Quotes About Life

You think there can be love without suffering? Having without losing?

After exploring the Life-Rock for a day ("If you've seen one rock, you've seen them all"—Oud), his narrative ends two days into the return journey back to Tharsis.

You may have heard of the one called Chute, on Mars, who wrote a novel called Waste, a metaphysical detective novel about the nature of life and waste that featured Smeg, the detective.

So go out and live real good and I promise you'll get beat up real bad. But, in a little while after you're dead, you'll be rotted away anyway. It's not gonna matter if you have a few scars. It will matter if you didn't live.

You imagine you're kin to the stars. But the same sap that inflames you, freezes and splits you. And the older you grow, the deader at heart.

The echo began in some indescribable way to undermine her hold on life. Coming at a moment when she chanced to be fatigued, it had managed to murmur, 'Pathos, piety, courage -- they exist, but are identical, and so is filth. Everything exists, nothing has value.'

This is not a tragedy. I am used up.

Est Sularis Oth Mithas' in the old tongue. 'My Honor is My Life.' 

We say—say 'Est Sularis Oth Mithas' in the old tongue. 'My Honor is My Life.

Nec vta nec fortna hominibus perpes est. (Publilius

Facis tua computat anns. (Juvenal

Humans do have authority over creation—but it is a delegated authority to care for animals as God would and not to destroy them. All life still belongs to the Creator of life, as it did the in the beginning.

In modern parlance we speak of the interconnectedness of all life, suggesting that one cannot really be healthy when the environment is sick.

Rabbits live close to death and when death comes closer than usual, thinking about survival leaves little room for anything else.

We pass and leave you lying. No need for rhetoric, for funeral music, for melancholy bugle-calls. No need for tears now, no need for regret. We took our risk with you; you died and we live. We take your noble gift, salute for the last time those lines of pitiable crosses, those solitary mounds, those unknown graves, and turn to live our lives out as we may.

Retired is being twice tired, I've thought First tired of working, Then tired of not.

He had a nice little house of his own, a wife whom he loved dearly, and two children, named Janie and Bill.

The living out of the New Testament cannot occur in a book; it can happen only in the life of the Christian community.

The community, in its corporate life, is called to embody an alternative order that stands as a sign of God's redemptive purposes in the world.

Death is inevitable. But the meaning people attach to death, its causes and aftermath, is culturally given. Without meaning, without culture making sense of things, life would be impossible.

Here is a test to find whether your mission on Earth is finished: If you're alive, it isn't.

Here is the test to find whether your mission on earth is finished. If you're alive, it isn't.

Here is a test to find whether your mission on earth is finished: If you are alive, it isn't.

Humanity is not a gift of nature, it is a spiritual achievement to be earned.