Quotes About Life

Life's not fair but not always to your disadvantage.

The world is very different now. For man holds in his mortal hands the power to abolish all forms of human poverty and all forms of human life. (20 January 1961).

Freedom is being allowed to think your own thoughts and live your own life.

In the final analysis, our most basic common link is that we all inhabit this small planet. We all breathe the same air. We all cherish our children's future. And we are all mortal.

All of us have the same percentage of salt in our blood in our sweat and in our tears and when we go back to the sea we go back whense we came

What a testimony Daniel had that even his enemies knew he would be faithful to God although it would cost him his life. Baldwin

Life is a wonderful, precious thing – a tiny realm of order in the vast chaos of the unliving universe around – and all living things need protection. A cell has its cytoplasm. Fish have their scales. Humans have skin. Bark is a tree's.

People need change now, today. Even one more child dying from hunger, one more life blighted by poverty, is one too many.

Every man is a mystery to himself. And then we die, unsolved.

Only three things are real: God, human folly, and laughter. Since we can do nothing with the first two, we must do what we can with the third.

For man holds in his mortal hands the power to abolish all forms of human life

I am a mushroom On whom the dew of heaven drops now and then.

Alive. Alive in the way that death is alive.

The craving to risk death is our last great perversion. We come from night, we go into night. Why live in night?

The moon hung over the planet Earth, a dead thing over a dying thing.

Do you know that every great thing in the history of art and every beautiful thing in life is actually what you call nasty or has been caused by feelings that you would call nasty? By passion, by love, by hatred, by truth. Do you know that?

Think. In a minute from now you could be saying, I risked death. I threw for life, and I won life. It is a very wonderful feeling. To have survived.

But forgetting's not something you do, it happens to you.

Death is not in the nature of things; it is the nature of things. But what dies is the form. The matter is immortal.

In spite of her superficial independence, her fundamental need was to cling. All her life was an attempt to disprove it; and so proved it. She was like a sea anemone -- had only to be touched once to adhere to what touched her.

if you knew the mess my life was in … the waste of it … the uselessness of it. I have no moral purpose, no real sense of duty to anything. It seems only a few months ago that I was twenty-one – full of hopes … all disappointed.

Maurice once said to me- when I had asked him a question rather like yours - he said, An answer is always a form of death There was something else in her face then. It was not implaceable; but in some way impermeable. 'I think questions are a form of life

Hazard has conditioned us to live in hazard. All our pleasures are dependant upon it. Even though I arrange for a pleasure; and look forward to it, my eventual enjoyment of it is still a matter of hazard. Wherever time passes, there is hazard. You may die before you turn the next page.

You have shared your secret. I think you will find it to be an unburdening in many other ways. You have very considerable natural advantages. You have nothing to fear from life. A day will come when these recent unhappy years may seem no more than that cloud-stain over there upon Chesil Bank. You shall stand in sunlight—and smile at your own past sorrows.