Life quotes

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We are not in the world to do what we want, but to discover what we are meant to do. Isabel Allende
We have a soul; at times it breaks loose. Jose Saramago
And the air was full of thoughts and things to say. Arundhati Roy
Home is not where you are born; home is where all your attempts to escape cease. Naguib Mahfouz
Life is to be lived, not controlled. Ralph Ellison
It is good to have an end to journey toward; but it is the journey that matters, in the end. Ursula K. Le Guin
Many men are alive simply because it is against the law to kill them. Joseph Heller
Old age isn't a battle; old age is a massacre. Philip Roth
We are all such accidents. We do not make up history and culture. We simply appear, not by our own choice. Saul Bellow
You don't get to chose how you're going to die. Or when. You can only decide how you're going to live. Zadie Smith
That life — whatever else it is — is short. Donna Tartt
Even death has a heart. Markus Zusak
You know what the tragedy is? Most people have no music in them. Anthony Doerr
How we read a book, like how we live a life, is up to us. Matt Haig
Every person's life is worth a novel. Nicholas Sparks
Different roads sometimes lead to the same castle. George R.R. Martin
The end is nothing; the road is all. Willa Cather
Two possibilities exist: either we are alone in the universe or we are not. Both are equally terrifying. Arthur C. Clarke
Death is not the opposite of life, but a part of it. Haruki Murakami
Should I kill myself, or have a cup of coffee? Albert Camus
Man is condemned to be free. Jean-Paul Sartre
All great literature is one of two stories; a man goes on a journey or a stranger comes to town. Leo Tolstoy
Travel brings power and love back into your life. Rumi
Our lives are all the same length. It's only the manner of living them that differs. Brandon Sanderson
Only in silence the word, only in dark the light, only in dying life. Ursula K. Le Guin
We shouldn't live as if death mattered more than life. Philip Pullman
We're all stardust and stories. Erin Morgenstern
Does the walker choose the path, or the path the walker? Garth Nix
We are made who we are by the people we have known, the things we have done, the dreams we have held onto. Guy Gavriel Kay
This is how it always begins. With a sound. R.F. Kuang
We are all stories in the end. We choose how we tell them. Robin Hobb
You don't get to choose how you're going to die. You can only decide how you're going to live. Mercedes Lackey
Do you not know that a man is not dead while his name is still spoken? Terry Pratchett
No one is actually dead until the ripples they cause in the world die away. Terry Pratchett
You get what anybody gets. You get a lifetime. Neil Gaiman
Adventures are great, but you have to come home eventually. V.E. Schwab
The journey is your life. It is your everything. Brandon Sanderson
People's whole lives do pass in front of their eyes before they die. The process is called living. Terry Pratchett
Journey before destination. Sometimes the journey is all we have. Brandon Sanderson
Light thinks it travels faster than anything but it is wrong. No matter how fast light travels, it finds… Terry Pratchett
You will die. You will not live forever. Nor will any man nor any thing. Nothing is immortal. But only to… Ursula K. Le Guin
Time is a great teacher, but unfortunately it kills all its pupils. Robin Hobb
Everyone's life is a story, and every story is unique. Michael Ende
We lead our lives like water flowing down a hill, going more or less in one direction until we splash into… Erin Morgenstern
To wander is to be alive. Christopher Paolini
We can never know what to want, because, living only one life, we can neither compare it with our previous… Guy Gavriel Kay
Time's the thief of memory. Stephen King
Man is a creature in search of meaning, and the search itself gives life its shape. Lord Dunsany
Life is empty when all you're trying to do is keep yourself alive. Brent Weeks
Inside every old person is a young person wondering what happened. Terry Pratchett
That's the trouble with living things. Don't last very long. Kittens one day, old cats the next. Neil Gaiman
Death is a great teacher. It teaches you to live. V.E. Schwab
There are no happy endings. There are no endings, happy or otherwise. We all have our own stories which… Patrick Rothfuss
If you were to be lost in the river, your memories would not be lost with you. Memories are forever. Lois Lowry
Life is made of so many moments that mean nothing. Then one day, a single moment comes along to define… Sabaa Tahir
It is the legacy we leave behind that gives our short lives meaning. Sabaa Tahir
Death is the great equalizer. It comes for kings and beggars alike. Jonathan Stroud
We are all stories in the end. Make yours a good one. V.E. Schwab
To live is the rarest thing in the world. Most people just exist. Ransom Riggs
A fragile thing, this map. A single guide through the wilderness of a life. Erin Morgenstern
Stories live forever, but storytellers do not. Erin Morgenstern
We are all stories, in the end. Make sure yours is worth telling. Terry Pratchett
It is not that we have a short time to live, but that we waste a lot of it. Seneca
As is a tale, so is life: not how long it is, but how good it is, is what matters. Seneca
We are not put on this earth merely to be happy. We are put here to experience life, fully. Japanese Proverb
The life of the dead is placed in the memory of the living. Cicero
We have two lives, and the second begins when we realize we only have one. Confucius
We will be known forever by the tracks we leave. Native American Proverb
To everything there is a season, and a time to every purpose under heaven. Ecclesiastes
The world is a stage, life is a passage: you came, you saw, you departed. Democritus
I am not Athenian or Greek, but a citizen of the world. Diogenes
Life is really simple, but we insist on making it complicated. Confucius
Life is long if you know how to use it. Seneca

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