Quotes About Life

For some men the power to destroy life becomes the equivalent to the female power to create life.

Nature includes all of the universe and man is not only a part of nature, he is in it up to his neck.

London is like the grave in one respect -- any man can make himself at home there; and whenever a man finds himself homeless elsewhere, he had better either die or go to London.

The moment when a man's head drops off is seldom or never, I am inclined to think, precisely the most agreeable of his life.

The soul of man createth its own destiny.

You are right that a man needs light like he needs bread, but a man needs a little darkness, too, if only so that he can sleep, and dream.

A woman shaking in fear from demons in her mind, and the old man who loves her more deeply than life itself, crying softly in the corner, his face in his hands.

No drowning man can know which drop of water his last breath did stop.

Well, for me as a heterosexual man, the woman is still the mystery of life.

My first novel, 'Man Walks Into a Room,' is about a man who's lost his memory and has to start a second life. On one level, it's about how we create a coherent sense of self.

I'm not making films for middle aged journalists, who are mostly men. I make films that hopefully entertain people, where they can learn something about life.

You bring the color and the life. It's a lucky man who is offered that color and life, and a wise one who values it.

A man who has spent most of his adult life trying out a series of patent medicines is always an optimist.

To live is to fight, to preserve life is to fight everything that man stands for.

Each man, therefore, is the entire world, bearing within his genes a memory of all mankind. Or as Leibniz put it: 'Every living substance is a perpetual living mirror of the universe'

Wounds are an essential part of life, and until you are wounded in some way, you cannot become a man.

What I'm trying to do [in Winter Journal] is to tell the story of a man's life from birth, but there are different versions of him, four different versions.

It happens to everybody, horses, dogs, men. Nobody gets out of life alive.

What's to be the reason for becoming man and wife, is it love that brings you here, or love that gives you life?

To each of man's ages the Lord gives its own anxieties.

Everything for me is sacred, beginning with earth, but also going to things made by man.

In life there are no Unities, but three Incomprehensibles: Destiny, Man, and Woman.

Man, who wert once a despot and a slave, A dupe and a deceiver! a decay, A traveller from the cradle to the grave Through the dim night of this immortal day.

A woman has a responsibility and a privilege that a man doesnt have of given birth to another human being.