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Brief and powerless is man's life; on him and all his race the slow, sure doom falls pitiless and dark.
- quote by Bertrand Russell
But helpless Pieces of the Game He plays Upon this Checker-board of Nights and Days; Hither and thither moves, and checks, and slays, And one by one back in the Closet lays.
- quote by Omar Khayyam
- quote by Samuel Johnson
Content with his past life, let him take leave of life like a satiated guest.
- quote by Horace
Cosmos is God, who whispered the syllable of life.
- quote by Dejan Stojanovic
Could it be ... that the hero is one who is willing to set out, take the first step, shoulder something? Perhaps the hero is one who puts his foot upon a path not knowing what he may expect from life but in some way feeling in his bones that life expects something of him.
- quote by P. L. Travers
Death is Certain, Life is not.
- quote by Augustus Hill
Did man compute Existence by enjoyment, and count o'er Such hours 'gainst years of life, say, would he name threescore?
- quote by Lord Byron
Do not tell people how to live their lives. Just tell them stories. And they will figure out how those stories apply to them.
- quote by Randy Pausch
Dost thou love Life? Then do not squander time, for that is the stuff life is made of.
- quote by Benjamin Franklin