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Quotes About Life

I am a man. And I am former baby and a future skeleton, and I am a distant future pile of dust.
~ Demetri Martin
Atheism in its negation of gods is at the same time the strongest affirmation of man, and through man, the eternal yea to life, purpose, and beauty.
~ Emma Goldman
Try to enjoy the great festival of life with other men!
~ Epictetus
Ain't no man can outrun his fate.
~ Esi Edugyan
The supreme empire is that of the Emperor who renounces all normal life, that of other men, and in who the care of supremacy doesn't weigh like a load of jewels.
~ Fernando Pessoa
The great interests of man: air and light, the joy of having a body, the voluptuousness of looking.
~ Francois de La Rochefoucauld
Man lives two lives, woe, were it otherwise! One is seized by death, the other one, his honor, remains.
~ Franz Grillparzer
.. But do you understand, I cry to him, do you understand that along with happiness, in the exact same way, in perfectly equal proportion, man also needs unhappiness
~ Fyodor Dostoevsky
The creative life was the only one for a serious man.
~ G. H. Hardy
Men peak at age nineteen and go downhill.
~ Garrison Keillor
I've been married 34 years. I have not been a perfect man. I have made mistakes in my life.
~ Gary Condit
For of fortunes sharp adversitee The worst kynde of infortune is this, A man to han ben in prosperitee, And it remembren, whan it passed is.
~ Geoffrey Chaucer
It's easier to replace a dead man than a good picture.
~ George Bernard Shaw
A married man is a man with a past, while a bachelor is a man with a future.
~ George Bernard Shaw
Man Proposeth, God disposeth.
~ George Herbert
A man is known to be mortal by two things, Sleep and Lust.
~ George Herbert
You're mine," she whispered. "Mine, as I'm yours. And if we die, we die. All men must die, Jon Snow. But first, we'll live.
~ George R. R. Martin
Books-bright windows in this life of ours, lit by the shining souls of men.
~ H. G. Wells
Men should be bewailed at their birth, and not at their death.
~ Charles de Montesquieu
My mother, Abra, had taught me that all people are made from the same dust. When our days here are gone, all men and women enter the same garden.
~ Alice Hoffman
I am convinced that the air we normally breathe is a kind of water, and men and women are a species of fish.
~ D. H. Lawrence
The Lives of Great Men are more oft' at variance with their profess'd Phillosophies than consistent with 'em.
~ Erica Jong
There, like the wind through woods in riot, Through him the gale of life blew high; The tree of man was never quiet: Then 'twas the Roman, now 'tis I.
~ A. E. Housman
But when the dust has drunk the blood of men, no resurrection comes for one who's dead.
~ Aeschylus