Quotes about Life
The purpose of man's life...is to become an abject zombie who serves a purpose he does not know, for reasons he is not to question.
— Ayn Rand
When God becomes a Man and lives as a creature among His own creatures in Palestine, then indeed His life is one of supreme self-sacrifice and leads to Calvary.
— CS Lewis
To rise at six, to dine at ten, To sup at six, to sleep at ten, Makes a man live for ten times ten.
— Victor Hugo
To be awake is to be completely alive. I have never yet met a man who was quite awake.
— Henry David Thoreau
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