Quotes about Life
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
It matters not how a man dies, but how he lives.
— Samuel Johnson
Labor, if it were not necessary for existence, would be indispensable for the happiness of man.
— Samuel Johnson
One could construe the life of man as a great discourse in which the various people represent different parts of speech (the same might apply to states).
— Soren Kierkegaard
Whom man kills, him God restoreth to life.
— Victor Hugo
A man's life is always dealing with permanence, that is the most dangerous kind of irresponsibility is to think of your doings as temporary.
— Wendell Berry
any live man is better than any dead man but no live or dead man is very much better than any other live or dead man
— William Faulkner
Fill the cup, and fill the can: Have a rouse before the morn: Every moment dies a man, Every moment one is born.
— Alfred Lord Tennyson
Life is a task to be done. It is a fine thing to say defunctus est; it means that the man has done his task.
— Arthur Schopenhauer