:
I will not say the Day is done,
Nor bid the Stars farewell.J.
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Take advantage of it now, while you are young, and suffer all you can, because these things don't last your whole life.
- Gabriel García Márquez
Love in the Time of Cholera
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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
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The greatest wealth is health
- Virgil
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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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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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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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A mistake isn’t a mistake unless it can’t be put right.
- Sophie Kinsella
The Undomestic Goddess
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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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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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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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In a well-ordered universe...
- Morgan Matson
Since You've Been Gone
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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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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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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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I go to seek a Great Perhaps.
- François Rabelais
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Something that is yours forever is never precious
- Chaim Potok
My Name Is Asher Lev
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Many things are not as they seem: The worst things in life never are.
- Jim Butcher
White Night
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You’re like a lighthouse shining beside the sea of humanity, motionless: all you can see is your own reflection in the water. You’re alone, so you think it’s a vast, magnificent panorama. You haven’t sounded the depths. You simply believe in the beauty of God’s creation. But I have spent all this time in the water, diving deep into the howling ocean of life, deeper than anyone. While you were admiring the surface, I saw the shipwrecks, the drowned bodies, the monsters of the deep
- Alfred De Musset
Lorenzaccio
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I'm hungry for a juicy life. I lean out my window at night and I can taste it out there, just waiting for me.
- Brigid Lowry
Guitar Highway Rose
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I know how you feel, Willem," Andy had said in one of their secret conversations, "but he doesn't want you to admire him; he wants you to see him as he is. He wants you to tell him that his life, as inconceivable as it is, is still a life.
- Hanya Yanagihara
A Little Life
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If consumption is a main goal in life, labor has become a painful gate to buying things, which are often unnecessary or totally useless.

"Sorry, insufficient funds, goodbye!".
Avg Rating: --Rate This Quote
Journey’s end

In western lands beneath the Sun
The flowers may rise in Spring,
The trees may bud, the waters run,
The merry finches sing.
Or there maybe 'tis cloudless night,
And swaying branches bear
The Elven-stars as jewels white
Amid their branching hair.

Though here at journey's end I lie
In darkness buried deep,
Beyond all towers strong and high,
Beyond all mountains steep,
Above all shadows rides the Sun
And Stars for ever dwell:
I will not say the Day is done,
Nor bid the Stars farewell.J.
Avg Rating: --Rate This Quote
Take advantage of it now, while you are young, and suffer all you can, because these things don't last your whole life.
- Gabriel García Márquez
Love in the Time of Cholera
Avg Rating: --Rate This Quote
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
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The greatest wealth is health
- Virgil
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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
Avg Rating: --Rate This Quote
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”)
Avg Rating: --Rate This Quote
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 “ )
Avg Rating: --Rate This Quote
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
Avg Rating: --Rate This Quote
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
Avg Rating: --Rate This Quote
A mistake isn’t a mistake unless it can’t be put right.
- Sophie Kinsella
The Undomestic Goddess
Avg Rating: --Rate This Quote
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")
Avg Rating: --Rate This Quote
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")
Avg Rating: --Rate This Quote
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" )
Avg Rating: --Rate This Quote
In a well-ordered universe...
- Morgan Matson
Since You've Been Gone
Avg Rating: --Rate This Quote
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
Avg Rating: --Rate This Quote
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
Avg Rating: --Rate This Quote
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
Avg Rating: --Rate This Quote
I go to seek a Great Perhaps.
- François Rabelais
Avg Rating: --Rate This Quote
Something that is yours forever is never precious
- Chaim Potok
My Name Is Asher Lev
Avg Rating: --Rate This Quote
Many things are not as they seem: The worst things in life never are.
- Jim Butcher
White Night
Avg Rating: --Rate This Quote
You’re like a lighthouse shining beside the sea of humanity, motionless: all you can see is your own reflection in the water. You’re alone, so you think it’s a vast, magnificent panorama. You haven’t sounded the depths. You simply believe in the beauty of God’s creation. But I have spent all this time in the water, diving deep into the howling ocean of life, deeper than anyone. While you were admiring the surface, I saw the shipwrecks, the drowned bodies, the monsters of the deep
- Alfred De Musset
Lorenzaccio
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I'm hungry for a juicy life. I lean out my window at night and I can taste it out there, just waiting for me.
- Brigid Lowry
Guitar Highway Rose
Avg Rating: --Rate This Quote
I know how you feel, Willem," Andy had said in one of their secret conversations, "but he doesn't want you to admire him; he wants you to see him as he is. He wants you to tell him that his life, as inconceivable as it is, is still a life.
- Hanya Yanagihara
A Little Life
Avg Rating: --Rate This Quote
If consumption is a main goal in life, labor has become a painful gate to buying things, which are often unnecessary or totally useless.

"Sorry, insufficient funds, goodbye!".
Avg Rating: --Rate This Quote
Journey’s end

In western lands beneath the Sun
The flowers may rise in Spring,
The trees may bud, the waters run,
The merry finches sing.
Or there maybe 'tis cloudless night,
And swaying branches bear
The Elven-stars as jewels white
Amid their branching hair.

Though here at journey's end I lie
In darkness buried deep,
Beyond all towers strong and high,
Beyond all mountains steep,
Above all shadows rides the Sun
And Stars for ever dwell:
I will not say the Day is done,
Nor bid the Stars farewell.J.
Avg Rating: --Rate This Quote
Take advantage of it now, while you are young, and suffer all you can, because these things don't last your whole life.
- Gabriel García Márquez
Love in the Time of Cholera
Avg Rating: --Rate This Quote
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
Avg Rating: --Rate This Quote
The greatest wealth is health
- Virgil
Avg Rating: --Rate This Quote
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
Avg Rating: --Rate This Quote
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”)
Avg Rating: --Rate This Quote
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 “ )
Avg Rating: --Rate This Quote
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
Avg Rating: --Rate This Quote
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
Avg Rating: --Rate This Quote
A mistake isn’t a mistake unless it can’t be put right.
- Sophie Kinsella
The Undomestic Goddess
Avg Rating: --Rate This Quote
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")
Avg Rating: --Rate This Quote
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")
Avg Rating: --Rate This Quote
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" )
Avg Rating: --Rate This Quote
In a well-ordered universe...
- Morgan Matson
Since You've Been Gone
Avg Rating: --Rate This Quote
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
Avg Rating: --Rate This Quote
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
Avg Rating: --Rate This Quote
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
Avg Rating: --Rate This Quote
I go to seek a Great Perhaps.
- François Rabelais
Avg Rating: --Rate This Quote
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