Quotes about Life
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
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