Quotes About Life

Anyone can stop a man's life, but no one his death a thousand doors open on to it.

As is a tale, so is life not how long it is, but how good it is, is what matters.

Life is a gift of the immortal Gods, but living well is the gift of philosophy.

No man enjoys the true taste of life, but he who is ready and willing to quit it.

The hour which gives us life begins to take it away.

The scene was horrid, yet it had the purity of a stanza from a ballad come to life, a ballad composed about tragic events in some border hell.

from that day forward she lived happily ever after. Except for the dying at the end. And the heartbreak in between.

The world has never yet seen a truly great and virtuous nation because in the degradation of woman the very fountains of life are poisoned at their source.

Therefore death is nothing to us, it matters not one jot, since the nature of the mind is understood to be mortal.

For thee the wonder-working earth puts forth sweet flowers.

O miserable minds of men! O blind hearts! In what darkness of life, in what great dangers ye spend this little span of years!

But if one should guide his life by true principles, man's greatest riches is to live on a little with contented mind; for a little is never lacking.

That fear of Acheron be sent packing which troubles the life of man from its deepest depths, suffuses all with the blackness of death, and leaves no delight clean and pure.

Thus the sum of things is ever being renewed, and mortals live dependent one upon another. Some nations increase, others diminish, and in a short space the generations of living creatures are changed and like runners pass on the torch of life.

From the heart of this fountain of delights wells up some bitter taste to choke them even amid the flowers.

When immortal Death has taken mortal life.

There is no place in nature for extinction.

What came from the earth returns back to the earth, and the spirit that was sent from heaven, again carried back, is received into the temple of heaven.

To none is life given in freehold; to all on lease.

Life is one long struggle in the dark.

Some nations increase, others diminish, and in a short space the generations of living creatures are changed and like runners pass on the torch of life.

For men know not what the nature of the soul is; whether it is engendered with us, or whether, on the contrary, it is infused into us at our birth, whether it perishes with us, dissolved by death, or whether it haunts the gloomy shades and vast pools of Orcus.

First, then, I say, that the mind, which we often call the intellect, in which is placed the conduct and government of life, is not less an integral part of man himself, than the hand, and foot, and eyes, are portions of the whole animal.

And many kinds of creatures must have died, Unable to plant out new sprouts of life. For whatever you see that lives and breathes and thrives Has been, from the very beginning, guarded, saved By it's trickery for its swiftness or brute strength.