Quotes about Life
To the covetous man life is a nightmare, and God lets him wrestle with it as best he may.
— Henry Ward Beecher
The call of God does what the call of man cannot. It raises the dead.
— John Piper
Man was not breathed into the earth. Man came out of the earth.
— Joseph Campbell
Not knowing life, how can we know death? Why talk of spirits when you do not understand men?
— Confucius
We mortals, men and women, devour many a disappointment between breakfast and dinnertime.
— George Eliot
There must be some good in the life of battle, for so many good men have enjoyed being soldiers.
— GK Chesterton
The lot assigned to every man is suited to him, and suits him to itself.
— Marcus Aurelius
Man's life comes from God: it is his image and imprint, as sharing in his breath of life. God therefore is the sole Lord of this life: Man cannot do with it as he wills.
— Pope John Paul II
Certainty generally is illusion, and repose is not the destiny of man.
— Oliver Wendell Holmes, Jr.
Man's life on earth has only one end and purpose: to identify himself with his eternal Self and so to come to unitive knowledge of the Divine Ground.
— Aldous Huxley
Thou madest man, he knows not why, he thinks he was not made to die.
— Alfred Lord Tennyson
People need jobs, people need happy and successful lives; there should be marriage between one man and one woman, there should the value of person from conception until natural death.
— Alveda King