Quotes about Life

So, throughout life, our worst weaknesses and meannesses are usually committed for the sake of the people whom we most despise.

No space of regret can make amends for one life's opportunity misused

Life is made of so many partings welded together

The sun,--the bright sun, that brings back, not light alone, but new life, and hope, and freshness to man--burst upon the crowded city in clear and radiant glory. Through costly-coloured glass and paper-mended window, through cathedral dome and rotten crevice, it shed its equal ray.

You are too young to know how the world changes everyday,' said Mrs Creakle, 'and how the people in it pass away. But we all have to learn it, David; some of us when we are young, some of us when we are old, some of us at all times in our lives.

The universe makes rather an indifferent parent, I'm afraid.

And O there are days in this life, worth life and worth death. And O what a bright old song it is, that O 'tis love, 'tis love, 'tis love that makes the world go round!

Are you thankful for not being young?' 'Yes, sir. If I was young, it would all have to be gone through again, and the end would be a weary way off, don't you see?...

I will live in the past, the present, and the future. The spirits of all three shall strive within me.

When you see your own bright beauty springing up anew at your feet, think now and then that there is a man who would give his life, to keep a life you love beside you.

Can I view thee panting, lying On thy stomach, without sighing; Can I unmoved see thee dying On a log Expiring frog!

He has got his discharge, by G-! said the man. He had. But he had grown so like death in life, that they knew not when he died.