Quotes About Life

As a cloud vanishes and is gone, so he who goes down to Sheol does not come back up.

He never returns to his house; his place remembers him no more.

so that I would prefer strangling and death over my life in this body.

I loathe my life! I would not live forever. Leave me alone, for my days are but a breath.

Why do You not pardon my transgression and take away my iniquity? For soon I will lie down in the dust; You will seek me, but I will be no more.”

For we were born yesterday and know nothing; our days on earth are but a shadow.

Does papyrus grow where there is no marsh? Do reeds flourish without water?

While the shoots are still uncut, they dry up quicker than grass.

His confidence is fragile; his security is in a spiderís web.

He is a well-watered plant in the sunshine, spreading its shoots over the garden.

Surely this is the joy of his way; yet others will spring from the dust.

Though I am blameless, I have no concern for myself; I despise my own life.

My days are swifter than a runner; they flee without seeing good.

They sweep by like boats of papyrus, like an eagle swooping down on its prey.

“I loathe my own life; I will express my complaint and speak in the bitterness of my soul.

Are Your days like those of a mortal, or Your years like those of a man,

You clothed me with skin and flesh, and knit me together with bones and sinews.

You have granted me life and loving devotion, and Your care has preserved my spirit.

If only I had never come to be, but had been carried from the womb to the grave.

Are my days not few? Withdraw from me, that I may have a little comfort,

before I go—never to return—to a land of darkness and gloom,

Your life will be brighter than noonday; its darkness will be like the morning.

“Truly then you are the people with whom wisdom itself will die!

The life of every living thing is in His hand, as well as the breath of all mankind.