Life

"Life is an incurable disease."

"Men deal with life as children with their play, Who first misuse, then cast their toys away."

"Let's learn to live, for we must die alone."

"Shall he who soars, inspired by loftier views, Life's little cares and little pains refuse? Shall he not rather feel a double share Of mortal woe, when doubly arm'd to bear?"

"Life's bloomy flush was lost."

"Life is not measured by the time we live."

"Chaque instant de la vie est un pas vers la mort."

": Every moment of life is a step toward the grave."

"Non ò necessario Vivere, si scolpire olte quel termine Nostro nome: quæsto è necessario."

": It is not necessary to live, But to carve our names beyond that point, This is necessary."

"Nel mezzo del cammin di nostra vita Mi ritrovai per una selva oscura, Che la diritta via era smarrita."

": In the midway of this our mortal life, I found me in a gloomy wood, astray, Gone from the path direct."

"Questo misero modo Tengon l'anime triste di coloro Che visser senza infamia e senza lodo."

": This sorrow weighs upon the melancholy souls of those who lived without infamy or praise."

"… There are two distinct classes of people in the world; those that feel that they themselves are in a body; and those that feel that they themselves are a body, with something working it. I feel like the contents of a bottle, and am curious to know what will happen when the bottle is uncorked. Perhaps I shall be mousseux—who knows? Now I know that many people feel like a strong moving engine, self-stoking, and often so anxious to keep the fire going that they put too much fuel on, and it has to be raked out and have the bars cleared."

"Learn to live well, that thou may'st die so too; To live and die is all we have to do."

"Cette longue et cruelle maladie qu'on appele la vie."

": That long and cruel malady which one calls life."

"Mr. Wopsle's great-aunt conquered a confirmed habit of living into which she had fallen."

"My life is one demd horrid grind."

"Live, while you live," the epicure would say, "And seize the pleasures of the present day;" "Live, while you live," the sacred preacher cries, "And give to God each moment as it flies." "Lord, in my views let both united be; I live in pleasure, when I live to Thee."

"So that my life be brave, what though not long?"

"'Tis not for nothing that we life pursue; It pays our hopes with something still that's new."

"When I consider life, 'tis all a cheat; Yet, fooled with hope, men favour the deceit; Trust on, and think tomorrow will repay. Tomorrow's falser than the former day."

"Like pilgrims to th' appointed place we tend; The World's an Inn, and Death the journey's end."

"Take not away the life you cannot give: For all things have an equal right to live."

"The wheels of weary life at last stood still."

"Living from hand to mouth."

"A little rule, a little sway, A sunbeam in a winter's day, Is all the proud and mighty have Between the cradle and the grave."

"A man's ingress into the world is naked and bare, His progress through the world is trouble and care; And lastly, his egress out of the world, is nobody knows where. If we do well here, we shall do well there; I can tell you no more if I preach a whole year."

"Life is short, and time is swift; Roses fade, and shadows shift."

"Life's an Inn, my house will shew it;— I thought so once, but now I know it."

"This world's a city full of crooked streets, Death's the market-place where all men meet; If life were merchandise that men should buy, The rich would always live, the poor might die."

"Nulli desperandum, quam diu spirat."

": No one is to be despaired of as long as he breathes. (While there is life there is hope)."

"There is one thing alone that stands the brunt of life throughout its course: a quiet conscience."

"Life is short, yet sweet."

"For like a child, sent with a fluttering light To feel his way along a gusty night, Man walks the world. Again, and yet again, The lamp shall be by fits of passion slain; But shall not He who sent him from the door Relight the lamp once more, and yet once more?"

"The King in a carriage may ride, And the Beggar may crawl at his side; But in the general race, They are traveling all the same pace."

"Were the offer made true, I would engage to run again, from beginning to end, the same career of life. All I would ask should be the privilege of an author, to correct, in a second edition, certain errors of the first."

"We live merely on the crust or rind of things."

"The old Quaker was right: "I expect to pass through life but once. If there is any kindness, or any good thing I can do to my fellow beings, let me do it now. I shall pass this way but once.""

"How short is life! how frail is human trust!"

"Lebe, wie Du, wenn du stirbst, Wünschen wirst, gelebt zu haben."

": Live in such a way as, when you come to die, you will wish to have lived."

"We are in this life as it were in another man's house…. In heaven is our home, in the world is our Inn: do not so entertain thyself in the Inn of this world for a day as to have thy mind withdrawn from longing after thy heavenly home."

"Die uns das Leben gaben, herrliche Gefühle, Erstarren in dem irdischen Gewühle."

": The fine emotions whence our lives we mold Lie in the earthly tumult dumb and cold."

"Grau, theurer Freund, ist alle Theorie Und grün des Lebens goldner Baum."

": My worthy friend, gray are all theories And green alone Life's golden tree."