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.
Men deal with life as children with their play,
Who first misuse, then cast their toys away.
So long as men can breathe or eyes can see,
So long lives this, and this gives life to thee.
The end of life is to be like unto God; and the soul following God, will be like unto Him.
Our biggest tragedy is not knowing what to do with our lives.
His faith, perhaps, in some nice tenets might
Be wrong; his life, I'm sure, was in the right.