Quotes about Life
Men talk about Bible miracles because there is no miracle in their lives. Cease to gnaw that crust. There is ripe fruit over your head.
— Henry David Thoreau
They were pleasant spring days, in which the winter of man's discontent was thawing as well as the earth, and the life that had lain torpid began to stretch itself.
— Henry David Thoreau
We go to the grave of a friend saying, "A man is dead," but angels throng about him saying, "A man is born."
— Henry Ward Beecher
True faith will always show itself by its fruits . . . I suspect that, with rare exceptions, men die just as they have lived.
— JC Ryle
Take away God and religion, and men live to no purpose, without proposing any worthy end of life to themselves.
— John Tillotson
Whether religion be true or false, it must be necessarily granted to be the only wise principle and safe hypothesis for a man to live and die by.
— John Tillotson
Is not a patron one who looks with unconcern on a man struggling for life in the water, and, when he has reached ground, encumbers him with help?
— Samuel Johnson
Man lives more by affirmation than by bread.
— Victor Hugo
A man is the sum of his misfortunes.
— William Faulkner
Virtue is more to man than either water or fire. I have seen men die from treading on water and fire, but I have never seen a man die from treading the course of virtue.
— Confucius
Law intends indeed to do service to human life, but it is not able when men do not choose to accept her services; for it is only in those who are obedient to her that she displays her special virtue.
— Epictetus
Happy is he who still loves something he loved in the nursery: He has not been broken in two by time; he is not two men, but one, and he has saved not only his soul but his life.
— GK Chesterton