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Quotes About Life

The man who pursues happiness wisely will aim at the possession of a number of subsidiary interests in addition to those central ones upon which his life is built.
~ Bertrand Russell
Biggest affirmative argument I know in favor of 'If a man die, shall he live again?' is just the way you feel inside you that nothin' can stop you from livin' on.
~ Bess Streeter Aldrich
Married men live longer. Yes. And an indoor cat also lives longer. It's a furball with a broken spirit, that can only look out on a world it can never enjoy. But it does technically live longer.
~ Bill Maher
Men tell us we are womanly when we love but once. Men! They have told us a lot of things to make life comfortable for themselves.
~ Blanche Willis Howard
When God becomes a Man and lives as a creature among His own creatures in Palestine, then indeed His life is one of supreme self-sacrifice and leads to Calvary.
~ C. S. Lewis
If a man knew how to live he would never die.
~ Robert Penn Warren
The great lesson of biography is to show what man can be and do at his best. A noble life put fairly on record acts like an inspiration to others.
~ Samuel Smiles
Men. You can't live with them, you can't shoot them.
~ Sarah Addison Allen
I think that men of my generation - not me in particular - are among the most fortunate men in the universe.
~ Sergio Leone
There is an ancient saying, famous among men, that thou shouldst not judge fully of a man's life before he dieth, whether it should be called blest or wretched.
~ Sophocles
You cannot know a man's life before the man has died, then only can you call it good or bad.
~ Sophocles
There are three things a man must do before his life is done; Write two lines in APL, And make the buggers run.
~ Stan Kelly-Bootle
Why should men love the Church? Why should they love her laws? She tells them of Life and Death, and of all that they would forget.
~ T. S. Eliot
Not to be content with Life is the unsatisfactory state of those which destroy themselves; who being afraid to live, run blindly upon their own Death, which no Man fears by Experience.
~ Thomas Browne
Of all God's creatures, Man alone is poor.
~ Thomas Carlyle
Indifference to fate which, though it often makes a villain of a man, is the basis of his sublimity when it does not.
~ Thomas Hardy
men don't make different mistakes at different periods of their lives. They make the same mistake over and over again and they pay a bigger and bigger price for it.
~ Vicki Baum
To rise at six, to dine at ten, To sup at six, to sleep at ten, Makes a man live for ten times ten.
~ Victor Hugo
What is said about men often has as much influence upon their lives, and especially upon their destinies, as what they do.
~ Victor Hugo
These tasks, and therefore the meaning of life, differ from man to man, and from moment to moment. Thus it is impossible to define the meaning in life in a general way.
~ Viktor E. Frankl
Now the answer ... is plain, but it is so unpalatable that most men will not face it. There is no reason for life and life has no meaning.
~ W. Somerset Maugham
I have an idea that the only thing which makes it possible to regard this world we live in without disgust is the beauty which now and then men create out of the chaos.
~ W. Somerset Maugham
The child's toys and the old man's reasons are the fruits of two seasons.
~ William Blake
Happy the man who sees a God employed in all the good and ills that checker life.
~ William Cowper