Quotes on Life

I would not choose to go where I would be afraid to die, nor could I bear to live without a good hope for hereafter.

Nor love thy life, nor hate; but what thou livest,_x000D_ _x000D_ Live well; how long, or short, permit to Heaven.

We live by Admiration, Hope, and Love;_x000D_ _x000D_ And, even as these are well and wisely fixed,_x000D_ _x000D_ In dignity of being we ascend.

I swear the earth shall surely be complete to him or her who shall be complete,_x000D_ _x000D_ The earth remains jagged and broken only to him or her who remains jagged and broken.

Life is rather a state of embryo, a preparation for life; a man is not completely born till he has passed through death.

Ah! somehow life is bigger after all_x000D_ _x000D_ Than any painted angel could we see_x000D_ _x000D_ The God that is within us!

Our life contains a thousand springs,_x000D_ _x000D_ And dies if one be gone._x000D_ _x000D_ Strange! that a harp of thousand strings_x000D_ _x000D_ Should keep in tune so long.

The hour which gives us life begins to take it away.

Make haste to live, and consider each day a life.

Tota vita nihil aliud quam ad mortem iter est._x000D_ _x000D_ The whole of life is nothing but a journey to death.

If you live according to nature, you never will be poor; if according to the world's caprice, you will never be rich.

It is a tedious thing to be always beginning life; they live badly who always begin to live.

The game of life looks cheerful when one carries a treasure safe in his heart.

The May of life blooms once and never again.

Wouldst thou wisely, and with pleasure,_x000D_ _x000D_ Pass the days of life's short measure,_x000D_ _x000D_ From the slow one counsel take,_x000D_ _x000D_ But a tool of him ne'er make;_x000D_ _x000D_ Ne'er as friend the swift one know,_x000D_ _x000D_ Nor the constant one as foe.

Life did not present its sunny side to thee.

Man cannot call the brimming instant back;_x000D_ _x000D_ Time's an affair of instants spun to days;_x000D_ _x000D_ If man must make an instant gold, or black,_x000D_ _x000D_ Let him, he may; but Time must go his ways._x000D_ _x000D_ Life may be duller for an instant's blaze._x000D_ _x000D_ Life's an affair of instants spun to years,_x000D_ _x000D_ Instants are only cause of all these tears.

Were I to live my life over again, I should live it just as I have done. I neither complain of the past, nor do I fear the future.

Nature has given man no better thing than shortness of life.

On the long dusty ribbon of the long city street,_x000D_ _x000D_ The pageant of life is passing me on multitudinous feet,_x000D_ _x000D_ With a word here of the hills, and a song there of the sea_x000D_ _x000D_ And-the great movement changes-the pageant passes me.

Our life must once have end; in vain we fly_x000D_ _x000D_ From following Fate; e'en now, e'en now, we die.