Quotes About Life

The life of famous men was more glorious in antiquity; the life of obscure men is happier with the moderns.

Consider when thou art much vexed or grieved, that man's life is only a moment, and after a short time we are all laid out dead.

The lot assigned to every man is suited to him, and suits him to itself.

No man or woman can live another's fate

No sane man can be happy, for to him life is real, and he sees what a fearful thing it is.

No man alive can say, This shall not happen to me.

A man crawls into a tomb to die. A boy crawls in to live. You think that's chance?

Fairness, does not govern life and death. If it did, no good person would ever die young. ~ The blue man

Until he is forty, a man is too young to marry; and after he is forty, he is too old.

The man who has led a good life will find many allies.

We must know the measure of a man's desires before we can sound the depth of his regrets.

It seems to me that it will be very wearisome to be a man.

All the communions of a life-time are one communion.All the communions of all men now living are one communion.All the communions of all men, present, past and future, are one communion.

One race there is of men, one of gods, but from one mother we both draw our breath.

Amid the sufferings of life on earth, suicide is God's best gift to man.

Man's life comes from God: it is his image and imprint, as sharing in his breath of life. God therefore is the sole Lord of this life: Man cannot do with it as he wills.

Certainty generally is illusion, and repose is not the destiny of man.

A thing which fades With no outward sign - Is the flower Of the heart of man In this world!

It is a very poor consolation to be told that the man who has given one a bad dinner, or poor wine, is irreproachable in private life. Even the cardinal virtues cannot atone for half-cold entrees.

I'm a very simple man. You've got to have, like, a computer nowadays to turn the TV on and off... and the nightmare continues.

In A Midnight Carol Patricia Davis illuminates the dark and brilliant humanity of Charles Dickens -- the man who lived a rags-to-riches life more remarkable than any of his stories.

I glory in this world of men and women, torn with troubles, yet living on to love and laugh through it all.

They say great themes make great novels. but what these young writers don't understand is that there is no greater theme than men and women.

Liberty is precious. But so is life. It should not be so difficult for men and women of good will and good heart and sound mind to find the right balance between the two.