Quotes About Life

Man lives in a world of surmise, of mystery, of uncertainties.

Doth not a man die even in his birth? The breaking of prison is death, and what is our birth, but a breaking of prison?

Men have conceived a twofold use of sleep; it is a refreshing of the body in this life, and a preparing of the soul for the next.

The world is a great volume, and man the index of that book; even in the body of man, you may turn to the whole world.

Life is the greatest art of all, and the master artist is the man who is living the beautiful life.

There is, in addition to a courage with which men die; a courage by which men must live.

Only fools think our attitude to our fellow men is a thing distinct from our attitude to 'lesser' life on this planet.

Whoever heard a man of fortune in England talk of the necessaries of life? . . . Whether we can afford it or no, we must have superfluities.

The sooner we recognize the fact that the mercy of the Almighty extends to every creature endowed with life, the better it will be for us as men and Christians.

To comprehend a man's life, it is necessary to know not merely what he does but also what he purposely leaves undone.

It can be said of him, when he departed he took a Man's life with him. No sounder piece of British manhood was put together in that eighteenth century of Time.

If ancient descent could confer nobility, the lower forms of life would possess it in a greater degree than man.

I am a happy man. I've had a good life.

If art were to redeem man, it could do so only by saving him from the seriousness of life and restoring him to an unexpected boyishness.

For men to tell how human life began Is hard; for who himself beginning knew?

Spirits that live throughout, Vital in every part, not as frail man, In entrails, heart or head, liver or reins, Cannot but by annihilating die.

The mere title of lawyer is sufficient to deprive a man of the public confidence. ... The most innocent and irreproachable life cannot guard a lawyer against the hatred of his fellow citizens.

The law against witches does not prove there be any; but it punishes the malice of those people that use such means to take away men's lives.

Some men ease themselves like setting hens into the nest of death.

A doctor is a man who writes prescriptions, till the patient either dies or is cured by nature.

The unlived life is not worth examining.

Everything is energy in motion.

All things in the world come from being. And being comes from non-being.

For if he like a madman lived; At least he like a wise one died.