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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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Single is not a status, it is a word that describes a person who is strong enough to live and enjoy life without depending on others.
- prixie
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We are all dying, every moment that passes of every day. That is the inescapable truth of this existence. It is a truth that can paralyze us with fear, or one that can energize us with impatience, with the desire to explore and experience, with the hope- nay, the iron-will!- to find a memory in every action. To be alive, under sunshine, or starlight, in weather fair or stormy. To dance with every step, be they through gardens of flowers or through deep snows.
- R.A. Salvatore
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As I reached the door, the constable said, “Good luck in Canada, son.” For a second I expected his voice to morph into Uncle Sid’s as he urged me to give his love to Rose Marie and the Mounties.
- Michael Wyndham Thomas
The Erkeley Shadows
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Consciousness is much more than the thorn, it is the dagger in the flesh.
- Émile Michel Cioran
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How does fear become so powerful? We can’t see it. We can’t touch it, yet it gets its claws in us and begins to control us. Sigh. I hate feeling afraid, and I hate, hate, HATE feeling out of control.
- Gena Showalter
Oh My Goth
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Life is hell, at some point we all just have to get used to it.
- Alysha Speer
Sharden
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We must be willing to get rid of
the life we’ve planned, so as to have
the life that is waiting for us.

The old skin has to be shed
before the new one can come.

If we fix on the old, we get stuck.
When we hang onto any form,
we are in danger of putrefaction.

Hell is life drying up.
- Joseph Campbell
A Joseph Campbell Companion: Reflections on the Art of Living
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There it was before her - life. Life: she thought but she did not finish her thought. She took a look at life, for she had a clear sense of it there, something real, something private, which she shared neither with her children nor with her husband. A sort of transaction went on between them, in which she was on one side, and life was on another, and she was always trying to get the better of it, as it was of her; and sometimes they parleyed (when she sat alone); there were, she remembered, great reconciliation scenes; but for the most part, oddly enough, she must admit that she felt this thing that she called life terrible, hostile, and quick to pounce on you if you gave it a chance.
- Virginia Woolf
To the Lighthouse
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I DON'T CARE!" Harry yelled at them, snatching up a lunascope and throwing it into the fireplace. "I'VE HAD ENOUGH, I'VE SEEN ENOUGH, I WANT OUT, I WANT IT TO END, I DON'T CARE ANYMORE!"
"You do care," said Dumbledore. He had not flinched or made a single move to stop Harry demolishing his office. His expression was calm, almost detached. "You care so much you feel as though you will bleed to death with the pain of it.
- J.K. Rowling
Harry Potter and the Order of the Phoenix
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It is said that your life flashes before your eyes just before you die. That is true, it's called Life.
- Terry Pratchett
The Last Continent
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Even death has a heart.
- Markus Zusak
The Book Thief
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One lives in the hope of becoming a memory.
- Antonio Porchia
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I am afraid. Not of life, or death, or nothingness, but of wasting it as if I had never been.
- Daniel Keyes
Flowers for Algernon
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I have noticed that even those who assert that everything is predestined and that we can change nothing about it still look both ways before they cross the street.
- Stephen Hawking
Black Holes and Baby Universes and Other Essays
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If after I die, people want to write my biography, there is nothing simpler. They only need two dates: the date of my birth and the date of my death. Between one and another, every day is mine.
