Quotes about Life
The misfortune of the wise is better than the prosperity of the fool.
— Epicurus
Death comes equally to us all, and makes us all equal when it comes.
— John Donne
We live on the brink of disaster because we do not know how to let life alone. We do not respect the living and fruitful contradictions and paradoxes of which true life is full.
— Thomas Merton
If God gave light and wisdom, the religion of Jesus was soon learned; but without God, a man might study all his life long, and make no proficiency.
— Adoniram Judson
Biblical wisdom means living a disciplined and prudent life in the fear of the Lord
— Kevin DeYoung
Because in the school of the Spirit man learns wisdom through humility, knowledge by forgetting, how to speak by silence, how to live by dying.
— Johannes Tauler
Seek ye counsel of the aged for their eyes have looked on the faces of the years and their ears have hardened to the voices of Life. Even if their counsel is displeasing to you, pay heed to them.
— Khalil Gibran
It's bad taste to be wise all the time, like being at a perpetual funeral.
— DH Lawrence
Take it moment by moment, and you will find that we are all, as I've said before, bugs in amber.
— Kurt Vonnegut Jr.
But if you want to identify me, ask me not where I live, or what I like to eat, or how I comb my hair, but ask me what I think I am living for.
— Thomas Merton
It's the impeded stream that sings.
— Wendell Berry
My goal as a theologian is to move beyond the acquisition of knowledge to its application in real life: in a word, I want to get wisdom.
— Kevin Vanhoozer