Quotes about Life

An honest assessment of our own capabilities, without conceit and without false modesty, is one of the first essentials of a useful life.

If all the other noble qualities of life were placed in the balance against it, loyalty would outweigh them all.

Time is dead as long as it is being clicked off by little wheels; only when the clock stops does time come to life.

Tell about the South. What's it like there. What do they do there. Why do they live there. Why do they live at all.

He found himself understanding the wearisomeness of this life, where every path was an improvisation and a considerable part of one's waking life was spent watching one's feet.

Life isn't fair, it's just fairer than death, that's all.

The art of life is to know how to enjoy a little and to endure very much.

Man lives by habits indeed, but what he lives for is thrill and excitements. ... From time immemorial war has been ... the supremely thrilling excitement.

The best argument I know for an immortal life is the existence of a man who deserves one.

There is an organic affinity between joyousness and tenderness, and their companionship in the saintly life need in no way occasion surprise.

Man lives for science as well as bread.

Human beings are born into this little span of life of which the best thing is its friendship and intimacies, and soon their places will know them no more, and yet they leave their friendships and intimacies with no cultivation, to grow as they will by the roadside, expecting them to "keep" by force of inertia.