Quotes About Life

Such is the blindness, nay the insanity of mankind, that some men are driven to death by the fear of it.

Chance makes a plaything of a man's life.

It is within the power of every man to live his life nobly, but of no man to live forever. Yet so many of us hope that life will go on forever, and so few aspire to live nobly.

Nobody loves life like an old man.

Many are the wonders of the world, and none so wonderful as man.

If men live decently it is because discipline saves their very lives for them.

Look how men live, always precariously balanced between good and bad fortune.

The man realized that what counted was not where a person lived, but how a person lived.

Any man can be 62, but it takes a bus to be 62A.

Each man has a mission in life, which is the result of all his infinite past Karma.

To every man who faces life with real desire to do his part in everything, I appeal for a study of the Bible.

Poetry is the attempt which man makes to render his existence harmonious.

The only influence that can really upset the injustice and iniquity of men is the power that breathes in the Christian tradition, renewing our participation in the Life that is the Light of men.

The man who lives in division is living in death. He cannot find himself because he is lost; he has ceased to be a reality. The person he believes himself to be is a bad dream.

Man was made for the highest activity, which is, in fact, his rest.

I have experienced a lot in my life - some good, some bad ­­- but all of those experiences make up the man I am today.

Age will flatten a man.

The real test of a man is not when he plays the role that he wants for himself but when he plays the role destiny has for him.

Great griefs exhaust. They discourage us with life. The man into whom they enter feels something taken from him. In youth, their visit is sad; later on, it is ominous.

When you take of a man's time, you've taken a part of his life.

The wise man seeks little joys, knowing that life is long and that his quota of great joys is distinctly limited.

Any human love a man gets he can make fill his life. It's like the grain of mustard-seed.

The men of old breathed clear down to their heels.

Man's words are mere breath, but the word of the Lord is spirit and life.