Quotes About Life

You whisk them away in their sleep; they are like the new grass of the morning—

in the morning it springs up new, but by evening it fades and withers.

For all our days decline in Your fury; we finish our years with a sigh.

The length of our days is seventy years—or eighty if we are strong—yet their pride is but labor and sorrow, for they quickly pass, and we fly away.

So teach us to number our days, that we may present a heart of wisdom.

Satisfy us in the morning with Your loving devotion, that we may sing for joy and be glad all our days.

With long life I will satisfy him and show him My salvation.”

Let the sea resound, and all that fills it, the world, and all who dwell in it.

Let the rivers clap their hands, let the mountains sing together for joy

For my days vanish like smoke, and my bones burn like glowing embers.

He has broken my strength on the way; He has cut short my days.

I say: “O my God, do not take me in the midst of my days! Your years go on through all generations.

who redeems your life from the Pit and crowns you with loving devotion and compassion,

who satisfies you with good things, so that your youth is renewed like the eagleís.

As for man, his days are like grass—he blooms like a flower of the field;

He sends forth springs in the valleys; they flow between the mountains.

The birds of the air nest beside the springs; they sing among the branches.

wine that gladdens the heart of man, oil that makes his face to shine, and bread that sustains his heart.

where the birds build their nests; the stork makes her home in the cypresses.

You bring darkness, and it becomes night, when all the beasts of the forest prowl.

Man goes forth to his work and to his labor until evening.

How many are Your works, O LORD! In wisdom You have made them all; the earth is full of Your creatures.

Here is the sea, vast and wide, teeming with creatures beyond number, living things both great and small.

All creatures look to You to give them their food in due season.