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Quotes About Human life

If I correctly understand the sense of this succinct observation, our poet suggests here that human life is but a series of footnotes to a vast obscure unfinished masterpiece.
~ Vladimir Nabokov
That human life is but a first installment of the serial soul and that one's individual secret is not lost in the process of earthly dissolution, becomes something more than an optimistic conjecture, and even more than a matter of religious faith, when we remember that only commonsense rules immortality out.
~ Vladimir Nabokov
If I correctly understand the sense of this succinct observation, our poet suggests here that human life is but a series of footnotes to a vast obscure unfinished masterpiece. Line
~ Vladimir Nabokov
Dignity is as essential to human life as water, food, and oxygen. The stubborn retention of it, even in the face of extreme physical hardship, can hold a man's soul in his body long past the point at which the body should have surrendered it. The loss of it can carry a man off as surely as thirst, hunger, exposure, and asphyxiation, and with greater cruelty.
~ Laura Hillenbrand
Dignity is as essential to human life as water, food, and oxygen. The stubborn retention of it, even in the face of extreme physical hardship, can hold a man's soul in his body long past the point at which the body should have surrendered it. The loss of it can carry a man off as surely as thirst, hunger, exposure, and asphyxiation and with greater cruelty.
~ Laura Hillenbrand
Dignity is as essential to human life as water, food, and oxygen.
~ Laura Hillenbrand
It is a fundamental misperception," Fouts says to me, "to think human life has more value than any other life form.
~ Lauren Slater
In the moonlight which is always sad, as the light of the sun itself is -as the light called human life is- at its coming and going.
~ Charles Dickens
Ah me!' said he, 'what might have been is not what is!' With which commentary on human life, indicating an experience of it not exclusively his own, he made the best of his way to the end of his journey. …
~ Charles Dickens
In the moonlight which is always sad, as the light of the sun itself is—as the light called human life is—at its coming and its going.
~ Charles Dickens
What sunshine is to flowers, smiles are to humanity. Scattered along life's pathway, the good they do is inconceivable. A smile, accompanied by a kind word, has been known to reclaim a poor outcast and change the whole current of a human life.
~ The Family Herald, 1872
The world is the same in any generation, and human life is the same. Good and bad are the same. Kicking over pleasant helpful rules and running wild doesn't change results.
~ Grace Livingston Hill
The care of human life and happiness, and not their destruction, is the first and only object of good government
~ Thomas Jefferson
To me, respect for human life begins with making it more difficult to obtain an inanimate object that is designed to snuff it out.
~ Jean Hanff Korelitz
Listen to me: Life is not about principles; it`s about happiness.` `But if you don`t have any principles, and if you don`t have faith, you can`t be happy at all,` said Kadife. `That`s true. But in a brutal country like ours, where human life is cheap, it`s stupid to destroy yourself for the sake of your beliefs. Beliefs? High ideas? Only people in rich countries can enjoy such luxuries.` `Actually, it`s the other way round. In a poor country, people`s sole consolation comes from their beliefs.
~ Orhan Pamuk
in a brutal country like ours where human life is cheap, it's stupid to destroy yourself for the sake of your beliefs. Beliefs, high ideals--only people living in rich countries can enjoy such luxuries.' 'Actually, it's the other way round. In a poor country the only consolation people can have is the one that comes from their beliefs.
~ Orhan Pamuk
Ali u zemlji kao što je naša, zemlji u kojoj je ljudski život ovoliko jeftin, nepromišljeno je upropastiti se zbog onoga u što vjeruješ. Velika na?ela i vjerovanja nisu za nas: oni su za ljude iz bogatih zemalja.
~ Orhan Pamuk
But if you don't have any principles, and if you don't have faith, you can't be happy at all," said Kadife. "That's true. But in a brutal country like ours where human life is cheap, it's stupid to destroy yourself for the sake of your beliefs. Beliefs, high ideals—only people living in rich countries can enjoy such luxuries.
~ Orhan Pamuk
Studying life, eh! Let him take care, studying human life is looking at the stars. If you look too close, there is a dazzle.
~ Walt Whitman
Data can bear on policy issues, but many of our opinions about policy are grounded in premises about the nature of human life and human society that are beyond the reach of data.
~ Charles Murray
It has been said that in human life there are moments worth ages... in the climate of England there are, for the lover of Nature, days which are worth whole months, — I might say — even years.
~ William Wordsworth
El juego es una función elemental de la vida humana, hasta el punto de que no se puede pensar en absoluto la cultura humana sin un componente lúdico.
~ Hans-Georg Gadamer
Mulholland Drive is a two-lane, serpentine road that runs along the crest of the mountains and is named after the guy who built a two-hundred-mile aqueduct to drain water from the Northern California delta down to Los Angeles just so developers could get rich building homes in a place that otherwise is inhospitable to human life.
~ Lee Goldberg
Dream for a moment's space of care and strife, Wake, stare, and smile, and that is human Life.
~ Leigh Hunt