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Quotes About Life

This nation, this generation, in this hour has man's first chance to build a Great Society, a place where the meaning of man's life matches the marvels of man's labor.
~ Lyndon B. Johnson
If a man has not discovered anything so dying is not worth living
~ Martin Luther King, Jr.
Know, man hath all which Nature hath, but more, And in that more lie all his hopes of good.
~ Matthew Arnold
Death to a good man is his release from the imprisonment of this world, and his departure to the enjoyments of another world.
~ Matthew Henry
Men's weaknesses are often necessary to the purposes of life.
~ Maurice Maeterlinck
All that lives is striving for happiness; yet a thousand and one pains and fears attend upon every pleasure which man seeks through the ignorance of exclusiveness.
~ Meher Baba
Mortal man! You've wasted your time mostly with wrong and empty beliefs! And now you have started understanding that most important thing in life is existence!
~ Mehmet Murat Ildan
All men die. Only a few ever live.
~ Mel Gibson
Nearly all men die of their medicines, not of their diseases.
~ Moliere
A breeze passes in the night. When did it spring up? Whence does it come? Whither is it going? No man knows.
~ Pierre Teilhard de Chardin
A good man cannot be harmed either in life or in death, and his affairs are not neglected by the gods.
~ Plato
The gods confound the man who first found out How to distinguish hours! Confound him, too, Who in this place set up a sun-dial, To cut and hack my days so wretchedly Into small portions.
~ Plautus
To wanna be me is to go through not just the good but the bad. You wanna share my story identically? Man, you gonna take some lumps.
~ Queen Latifah
Oh yes!...The sweet summons of God to man. That's when He calls you up to His arms. And it's the most beautiful thing, a rebirth, a new life. But, just the same I'm in no rush to find out.
~ Oscar Hijuelos
If it is necessary to die in order to live like men, what harm in dying?
~ Rabindranath Tagore
How many times can a man go down and still be alive?
~ Ray Bradbury
Never see the face of man till you have seen his face who is our life, our all.
~ Robert E. Murray
A voice said, Look me in the stars And tell me truly, men of earth, If all the soul-and-body scars Were not too much to pay for birth.
~ Robert Frost
The Wheel of Time and the wheel of a man's life turn alike without pity or mercy.
~ Robert Jordan
A man's motive in the small actions of daily life, like resting a moment on his pitchfork in the sun and listening intently, may be the most important thing about that man.
~ Haniel Long
The man whom God wills to slay in the struggle of life - he first individualizes.
~ Henrik Ibsen
The life without men praise and regard as successful is but one kind. Why should we exaggerate any one kind at the expense of the others?
~ Henry David Thoreau
Man is on earth as in an egg.
~ Heraclitus
The gods are immortal men, and men are mortal gods.
~ Heraclitus