Quotes about Life

Totally without hope one cannot live. To live without hope is to cease to live. Hell is hopelessness. It is no accident that above the entrance to Dante's hell is the inscription: Leave behind all hope, you who enter here.

the irreconcilable antitheses of death and life, the world and the kingdom of heaven, and then again to see them both as one, before he can evaluate the concealed power of this unique spirit. For 'this was a man and to be a man means to be a fighter'.

Of Myself and of Death' (pp. 287—300).

What lies between these two ends, these 'last things', is the world, our world, the comprehensible world which has been given us.

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.

Life is a problem; mortal man was made to solve the solemn problem right or wrong.

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.

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.

Death is dreadful to the man whose all is extinguished with his life; but not to him whose glory never can die.

Immortality no longer interests the weary old man at all.

The man who says he has exhausted life generally means that life has exhausted him.

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.