Quotes About Life

Great truths are portions of the soul of man; Great souls are portions of eternity.

The wisest and the best of men, nay, the wisest and best of their actions, may be rendered ridiculous by a person whose first object in life is a joke.

I see many more men who are feminist, or at least who have learned about life in the context of feminism.

THERE ARE SOME MEN who enter a woman's life and screw it up forever. Joseph Morelli did this to me—not forever, but periodically.

There is nothing men are so anxious to keep, and yet are so careless about, as life.

Most men employ the first part of life to make the other part miserable. [Fr., La plupart des hommes emploient la premiere part vie a rendre l'autre miserable.]

Life is a kind of sleep: old men sleep longest, nor begin to wake but when they are to die.

Discretion is the perfection of reason, and a guide to us in all the duties of life. It is only found in men of sound sense and understanding.

Old men grasp more at life than babies, and leave it with a much worse grace than young people. It is because all their labours having been for this life, they perceive at last their trouble lost.

I committed the first crime by creating men as mortals. After that, what more could you do, you the murderers? Come on; they already had death in them: at most you simply hastened things a little.

A man is involved in life, leaves his impress on it, and outside of that there is nothing.

To preserve a man alive in the midst of so many chances and hostilities, is as great a miracle as to create him.

It is no more effort for a man to be a saint than to be a sinner; it becomes a mere matter of habit.

Constantly to seek the purpose of life is one of the odd escapes of man. If he finds what he seeks it will not be worth that pebble on the path.

Could a man's heart, his soul, perish and yet leave him walking and talking as if alive?

God made man simple, but how he changed and got complicated is hard to say.

Is this the destiny of man? Is he only happy before he has acquired his reason or after he has lost it?

Wherever a man may happen to turn, whatever a man may undertake, he will always end up by returning to that path which nature has marked out for him.

What a day it is when we must envy the men in their graves.

Man, be he who he may, experiences a last piece of good fortune and a last day. [Ger., Der Mensch erfahrt, er sei auch wer er mag, Ein letztes Gluck und einen letzten Tag.]

To live as one likes is plebian the noble man aspires to order and law.

Let every man sing his own song in life.

I was a peaceful sedentary man, a lover of a quiet life, with no appetite for perils and commotions. But I was beginning to realise that I was very obstinate.

Youth, what man's age is like to be, doth show; We may our ends by our beginnings know.