- Fernando Pessoa
Poems of Fernando Pessoa
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End? No, the journey doesn't end here. Death is just another path. One that we all must take.
- J.R.R. Tolkien
The Return of the King
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regret is mostly caused by not having
done anything.
- Charles Bukowski
You Get So Alone at Times That it Just Makes Sense
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I am afraid because I can so clearly foresee my own life rotting away of itself, like a leaf that rots without falling, while I pursue my round of existence from day to day.
- Osamu Dazai
The Setting Sun
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Casting aside other things, hold to the precious few; and besides bear in mind that every man lives only the present, which is an indivisible point, and that all the rest of his life is either past or is uncertain. Brief is man's life and small the nook of the earth where he lives; brief, too, is the longest posthumous fame, buoyed only by a succession of poor human beings who will very soon die and who know little of themselves, much less of someone who died long ago.
- Marcus Aurelius
Meditations
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The cradle rocks above an abyss, and common sense tells us that our existence is but a brief crack of light between two eternities of darkness.
- Vladimir Nabokov
Speak, Memory
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I always knew, on some level, that I wouldn't live long. It's simply not written in my stars.
- Marie Lu
Champion
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When we fully understand the brevity of life, its fleeting joys and unavoidable pains; when we accept the facts that all men and women are approaching an inevitable doom: the consciousness of it should make us more kindly and considerate of each other. This feeling should make men and women use their best efforts to help their fellow travelers on the road, to make the path brighter and easier as we journey on. It should bring a closer kinship, a better understanding, and a deeper sympathy for the wayfarers who must live a common life and die a common death.
- Clarence Darrow
The Essential Words and Writings of Clarence Darrow
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There is one who remembers the way to your door: Life you may evade, but Death you shall not.
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There is a certain right by which we many deprive a man of life, but none by which we may deprive him of death; this is mere cruelty.
- Friedrich Nietzsche
Human, All Too Human: A Book for Free Spirits
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Single is not a status, it is a word that describes a person who is strong enough to live and enjoy life without depending on others.
- prixie
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We are all dying, every moment that passes of every day. That is the inescapable truth of this existence. It is a truth that can paralyze us with fear, or one that can energize us with impatience, with the desire to explore and experience, with the hope- nay, the iron-will!- to find a memory in every action. To be alive, under sunshine, or starlight, in weather fair or stormy. To dance with every step, be they through gardens of flowers or through deep snows.
- R.A. Salvatore
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As I reached the door, the constable said, “Good luck in Canada, son.” For a second I expected his voice to morph into Uncle Sid’s as he urged me to give his love to Rose Marie and the Mounties.
- Michael Wyndham Thomas
The Erkeley Shadows
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Consciousness is much more than the thorn, it is the dagger in the flesh.
- Émile Michel Cioran
Avg Rating: --Rate This Quote
How does fear become so powerful? We can’t see it. We can’t touch it, yet it gets its claws in us and begins to control us. Sigh. I hate feeling afraid, and I hate, hate, HATE feeling out of control.
- Gena Showalter
Oh My Goth
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Life is hell, at some point we all just have to get used to it.
- Alysha Speer
Sharden
Avg Rating: --Rate This Quote
We must be willing to get rid of
the life we’ve planned, so as to have
the life that is waiting for us.

