Quotes About Life

Again, I saw futility under the sun.

I saw that all who lived and walked under the sun followed this second one, the youth who succeeded the king.

For as many dreams bring futility, so do many words. Therefore, fear God.

He who loves money is never satisfied by money, and he who loves wealth is never satisfied by income. This too is futile.

There is a grievous evil I have seen under the sun: wealth hoarded to the harm of its owner,

As a man came from his motherís womb, so he will depart again, naked as he arrived. He takes nothing for his labor to carry in his hands.

This too is a grievous evil: Exactly as a man is born, so he will depart. What does he gain as he toils for the wind?

Moreover, all his days he eats in darkness, with much sorrow, sickness, and anger.

Here is what I have seen to be good and fitting: to eat and drink, and to find satisfaction in all the labor one does under the sun during the few days of life that God has given him—for this is his lot.

For a man seldom considers the days of his life, because God keeps him occupied with the joy of his heart.

There is another evil I have seen under the sun, and it weighs heavily upon mankind:

God gives a man riches, wealth, and honor, so that he lacks nothing his heart desires; but God does not allow him to enjoy them. Instead, a stranger will enjoy them. This is futile and a grievous affliction.

A man may father a hundred children and live for many years; yet no matter how long he lives, if he is unsatisfied with his prosperity and does not even receive a proper burial, I say that a stillborn child is better off than he.

For a stillborn child enters in futility and departs in darkness, and his name is shrouded in obscurity.

The child, though neither seeing the sun nor knowing anything, has more rest than that man,

even if he lives a thousand years twice over but fails to enjoy his prosperity. Do not all go to the same place?

All a manís labor is for his mouth, yet his appetite is never satisfied.

What advantage, then, has the wise man over the fool? What gain comes to the poor man who knows how to conduct himself before others?

Better what the eye can see than the wandering of desire. This too is futile and a pursuit of the wind.

For who knows what is good for a man during the few days in which he passes through his fleeting life like a shadow? Who can tell a man what will come after him under the sun?

A good name is better than fine perfume, and oneís day of death is better than his day of birth.

It is better to enter a house of mourning than a house of feasting, since death is the end of every man, and the living should take this to heart.

The heart of the wise is in the house of mourning, but the heart of fools is in the house of pleasure.

For like the crackling of thorns under the pot, so is the laughter of the fool. This too is futile.