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Quotes About Life

Living is the original art. As a young man I wanted to be a poet and I learned along the way that I already was a poet.
~ Mark Nepo
When a humorist ventures upon the grave concerns of life he must do his job better than another man or he works harm to his cause.
~ Mark Twain
When a man stands on the verge of seventy-two you know perfectly well that he never reached that place without knowing what this life is - heartbreaking bereavement.
~ Mark Twain
It is a solemn thought: dead, the noblest man's meat is inferior to pork.
~ Mark Twain
Every green herb, from the lotus to the darnel, is rich with delicate aids to help incurious man.
~ Martin Farquhar Tupper
Make sure to send a lazy man the angel of death.
~ Martin Luther
Every man carries the seed of his own death, and you will not be more than a man. You will have everything; you cannot have more.
~ Mary Stewart
Men may die like lambs and yet have their place forever with the goats.
~ Matthew Henry
One of my problems is to find the Ego, which has only one form and is immortal - to find it in animals and men, in the heaven and in the hell which together form the world in which we live.
~ Max Beckmann
Even a good man sees evil days, as long as his good deed has not ripened; but when his good deed has ripened, then does the good man see happy days.
~ Max Muller
Without birds, trees would be very lonely and men too!
~ Mehmet Murat Ildan
There is no difference between a death man and a man without love.
~ Mehmet Murat Ildan
Every man's life is a train made of straw which tries to move on a track made of fire! The very next stop is ashes and dust.
~ Mehmet Murat Ildan
Life is meaningless; man's biggest challenge is to make it meaningful!
~ Mehmet Murat Ildan
Man is a machine of remembrance; all we do is to remember things because life flies fast like a swallow; reality immediately disappears!
~ Mehmet Murat Ildan
Man is a thief, an impudent thief! He steals honey from bees, eggs from chickens, milk from cows and life from the God!
~ Mehmet Murat Ildan
Sweetness eliminates gravity and thus a man with a heavy burden of life starts feeling like floating in the air before sweetness.
~ Mehmet Murat Ildan
The edge of a precipice... That is the place where man sits throughout his life!
~ Mehmet Murat Ildan
The tragedy of man is that the happy moments of life behave like the birds of the forests: They appear and disappear suddenly!
~ Mehmet Murat Ildan
There are some moments in man's life that looking back might cause him fall into the precipice! At those moments, man must just look forward!
~ Mehmet Murat Ildan
To die for a cause is insanity; man's greatest cause is to live; his biggest purpose is to stay alive! Only fools die for a cause! Which cause can be superior to man's life?
~ Mehmet Murat Ildan
We are living in the World of Snails! Man is extremely slow! Whoever has a limited life, he has no right to be slow! Things must be done quickly! Slowness belongs to the immortals!
~ Mehmet Murat Ildan
Man is a marble piece; unlike Michelangelo's masterpieces, man is unconsciously carved and imperfectly shaped by the nature
~ Mehmet Murat Ildan
As long as death exists, men will continue to exist only as a shadow, not a real thing!
~ Mehmet Murat Ildan