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.
The essence of life is change, he said, and the essence of eternal life is eternal change.
Life is too short and hard and strange not to blame God for what He done made of the world.
When life is true to the poles of nature, the streams of truth will roll through us in song.
Everyone now knows how to find the meaning of life within himself.
Ofttimes the test of courage becomes rather to live than to die.
This is a school in which no pupil ever fails; every one must go on to the end.
Dost thou love life? then do not squander time; for that is the stuff life is made of.
The game of life looks cheerful when one carries a treasure safe in his heart.
Welfare's purpose should be to eliminate, as far as possible, the need for its own existence.