Quotes about Life
If a man has not discovered anything so dying is not worth living
— Martin Luther King, Jr.
A breeze passes in the night. When did it spring up? Whence does it come? Whither is it going? No man knows.
— Pierre Teilhard de Chardin
I am a man who, from his youth upwards, has been filled with a profound conviction that the easiest way of life is the best.
— Herman Melville
None but a good man is really a living man, and the more good any man does, the more he really lives. All the rest is death, or belongs to it.
— Herman Melville
Yet perhaps no sacrifice is wholly useless which proves there are men who prefer honour to life.
— James G. Frazer
Where soil is, men grow, Whether to weeds or flowers.
— John Keats
Only He who made man makes man happy.
— St. Augustine
To every man who faces life with real desire to do his part in everything, I appeal for a study of the Bible.
— Theodore Roosevelt
The only influence that can really upset the injustice and iniquity of men is the power that breathes in the Christian tradition, renewing our participation in the Life that is the Light of men.
— Thomas Merton
The man who lives in division is living in death. He cannot find himself because he is lost; he has ceased to be a reality. The person he believes himself to be is a bad dream.
— Thomas Merton
Man was made for the highest activity, which is, in fact, his rest.
— Thomas Merton
Great griefs exhaust. They discourage us with life. The man into whom they enter feels something taken from him. In youth, their visit is sad; later on, it is ominous.
— Victor Hugo