Quotes related to Ecclesiastes 3:1
And sing to those that hold the vital shears; And turn the adamantine spindle round, On which the fate of gods and men is wound.
— John Milton
If a man has not discovered anything so dying is not worth living
— Martin Luther King, Jr.
As a man passes into middle life, or beyond it, autumn, it has been said, whispers more to his soul than any other season of the natural year. It is not difficult to see why this should be.
— Henry Parry Liddon
The man who sticks it out against his fate shows spirit, but the spirit of a fool.
— Euripides
For the absurd man, it is not a matter of explaining and solving, but of experiencing and describing. Everything begins with lucid indifference.
— Albert Camus
Old men must die, or the world would grow mouldy, would only breed the past again.
— Alfred Lord Tennyson
It's over, and can't be helped, and that's one consolation, as they always say in Turkey, when they cut the wrong man's head off.
— Charles Dickens
Life is short; this being so, who would pursue great things and not bear with what is at hand? These are the ways of madmen and men of evil counsel, at least in my judgment.
— Euripides
King Solomon, who supposedly was the wisest of all men, described his youth as his winter and his advanced years as his summer. We can be older than we used to be yet feel much younger than we are.
— Marianne Williamson
The strong man holds in a living blend strongly marked opposites.
— Martin Luther King, Jr.
To each of man's ages the Lord gives its own anxieties.
— Paulo Coelho
Things have their laws as well as men, and things refuse to be trifled with.
— Ralph Waldo Emerson