Quotes about Life
In virtue of the name of Pontius Pilate being connected with Him, the life and passion of Jesus Christ is an event in the same world history in which our life also takes place.
— Karl Barth
Life is a problem; mortal man was made to solve the solemn problem right or wrong.
— John Quincy Adams
The man who will live above his present circumstances, is in great danger of soon living beneath them; or as the Italian proverb says, "The man that lives by hope, will die by despair.
— Joseph Addison
I used to worry about every little thing, trying to figure out every problem. Well, I realize now how foolish that was. I was no more in control of my life than the man on the moon.
— Joyce Meyer
Death is dreadful to the man whose all is extinguished with his life; but not to him whose glory never can die.
— Cicero
Immortality no longer interests the weary old man at all.
— Milan Kundera
The man who says he has exhausted life generally means that life has exhausted him.
— Oscar Wilde
Conversation is an art in which a man has all mankind for his competitors, for it is that which all are practising every day while they live.
— Ralph Waldo Emerson
Every man is an impossibility until he is born.
— Ralph Waldo Emerson
I have heard that death takes us away from ill things, not from good. I have heard that when we pronounce the name of man we pronounce the belief of immortality.
— Ralph Waldo Emerson
The life of man is the true romance, which when it is valiantly conduced, will yield the imagination a higher joy than any fiction.
— Ralph Waldo Emerson
Every man has some favorite topic of conversation, on which, by a feigned seriousness of attention, he may be drawn to expatiate without end.
— Samuel Johnson