Quotes About Life

Man is a simple being, and however rich, varied, and unfathomable he may be, the cycle of his situations is soon run through.

Pleasure never comes sincere to man; but lent by heaven upon hard usury.

When Man evolved Pity, he did a queer thing - deprived himself of the power of living life as it is without wishing it to become something different.

Men will not always die quietly.

No man at all can be living forever and we must be satisfied.

Life is a problem; mortal man was made to solve the solemn problem right or wrong.

When a man comes to die, no matter what his talents and influences and genius, if he dies unloved his life must be a failure to him and his dying a cold horror.

Men and governments must act to the best of their ability. There is no such thing as absolute certainty but there is assurance sufficient for the purposes of human life.

When men grow virtuous in their old age, they only make a sacrifice to God of the devil's leavings.

The form most contradictory to human life that can appear among the human species is the "self-satisfied man."

The man who will live above his present circumstances, is in great danger of soon living beneath them; or as the Italian proverb says, "The man that lives by hope, will die by despair.

I used to worry about every little thing, trying to figure out every problem. Well, I realize now how foolish that was. I was no more in control of my life than the man on the moon.

But the great leveler, Death: not even the gods can defend a man, not even one they love, that day when fate takes hold and lays him out at last.

There are parts of Texas where a fly lives 10,000 years and a man can't die soon enough.

We're young men; we're not ready to die.

Man's love is of man's life a thing apart;Girls aren't like that.

Of course, the simple explanation of the fact is that marriage is the most important act of man's life in Europe or America, and that everything depends upon it.

For man to be able to live he must either not see the infinite, or have such an explanation of the meaning of life as will connect the finite with the infinite.

The possibility of killing one's self is a safety valve. Having it, man has no right to say life is unbearable.

Man is meant for happiness and this happiness is in him, in the satisfaction of the daily needs of his existence.

Man and the animals are merely a passage and channel for food, a tomb for other animals, a haven for the dead, giving life by the death of others, a coffer full of corruption.

Hard are life's early steps; and but that youth is buoyant, confident, and strong in hope, men would behold its threshold, and despair.

Why should man bother himself so much about salvation, unless he has a feeling of being doomed?

A wise man will live as much within his wit as within his income.