The old skin has to be shed
before the new one can come.

If we fix on the old, we get stuck.
When we hang onto any form,
we are in danger of putrefaction.

Hell is life drying up.
- Joseph Campbell
A Joseph Campbell Companion: Reflections on the Art of Living
Avg Rating: --Rate This Quote
There it was before her - life. Life: she thought but she did not finish her thought. She took a look at life, for she had a clear sense of it there, something real, something private, which she shared neither with her children nor with her husband. A sort of transaction went on between them, in which she was on one side, and life was on another, and she was always trying to get the better of it, as it was of her; and sometimes they parleyed (when she sat alone); there were, she remembered, great reconciliation scenes; but for the most part, oddly enough, she must admit that she felt this thing that she called life terrible, hostile, and quick to pounce on you if you gave it a chance.
- Virginia Woolf
To the Lighthouse
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I DON'T CARE!" Harry yelled at them, snatching up a lunascope and throwing it into the fireplace. "I'VE HAD ENOUGH, I'VE SEEN ENOUGH, I WANT OUT, I WANT IT TO END, I DON'T CARE ANYMORE!"
"You do care," said Dumbledore. He had not flinched or made a single move to stop Harry demolishing his office. His expression was calm, almost detached. "You care so much you feel as though you will bleed to death with the pain of it.
- J.K. Rowling
Harry Potter and the Order of the Phoenix
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It is said that your life flashes before your eyes just before you die. That is true, it's called Life.
- Terry Pratchett
The Last Continent
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Even death has a heart.
- Markus Zusak
The Book Thief
Avg Rating: --Rate This Quote
One lives in the hope of becoming a memory.
- Antonio Porchia
Avg Rating: --Rate This Quote
I am afraid. Not of life, or death, or nothingness, but of wasting it as if I had never been.
- Daniel Keyes
Flowers for Algernon
Avg Rating: --Rate This Quote
I have noticed that even those who assert that everything is predestined and that we can change nothing about it still look both ways before they cross the street.
- Stephen Hawking
Black Holes and Baby Universes and Other Essays
Avg Rating: --Rate This Quote
If after I die, people want to write my biography, there is nothing simpler. They only need two dates: the date of my birth and the date of my death. Between one and another, every day is mine.
- Fernando Pessoa
Poems of Fernando Pessoa
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End? No, the journey doesn't end here. Death is just another path. One that we all must take.
- J.R.R. Tolkien
The Return of the King
Avg Rating: --Rate This Quote
regret is mostly caused by not having
done anything.
- Charles Bukowski
You Get So Alone at Times That it Just Makes Sense
Avg Rating: --Rate This Quote
I am afraid because I can so clearly foresee my own life rotting away of itself, like a leaf that rots without falling, while I pursue my round of existence from day to day.
- Osamu Dazai
The Setting Sun
Avg Rating: --Rate This Quote
Casting aside other things, hold to the precious few; and besides bear in mind that every man lives only the present, which is an indivisible point, and that all the rest of his life is either past or is uncertain. Brief is man's life and small the nook of the earth where he lives; brief, too, is the longest posthumous fame, buoyed only by a succession of poor human beings who will very soon die and who know little of themselves, much less of someone who died long ago.
- Marcus Aurelius
Meditations
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The cradle rocks above an abyss, and common sense tells us that our existence is but a brief crack of light between two eternities of darkness.
- Vladimir Nabokov
Speak, Memory
Avg Rating: --Rate This Quote
I always knew, on some level, that I wouldn't live long. It's simply not written in my stars.
- Marie Lu
Champion
Avg Rating: --Rate This Quote
When we fully understand the brevity of life, its fleeting joys and unavoidable pains; when we accept the facts that all men and women are approaching an inevitable doom: the consciousness of it should make us more kindly and considerate of each other. This feeling should make men and women use their best efforts to help their fellow travelers on the road, to make the path brighter and easier as we journey on. It should bring a closer kinship, a better understanding, and a deeper sympathy for the wayfarers who must live a common life and die a common death.
- Clarence Darrow
The Essential Words and Writings of Clarence Darrow
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There is one who remembers the way to your door: Life you may evade, but Death you shall not.
Avg Rating: --Rate This Quote
There is a certain right by which we many deprive a man of life, but none by which we may deprive him of death; this is mere cruelty.
- Friedrich Nietzsche
Human, All Too Human: A Book for Free Spirits
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Single is not a status, it is a word that describes a person who is strong enough to live and enjoy life without depending on others.
- prixie
Avg Rating: --Rate This Quote
We are all dying, every moment that passes of every day. That is the inescapable truth of this existence. It is a truth that can paralyze us with fear, or one that can energize us with impatience, with the desire to explore and experience, with the hope- nay, the iron-will!- to find a memory in every action. To be alive, under sunshine, or starlight, in weather fair or stormy. To dance with every step, be they through gardens of flowers or through deep snows.
- R.A. Salvatore
Avg Rating: --Rate This Quote
As I reached the door, the constable said, “Good luck in Canada, son.” For a second I expected his voice to morph into Uncle Sid’s as he urged me to give his love to Rose Marie and the Mounties.
- Michael Wyndham Thomas
The Erkeley Shadows
Avg Rating: --Rate This Quote
Consciousness is much more than the thorn, it is the dagger in the flesh.
- Émile Michel Cioran
Avg Rating: --Rate This Quote
How does fear become so powerful? We can’t see it. We can’t touch it, yet it gets its claws in us and begins to control us. Sigh. I hate feeling afraid, and I hate, hate, HATE feeling out of control.
- Gena Showalter
Oh My Goth
Avg Rating: --Rate This Quote
Life is hell, at some point we all just have to get used to it.
- Alysha Speer
Sharden
Avg Rating: --Rate This Quote
We must be willing to get rid of
the life we’ve planned, so as to have
the life that is waiting for us.

The old skin has to be shed
before the new one can come.

If we fix on the old, we get stuck.
When we hang onto any form,
we are in danger of putrefaction.

