Quotes About Life

Circumstances rule men and not men rule circumstances.

Account no man happy till he dies.

I envy that man who passes through life safely, to the world and fame unknown.

All men know their children Mean more than life. If childless people sneer- Well, they've less sorrow. But what lonesome luck!

Life is short; this being so, who would pursue great things and not bear with what is at hand? These are the ways of madmen and men of evil counsel, at least in my judgment.

Let mortal man keep to his own Mortality, and not expect too much.

The life of men is painful.

People talk of the courage of convictions, but in actual life a man's duty to his family may make a rigid course seem a selfish indulgence of his own righteousness.

And Burns--though brief the race he ran, Though rough and dark the paths he trod, Lived--died--in form and soul a man, The image of his God.

The Magic in this garden has made me stand up and know I am going to live to be a man.

A young man not yet, an elder man not at all.

One of the fathers saith . . . that old men go to death, and death comes to young men.

It is the lot of man but once to die.

Even such is man, whose glory lendsHis life a blaze or two, and ends.

The happiness and unhappiness of men depends as much on their ethics as on fortune.

There are two things which Man cannot look at directly without flinching: the sun and death.

Most men go through life unchallenged, except at the final moment.

I'd always felt a man should marry later in life.

My father's religious life was not Biblically centered. He was a saintly man, whom I could never emulate, so I went into scholarship rather than into the kind of pastoral activity that he pursued.

Imagine for a moment that you were God. Not God as a man or woman, but God as the awareness of all life. To be that in physical form is to be an enlightened person.

Man would sooner have the Void for his purpose than be void of Purpose.

If we have our own why of life, we shall get along with almost any how. Man does not strive for pleasure; only the Englishman does.

I want to teach men the sense of their existence, which is the Superman, the lightning out of the dark cloud man.

Whoever does not know how to find the way to his ideal lives more frivolously and impudently than the man without an ideal.