Life will be lengthened while growing, for
Thought is the measure of life.
Life Quotes
“Life” is a smaller page than you might expect, and an older one. Seneca is the most-quoted of the classical writers, and the sourced entries run from Emerson’s journals in 1822 to Carl Jung’s memoir in 1963. Reading it is closer to browsing a shelf of moralists than scrolling a feed of captions.
One entry needs a warning. “Life is not a problem to be solved, but a reality to be experienced” is credited to Søren Kierkegaard all over the internet. The earliest appearance anyone has located is in a 1976 book about Jack Kerouac, which is a long way from nineteenth-century Copenhagen. We keep it listed, with its flag, because people search for it. We would not put his name under it.
Wile some no other cause for life can give
But a dull habitude to live.
Life is totally about losing everything. As life goes on, we lose more than we acquire.
Life, too, is like that. You live it forward, but understand it backward.
The drama's laws the drama's patrons give.
For we that live to please must please to live.
To execute great things, one should live as though one would never die.
The Book of Life begins with a man and a woman in a garden.
It ends with Revelations.