Quotes about Life

Bliss it was in that dawn to be alive But to be young was very heaven.

Our birth is but a sleep and a forgetting: The Soul that rises with us, our life's Star, Hath had elsewhere its setting, And cometh from afar: Not in entire forgetfulness, And not in utter nakedness, But trailing clouds of glory do we come

My heart leaps up when I behold A rainbow in the sky: So was it when my life began; So is it now I am a man;

I am ready to meet my Maker. Whether my Maker is prepared for the ordeal of meeting me is another matter.

Well, in war, you can only be killed once. But in politics, many times.

Come grow old with me. The best is yet to be.

The order of the commandments thus gives some insight into Israel's hierarchy of values. Roughly speaking, the order was God, family, life, sex, property. It is sobering, looking at that order, that in modern society (in its debased Western form at least) we have almost exactly reversed that order of values. Money and sex matter a lot more than human life, the family is scorned in theory and practice, and God is the last thing in most people's thinking, let alone priorities.

The harvest of old age is the recollection and abundance of blessing previously secured.

Every stage of human life, except the last, is marked out by certain and defined limits; old age alone has no precise and determinate boundary.

A fallen planet is no easy place to live. Ya, but heaven is.

But it seems that in the end all that matters is finding a way to survive the grief and trusting in the goodness of life beyond the pain.

Love wasn't all that touched their lives on this planet, but it made everything else endurable.