Quotes About Life

Men must endure Their going hence, even as their coming hither. Ripeness is all.

I hold the world but as the world, Gratiano; A stage where every man must play a part, And mine is a sad one.

A man really and practically looking onwards to an immortal life, on whatever grounds, exhibits to us the human soul in an enobled attitude.

The oldest man he seemed that ever wore grey hairs.

Men had been living a proud life, having felt no need for the spirit-until Christianity invented it.

Man is in his short sojourn on earth equal to God in His eternity.

In sum, thought and reflection have been rendered thoroughly pointless by the circumstances in which modern men and women live and act.

For wanderers, dreamers, and lovers, for lonely men and women who dare to ask of life everything good and beautiful. It is for those who are too gentle to live among wolves.

The ground is holy, being even as it came from the Creator. Keep it, guard it, care for it, for it keeps men, guards men, cares for men. Destroy it and man is destroyed.

So all a man could win in the conflict between plague and life was knowledge and memories.

Conscious man, to be sure, has at all times been keenly aware that life is an adventure, that life must, forever, be wrested from death.

Alas the Master; so he sinks in death. But whoso knows the mystery of man Sees life and death as curves of the same plan

Fill the cup, and fill the can: Have a rouse before the morn: Every moment dies a man, Every moment one is born.

I am an old man and I have seen things get revoked. Things which looked very irrevocable.

When I was younger I thought I'd meet the man of my dreams, get married and have a child, but it all went higgledy-piggledy. Never say never, though.

The vigorous are no better than the lazy during one half of life, for all men are alike when asleep.

A happy life is impos­si­ble; the best that a man can attain is a heroic life.

For the world is Hell, and men are on the one hand the tormented souls and on the other the devils in it.

Life is a task to be done. It is a fine thing to say defunctus est; it means that the man has done his task.

Nothing is worth anything to dead men.

In order to deal with reality successfully - to pursue and achieve the values which his life requires - man needs self-esteem; he needs to be confident of his efficacy and worth.

The purpose of man's life...is to become an abject zombie who serves a purpose he does not know, for reasons he is not to question.

The great question in life is the suffering we cause, and the most ingenious metaphysics do not justify the man who has broken the heart that loved him.

A dying man can do nothing easy.