Quotes about Life
a time to cast away stones and a time to gather stones together, a time to embrace and a time to refrain from embracing,
— Ecclesiastes 3:5
I have seen the burden that God has laid upon the sons of men to occupy them.
— Ecclesiastes 3:10
I know that there is nothing better for them than to rejoice and do good while they live,
— Ecclesiastes 3:12
For the fates of both men and beasts are the same: As one dies, so dies the other—they all have the same breath. Man has no advantage over the animals, since everything is futile.
— Ecclesiastes 3:19
All go to one place; all come from dust, and all return to dust.
— Ecclesiastes 3:20
So I admired the dead, who had already died, above the living, who are still alive.
— Ecclesiastes 4:2
But better than both is he who has not yet existed, who has not seen the evil that is done under the sun.
— Ecclesiastes 4:3
Again, I saw futility under the sun.
— Ecclesiastes 4:7
As a man came from his mother’s womb, so he will depart again, naked as he arrived. He takes nothing for his labor to carry in his hands.
— Ecclesiastes 5:15
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?
— Ecclesiastes 5:16
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.
— Ecclesiastes 5:18
For a man seldom considers the days of his life, because God keeps him occupied with the joy of his heart.
— Ecclesiastes 5:20