Quotes About Life

High fortune, this in man's eye is god and more than god is this.

When the black and mortal blood of man has fallen to the ground ... who then can sing spells to call it back again?

Not very good with death? Father was a military man, and military men lived with death; lived for death; lived on death. To a professional soldier, oddly enough, death was life.

There are always reasons for murdering a man. But there is no justification for his existence.

He seemed so certain about everything, didn't he? And yet none of his certainties was worth one hair of a woman's head. He wasn't even sure he was alive, because he was living like a dead man.

I continue to believe that this world has no ultimate meaning. But I know that something in it has a meaning and that is man, because he is the only creature to insist on having one

Death means nothing to men like me. It's the event that proves them right.

How had I not seen that there was nothing more important than an execution, and that when you come right down to it, it was the only thing a man could truly be interested in?

The absurd depends as much on man as on the world. For the moment, it is all that links them together.

Without the sense of fellowship with men of like mind, of preoccupation with the objective, the eternally unattainable in the field of art and scientific research, life would have seemed to me empty.

To the truly ethical man, all of life is sacred, including forms of life that from the human point of view may seem lower than ours.

We are united with all life that is in nature. Man can no longer live his life for himself alone.

In regard to man's final end, all the higher religions are in complete agreement. The purpose of human life is the discovery of Truth, the unitive knowledge of the Godhead.

In life, man proposes, God disposes.

The lot of man - to suffer and to die.

God orders a man to do all he can to save his life.

In this world, all--men, women, and kings--must live for the present. We can only live for the future for God

What is a great life if not a youthful idea executed by a man of mature years.

History has become more important than ever because of the to unprecedented ability of the historical sciences to take in man's life on earth as a whole.

Man is man, and master of his fate.

Nor at all can tell Whether I mean this day to end myself, Or lend an ear to Plato where he says, That men like soldiers may not quit the post Allotted by the Gods.

Of happy men that have the power to die, And grassy barrows of the happier dead.

On the mountains of memory by the world's wellsprings, in all man's eyes, where the light of life of him is on all past things, death only dies.

Life means opportunity, and the thing men call death is the last wonderful, beautiful adventure.