"There are loyal hearts, there are spirits brave, There are souls that are pure and true; Then give to the world the best you have, And the best will come back to you."

"For life is the mirror of king and slave, 'Tis just what we are and do; Then give to the world the best you have, And the best will come back to you."

"Alas, how scant the sheaves for all the trouble, The toil, the pain and the resolve sublime— A few full ears; the rest but weeds and stubble, And withered wild-flowers plucked before their time."

": It is a misery to be born, a pain to live, a trouble to die."

"Nasci miserum, vivere pœna, angustia mori."

"For life is tendency, and the essence of a tendency is to develop in the form of a sheaf, creating, by its very growth, divergent directions among which its impetus is divided."

"Life does not proceed by the association and addition of elements, but by dissociation and division."

"We are all but Fellow-Travelers, Along Life's weary way; If any man can play the pipes, In God's name, let him play."

"The day is short, the work is much."

"We sleep, but the loom of life never stops and the pattern which was weaving when the sun went down is weaving when it comes up to-morrow."

"Our lives are but our marches to the grave."

": To the solemn graves, near a lonely cemetery, my heart like a muffled drum is beating funeral marches."

"Loin des sépultures célebres Vers un cimitière isolé Mon cœur, comme un tambour voilé Va battant des marches funèbres."

"Life is a long lesson in humility."

"I live for those who love me, For those who know me true; For the heaven so blue above me, And the good that I can do."

"The World's a bubble, and the Life of Man less than a span: In his conception wretched, from the womb so to the tomb; Curst from his cradle, and brought up to years with cares and fears. Who then to frail mortality shall trust, But limns the water, or but writes in dust."

"I would live to study, and not study to live."

"As a mortal, thou must nourish each of two forebodings—that tomorrow's sunlight will be the last that thou shalt see; and that for fifty years thou wilt live out thy life in ample wealth."

"They live that they may eat, but he himself [Socrates] eats that he may live."

"This strange disease of modern life, With its sick hurry, its divided aims."

"Saw life steadily and saw it whole."

"With aching hands and bleeding feet We dig and heap, lay stone on stone; We bear the burden and the heat Of the long day, and wish 'twere done. Not till the hours of light return All we have built do we discern."

"Life, which all creatures love and strive to keep Wonderful, dear and pleasant unto each, Even to the meanest; yea, a boon to all Where pity is, for pity makes the world Soft to the weak and noble for the strong."

"We are the voices of the wandering wind, Which moan for rest and rest can never find; Lo! as the wind is so is mortal life, A moan, a sigh, a sob, a storm, a strife."

"There is a cropping-time in the races of men, as in the fruits of the field; and sometimes, if the stock be good, there springs up for a time a succession of splendid men; and then comes a period of barrenness."

"And by a prudent flight and cunning save A life which valour could not, from the grave. A better buckler I can soon regain, But who can get another life again?"

"Every man's life is a fairy-tale written by God's fingers."

"I know not if the dark or bright Shall be my lot; If that wherein my hopes delight Be best or not."

": Ofttimes the test of courage becomes rather to live than to die."

"Spesso è da forte, Più che il morire, il vivere."

"Row, row, row your boat, Gently down the stream. Merrily, merrily, merrily, merrily, Life is but a dream."

"Life is what happens to us while we are making other plans."

"Life is an echo. What you send out comes back. What you sow, you reap. What you give, you get. What you see in others, exists in you."

"Life cheap and death is free"

"Can life be counted upon to limit itself? No. It is the mindless striving of two to become infinity."

"Still seems it strange, that thou shouldst live forever? Is it less strange, that thou shouldst live at all? This is a miracle; and that no more."

"That life is long, which answers life's great end."

"While man is growing, life is in decrease, And cradles rock us nearer to the tomb: Our birth is nothing but our death begun."

"For what are men who grasp at praise sublime, But bubbles on the rapid stream of time, That rise, and fall, that swell, and are no more, Born, and forgot, ten thousand in an hour?"

"What is the meaning of life? That was all — a simple question; one that tended to close in on one with years. The great revelation had never come. The great revelation perhaps never did come. Instead there were little daily miracles, illuminations, matches struck unexpectedly in the dark; here was one."

"When life gives you lemons, don’t make lemonade. Make life take the lemons back! Get mad! I don’t want your damn lemons, what the hell am I supposed to do with these? Demand to see life’s manager! Make life rue the day it thought it could give Cave Johnson lemons! Do you know who I am? I’m the man who’s gonna burn your house down! With the lemons! I’m gonna get my engineers to invent a combustible lemon that burns your house down!"

"To believe in a God means to understand the question about the meaning of life. To believe in a God means to see that the facts of the world are not the end of the matter. To believe in God means to see that life has a meaning."

"The essence of life is change, he said, and the essence of eternal life is eternal change."

"You know life is cruel; life is never kind."

"Jigsaw: Congratulations. You are still alive. Most people are so ungrateful to be alive. But not you. Not anymore."

"I desire to have both heaven and hell ever in my eye, while I stand on this isthmus of life, between two boundless oceans."

"Lo! on a narrow neck of land, 'Twixt two unbounded seas, I stand. Secure, insensible."

"Living should be perpetual and universal benediction."

"Life is a game and true love is a trophy."

"Everyone now knows how to find the meaning of life within himself."