Quotes About Life

And did I not think then, What nonsense it is to suppose one man so different from another when all that life really boils down to is getting a decent cup of coffee and room to stretch out in?

I'm the first one in line to go watch "Spider-Man," but there's definitely something in me that makes me want to go to a movie and see something that makes me feel good about life.

A man who lives unrelated to other human beings dies. But a man who lives unrelated to himself also dies.

The power of love itself weakens and gradually becomes lost with age, like all the other energies of man.

The loveliest creations of men are persistently painful. What would be the description of happiness? Nothing, except what prepares and then what destroys it.

Marriage makes a man more vulnerable by doubling the expanse of sail exposed to the tempests of social life.

I knew a man who had been virtually drowned and then revived. He said that his death had not been painful.

The need to express one's self in writing springs from a maladjustment of life, or from an inner conflict which the adolescent (or the grown man) cannot resolve in action.

One novel that I think is an overriding influence in my life is 'All the King's Men,' the most beautiful book written in the U.S.

Man's natural life span, 75 to 90 years or so, has not increased. It is the number of us who manage to attain it that has increased.

I 've been married so much in my life that I never really had lovers, so it's been a fun time. Hopefully the men are enjoying it as well.

Eternity to a child offers goodness, and eternal life to a man is essentially corrupting because it involves a certain amount of vanity to embrace it.

I lived like a man who wanted to die but who had no courage to do it himself.

Let there be a heaven so that man may outlive his grasses.

I think life on the road really suits very egotistical men. It's set up for kings.

The tattoo has a profound meaning: the superficiality of modern man's existence.

Men and not measures are, no doubt, the very life of politics. But then it is not the fashion to say so in public places.

A man who is supposed to have caused a disturbance between two married people, in a certain rank of life, does generally receive a certain meed of admiration.

The grace and beauty of life will be clean gone when we all become useful men.

He was one of those men who, as in youth they are never very young, so in age are they never very old.

As a Christian, I begin to comprehend what life is all about through belief in a Creator, some of whose nature was revealed by a man born about 2000 years ago.

A man seeking publicity works with the noise of voice; A man working for humanity seeks the silence of rejoice in life.

A man's simplicity is the beauty of his humanity in life.

Literature exists so that where one man has lived finely ten thousand may afterward live finely