Quotes about Life
...the measure of life is revealed in the quality of our relationships: with God, our families, our fellow men." - A Perfect Day by Richard Paul Evans
— Richard Paul Evans
In my short experience of human life, the outward obstacles, if there were any such, have not been living men, but the institutions of the dead.
— Henry David Thoreau
Some folks think that Christianity means a kind of insurance policy, and that it has little to do with this life, but that it is a very good thing when a man dies.
— Henry Ward Beecher
It is a man dying with his harness on that angels love to escort upward.
— Henry Ward Beecher
Morality is character and conduct such as is required by the circle or community in which the man's life happens to be placed. It shows how much good men require of us.
— Henry Ward Beecher
It is part and parcel of every man's life to develop beauty in himself. All perfect things have in them an element of beauty.
— Henry Ward Beecher
In childhood, death stirred me not; in middle age, it pursued me like a prowling bandit on the road; now, grown an old man, it boldly leads the way, and ushers me on.
— Herman Melville
I was a man of the earth, precisely as I had dreamed I would be.
— Jack Kerouac
Men have conceived a twofold use of sleep; it is a refreshing of the body in this life, and a preparing of the soul for the next.
— John Donne
For men to tell how human life began Is hard; for who himself beginning knew?
— John Milton
Spirits that live throughout, Vital in every part, not as frail man, In entrails, heart or head, liver or reins, Cannot but by annihilating die.
— John Milton
The mere title of lawyer is sufficient to deprive a man of the public confidence. ... The most innocent and irreproachable life cannot guard a lawyer against the hatred of his fellow citizens.
— John Quincy Adams