Quotes About Life

Art is the expression of a man's life, of his mode of being, of his relations with the universe, since it is, in fact, man's inarticulate answer to the universe's unspoken message.

Whom man kills, him God restoreth to life.

A man is a form of life that dreams in order to act and acts in order to dream.

A man's life is always dealing with permanence, that is the most dangerous kind of irresponsibility is to think of your doings as temporary.

It is usually more important how a man meets his fate than what it is.

A man who keeps a diary pays, Due toll to many tedious days; But life becomes eventful—then, His busy hand forgets the pen. Most books, indeed, are records less Of fulness than of emptiness.

Man's life is thought, And he, despite his terror, cannot cease Ravening through century after century, Ravening, raging, and uprooting that he may come Into the desolation of reality.

An aged man is but a paltry thing, a tattered coat upon a stick, unless soul clap its hands and sing, and louder sing for every tatter in its mortal dress.

Nor dread nor hope attend a dying animal; a man awaits his end dreading and hoping all.

That make the meadows green; and, poured round all, Old Ocean's gray and melancholy waste,-- Are but the solemn decorations all Of the great tomb of man.

Twixt devil and deep sea, man hacks his caves; Birth, death; one, many; what is true, and seems; Earth's vast hot iron, cold space's empty waves.

any live man is better than any dead man but no live or dead man is very much better than any other live or dead man

No doubt solitude is wholesome, but so is abstinence after a surfeit. The true life of man is in society.

The mind of man is like a clock that is always running down, and requires to be constantly wound up.

If that vital spark that we find in a grain of wheat can pass unchanged through countless deaths and resurrections, will the spirit of man be unable to pass from this body to another?

The true poetry of life: the poetry of the commonplace, of the ordinary man, of the plain, toil-worn woman, with their loves and their joys, their sorrows and their griefs.

That the God-man died for his people, and that His death is their life, is an idea which was in some degree foreshadowed by the older mystical sacrifices.

There's place and means for every man alive.

A good man's fortune may grow out at heels.

There's hope a great man's memory may outlive his life half a year.

Every man has business and desire, Such as it is.

I cannot tell what you and other men Think of this life; but, for my single self, I had as lief not be as live to be In awe of such a thing as I myself.

I care not, a man can die but once; we owe God and death.

These signs have marked me extraordinary, And all the courses of my life do show I am not in the roll of common men.