Quotes about Life
As you do not know the path of the wind, or how the bones are formed in a mother’s womb, so you cannot understand the work of God, the Maker of all things.
— Ecclesiastes 11:5
So if a man lives many years, let him rejoice in them all. But let him remember the days of darkness, for they will be many. Everything to come is futile.
— Ecclesiastes 11:8
Rejoice, O young man, while you are young, and let your heart be glad in the days of your youth. Walk in the ways of your heart and in the sight of your eyes, but know that for all these things God will bring you to judgment.
— Ecclesiastes 11:9
Remember your Creator in the days of your youth, before the days of adversity come and the years approach of which you will say, “I find no pleasure in them,”
— Ecclesiastes 12:1
before the light of the sun, moon, and stars is darkened, and the clouds return after the rain,
— Ecclesiastes 12:2
Remember Him before the silver cord is snapped and the golden bowl is crushed, before the pitcher is shattered at the spring and the wheel is broken at the well,
— Ecclesiastes 12:6
before the dust returns to the ground from which it came and the spirit returns to God who gave it.
— Ecclesiastes 12:7
“Futility of futilities,” says the Teacher. “Everything is futile!”
— Ecclesiastes 12:8
You are a garden spring, a well of fresh water flowing down from Lebanon.
— Song of Solomon 4:15
Put no more trust in man, who has only the breath in his nostrils. Of what account is he?
— Isaiah 2:22
At that time Tyre will be forgotten for seventy years—the span of a king’s life. But at the end of seventy years, it will happen to Tyre as in the song of the harlot:
— Isaiah 23:15
We were with child; we writhed in pain; but we gave birth to wind. We have given no salvation to the earth, nor brought any life into the world.
— Isaiah 26:18