Quotes About Life

Still we live meanly like ants, though the fable tells us we were long ago changed into men.

When one man has reduced a fact of the imagination to be a fact to his understanding, I foresee that all men will at length establish their lives on that basis.

So soon did we, wayfarers, begin to learn that man's life is rounded with the same few facts, the same simple relations everywhere, and it is vain to travel to find it new.

Inexpressibly beautiful appears the recognition by man of the least natural fact, and the allying his life to it.

No two men are just alike. Every new life is a new thing under the sun; there has never been anything like it before, and never will be again.

Do not be duped by little duties. Do not be a chore man all your days.

Poverty is such a relative thing; but no man is really poor till life becomes a desert island that gives him neither food nor shelter nor hope.

A conservative young man has wound up his life before it was unreeled. We expect old men to be conservative but when a nation's young men are so, its funeral bell is already rung.

Some folks think that Christianity means a kind of insurance policy, and that it has little to do with this life, but that it is a very good thing when a man dies.

Men of dissolute lives have little incentive to look forward to the hopes and glories of immortality. A due conception of these would be incompatible with such a life.

Life is full of amusement to an amusing man.

Religion is only another word for the right use of a man's whole self, instead of a wrong use of himself.

It is a man dying with his harness on that angels love to escort upward.

It is part and parcel of every man's life to develop beauty in himself. All perfect things have in them an element of beauty.

In childhood, death stirred me not; in middle age, it pursued me like a prowling bandit on the road; now, grown an old man, it boldly leads the way, and ushers me on.

I believe that the struggle against death, the unconditional and self-willed determination to live, is the mode of power behind the lives and activities of all outstanding men.

Many exceedingly rich men are unhappy, but many middling circumstances are fortunate.

Of old when folk lay sick and sorely tried The doctors gave them physic, and they died. But here's a happier age: for now we know Both how to make men sick and keep them so.

The lot of man-to suffer and die.

Oall the creatures that creep and breathe on earth, there is none more wretched than man.

Like leaves on trees the race of man is found,- Now green in youth, now withering on the ground; Another race the following spring supplies: They fall successive, and successive rise.

We men are wretched things.

And not a man appears to tell their fate.

As leaves on the trees, such is the life of man.