Quotes
Quotes to inspire and reflect
Death is what men want when the anguish of living / is more than they can bear.
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It is better that we live ever so / Miserably than die in glory.
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I think that the dying pray at the last not “please,” but “thank you,” as a guest thanks his host at the door.
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All our life is but a going out to the place of execution, to death.
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What is called a reason for living is also an excellent reason for dying.
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If a man know not life which he hath seen, how shall he know death, which he hath not seen?
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The golden years of my life are slipping by on stealthy feet at nightfall; there is a footprint in the dark, a bell strikes twelve, and the flying year is gone.
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Thus my life is a flight and I lose everything and everything belongs to oblivion.
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For the complete life, the perfect pattern includes old age as well as youth and maturity.
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As I get older, my childhood self becomes more accessible to me, but selectively, in images as stylized and suspect as moments remembered from a novel read years ago.
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There are but three events which concern men: birth, life, and death. They are unconscious of their birth, they suffer when they die, and they neglect to live.
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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.
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Life is not governed by will or intention. Life is a question of nerves, and fibers, and slowly built-up cells in which thought hides itself and passion has its dreams.
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Whoever is not in his coffin and the dark grave let him know he has enough.
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Life has a way of overgrowing its achievements as well as its ruins.
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Life is the saddest thing there is, next to death.
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What is a great life if not a youthful idea executed by the man of mature years?
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Children, who play life, discern its true law and relations more clearly than men, who fail to live it worthily, but who think that they are wiser by experience, that is, by failure.
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Life is given to us, we earn it by giving it.
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Life, like a child, laughs, shaking its rattle of death as it runs.
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Life is a tragedy wherein we sit as spectators for a while and then act our part in it.
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Everyday life is a stimulating mixture of order and haphazardly. The sun rises and sets on schedule but the wind bloweth where it listeth.
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As wise women and men in every culture tell us: The art of life is not controlling what happens to us, but using what happens to us.
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You cannot know a man’s life before the man / has died, then only can you call it good or bad.
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What most counts is not to live, but to live aright.
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The web of our life is of a mingled yarn, good and ill together.
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It is more fitting for a man to laugh at life than to lament over it.
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Nothing is so false as human life, nothing so treacherous. God knows no one would have accepted it as a gift, if it had not been given without our knowledge.
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Life is a task to be done. It is a fine thing to say defunctus est; it means that the man has done his task.
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I he scenes of our life are like pictures done in rough mosaic. Looked at close, they produce no effect. There is nothing beautiful to be found in them, unless you stand some distance off.
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It is the acme of life to understand life.
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It is only in the microscope that our life looks so big. It is an indivisible point, drawn out and magnified by the powerful lenses of Time and Space.
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Real life is, to most men, a long second-best, a perpetual compromise between the ideal and the possible.
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From the first moment of life, men ought to begin learning to deserve to live.
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Fate loves to invent patterns and designs. Its difficulty lies in complexity. But life itself is difficult
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Life is little more than a loan shark: it exacts a very high rate of interest for the few pleasures it concedes.
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Every true man, sir, who is a little above the level of the beasts and plants does not live for the sake of living, without knowing how to live; but he lives so as to give a meaning and a value of his own to life.
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We never live, but we hope to live; and, as we are always preparing to be happy, it is inevitable we should never be so.
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Between us and heaven or hell there is only life, which is the frailest thing in the world.
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In order to master the unruly torrent of life the learned man meditates, the poet quivers, and the political hero erects the fortress of his will.
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Life is the external text, the burning bush by the edge of the path from which God speaks.
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Life is not having been told that the man has just waxed the floor.
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No man is quick enough to enjoy life.
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The life force is vigorous. The delight that accompanies it counter-balances all the pains and hardships that confront men. It makes life worth living.
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Life is a pill which none of us can bear to swallow without gilding.
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I do not cut my life up into days but my days into lives, each day, each hour, an entire life.
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The best way to prepare for life is to begin to live.
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The art of life is to know how to enjoy a little and to endure much.
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