Life Quotes

Collection of phrases and quotes about life.

Anton Chekhov

Anton Chekhov

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The common man expects the good and the bad from the outside, the thinking man expects it from himself.

Earl of Chesterfield

Earl of Chesterfield

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If we do not plant the tree of wisdom when we are young, it will not be able to lend us its shade in old age.

Gilbert Keith Chesterton

Gilbert Keith Chesterton

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The adventure may be crazy, but the adventurer must be sane.

Gilbert Keith Chesterton

Gilbert Keith Chesterton

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Are you a demon? I am a man. And therefore I have within me all the demons.

Gilbert Keith Chesterton

Gilbert Keith Chesterton

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It has always been believed that there is something called destiny, but it has also always been believed that there is another thing called free will. What qualifies a man is the balance of that contradiction.

Gilbert Keith Chesterton

Gilbert Keith Chesterton

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Crazy is not the one who has lost their reason, but the one who has lost everything, everything, except for reason.

Rafael Chirbes

Rafael Chirbes

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All youth look alike. It's in maturity when the difference begins, we differ in how we resolve that original unease, in how we approach the crossroads that we encounter at the exit of youth.

Rafael Chirbes

Rafael Chirbes

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A veces carry things with an importance that only exists in our heads.

Frédéric Chopin

Frédéric Chopin

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Every difficulty avoided will later become a ghost that will disturb our rest.

Agatha Christie

Agatha Christie

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I learned that you cannot go back, that the essence of life is to move forward. Life, in reality, is a one-way street.

Agatha Christie

Agatha Christie

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Evil is not something superhuman, it is something less than human.

Winston Churchill

Winston Churchill

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Old words are the best, and short ones are the best of all.