Hell is life drying up.
- Joseph Campbell
A Joseph Campbell Companion: Reflections on the Art of Living
Avg Rating: --Rate This Quote
There it was before her - life. Life: she thought but she did not finish her thought. She took a look at life, for she had a clear sense of it there, something real, something private, which she shared neither with her children nor with her husband. A sort of transaction went on between them, in which she was on one side, and life was on another, and she was always trying to get the better of it, as it was of her; and sometimes they parleyed (when she sat alone); there were, she remembered, great reconciliation scenes; but for the most part, oddly enough, she must admit that she felt this thing that she called life terrible, hostile, and quick to pounce on you if you gave it a chance.
- Virginia Woolf
To the Lighthouse
Avg Rating: --Rate This Quote
I DON'T CARE!" Harry yelled at them, snatching up a lunascope and throwing it into the fireplace. "I'VE HAD ENOUGH, I'VE SEEN ENOUGH, I WANT OUT, I WANT IT TO END, I DON'T CARE ANYMORE!"
"You do care," said Dumbledore. He had not flinched or made a single move to stop Harry demolishing his office. His expression was calm, almost detached. "You care so much you feel as though you will bleed to death with the pain of it.
- J.K. Rowling
Harry Potter and the Order of the Phoenix
Avg Rating: --Rate This Quote
It is said that your life flashes before your eyes just before you die. That is true, it's called Life.
- Terry Pratchett
The Last Continent
Avg Rating: --Rate This Quote
Even death has a heart.
- Markus Zusak
The Book Thief
Avg Rating: --Rate This Quote
One lives in the hope of becoming a memory.
- Antonio Porchia
Avg Rating: --Rate This Quote
I am afraid. Not of life, or death, or nothingness, but of wasting it as if I had never been.
- Daniel Keyes
Flowers for Algernon
Avg Rating: --Rate This Quote
I have noticed that even those who assert that everything is predestined and that we can change nothing about it still look both ways before they cross the street.
- Stephen Hawking
Black Holes and Baby Universes and Other Essays
Avg Rating: --Rate This Quote
If after I die, people want to write my biography, there is nothing simpler. They only need two dates: the date of my birth and the date of my death. Between one and another, every day is mine.
- Fernando Pessoa
Poems of Fernando Pessoa
Avg Rating: --Rate This Quote
End? No, the journey doesn't end here. Death is just another path. One that we all must take.
- J.R.R. Tolkien
The Return of the King
Avg Rating: --Rate This Quote
regret is mostly caused by not having
done anything.
- Charles Bukowski
You Get So Alone at Times That it Just Makes Sense
Avg Rating: --Rate This Quote
I am afraid because I can so clearly foresee my own life rotting away of itself, like a leaf that rots without falling, while I pursue my round of existence from day to day.
- Osamu Dazai
The Setting Sun
Avg Rating: --Rate This Quote
Casting aside other things, hold to the precious few; and besides bear in mind that every man lives only the present, which is an indivisible point, and that all the rest of his life is either past or is uncertain. Brief is man's life and small the nook of the earth where he lives; brief, too, is the longest posthumous fame, buoyed only by a succession of poor human beings who will very soon die and who know little of themselves, much less of someone who died long ago.
- Marcus Aurelius
Meditations
Avg Rating: --Rate This Quote
The cradle rocks above an abyss, and common sense tells us that our existence is but a brief crack of light between two eternities of darkness.
- Vladimir Nabokov
Speak, Memory
Avg Rating: --Rate This Quote
I always knew, on some level, that I wouldn't live long. It's simply not written in my stars.
- Marie Lu
Champion
Avg Rating: --Rate This Quote
When we fully understand the brevity of life, its fleeting joys and unavoidable pains; when we accept the facts that all men and women are approaching an inevitable doom: the consciousness of it should make us more kindly and considerate of each other. This feeling should make men and women use their best efforts to help their fellow travelers on the road, to make the path brighter and easier as we journey on. It should bring a closer kinship, a better understanding, and a deeper sympathy for the wayfarers who must live a common life and die a common death.
- Clarence Darrow
The Essential Words and Writings of Clarence Darrow
Avg Rating: --Rate This Quote
There is one who remembers the way to your door: Life you may evade, but Death you shall not.
Avg Rating: --Rate This Quote
There is a certain right by which we many deprive a man of life, but none by which we may deprive him of death; this is mere cruelty.
- Friedrich Nietzsche
Human, All Too Human: A Book for Free Spirits
Avg Rating: --Rate This Quote
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