Quotes About Life

"To think the way you do," he said smiling, "you have to be a man who lives either on a tremendous despair, or on a tremendous hope." "On both, perhaps."

Art, at least, teaches us that man cannot be explained by history alone and that he also finds a reason for his existence in the order of nature.

Man can find meaning in life only through devoting himself to society.

Man's life on earth has only one end and purpose: to identify himself with his eternal Self and so to come to unitive knowledge of the Divine Ground.

Call no day happy 'til it is done; call no man happy til he is dead.

Thou madest man, he knows not why, he thinks he was not made to die.

At the door of life by the gate of breath, There are worse things waiting for men than death.

People need jobs, people need happy and successful lives; there should be marriage between one man and one woman, there should the value of person from conception until natural death.

The year I began to say vahz instead of vase, a man I barely knew nearly accidentally killed me.

If man is not ready to risk his life, where is his dignity?

A man spends the first half of his life learning habits that shorten the other half.

The man has a theory. The woman has hipbones. Here comes Death.

A good man may make the best even of poverty and disease, and the other ills of life; but he can only attain happiness under the opposite conditions

No one ever mentioned it, but thousands of men welcomed World War II as a way to escape their humdrum lives rather than a chance to fight for God and country.

Every man has his destiny. But who needs to go to a fortune-teller to find it? Do I go to a chef to find out if I'm hungry?

A man is not a bird, to come and go with the springtime.

Art begins when a man wishes to immortalize the most vivid moment he has ever lived.

The making of one's life into art is, after all, the first duty and privilege of every man.

What good in a man's life if it's not lived free eh?

It's one thing for a man not to know, not to have learned; it's another not to be able to live by what one does know.

As long as a man stays alive he can't tell what chances will pop up next. But a dead man signs no checks.

I don't have no story. Everybody wants this Hollywood story, but the world don't owe you nothing, man. It's what you owe the world.

Worry is a form of fear, and all forms of fear produce fatigue. A man who has learned not to feel fear will find the fatigue of daily life enormously diminished.

To little men, gods send little things.