Human Life Quotes

Human life is proverbially uncertain; few things are more certain than the solvency of a life-insurance company.

Only He who really lived a human life (and I presume that only one did) can fully taste the horror of death.

The afternoon of a human life must have a significance of its own, and cannot be merely a pitiful appendage to life's morning.

The answer to human life is not to be found within the limits of human life.

The basic condition of human life is happiness.

... if the production of any commodity necessitates the sacrifice of human life, society should do without that commodity, but itcan not do without that life.

Wherever human life is concerned, the unnatural stricture of excessive verticality cannot stand against more natural horizontality.

Of all the damnable waste of human life that ever was invented, clerking is the worst.

I have no wish to take life, not even human life

Anxiety in human life is what squeaking and grinding are in machinery that is not oiled. In life, trust is the oil.

Of the whole sum of human life no small part is that which consists of a man's relations to his country, and his feelings concerning it.

The purpose of human life is the dissolution of the soul and the revelation of the Spirit.

Every human life had its pattern that had to be worked out slowly to its ultimate conclusion.

A human life the treasure of the world cannot buy; nor can it redeem one which is misspent; nor can it make full and complete and beautiful a life which is dwarfed and warped and ugly.

It also is true that some ideas naturally work themselves out over a longer period of time than a single human life can encompass.

Human life-everybody lives it, but only to a few is it known.

I compare human life to a large mansion of many apartments, two of which I can only describe, the doors of the rest being as yet shut upon me.

I feel now at 53 I have grown into a deeper understanding of what a human life is.

For men to tell how human life began Is hard; for who himself beginning knew?

Among the works of man, which human life is rightly employed in perfecting, the first in importance surely is man himself.

All our inventions have endowed material forces with intellectual life, and degraded human life into a material force.

Every stage of human life, except the last, is marked out by certain and defined limits; old age alone has no precise and determinate boundary.

Israel is not dangerous on one hand, but on the other hand it is dangerous. Human life is just dangerous, in general.

For me, my faith informs my life. I try and spend a little time on my knees every day. But it all for me begins with cherishing the dignity, the worth, the value of every human life.

Human life is too difficult for people.

The test of the life of a saint is not success, but faithfulness in human life as it actually is.

Nothing is so false as human life, nothing so treacherous. God knows no one would have accepted it as a gift, if it had not been given without our knowledge.

I believe every human life is a gift from God and we should cherish and protect and celebrate them.

Leading a human life is a full-time occupation, to which everyone devotes decades of intense concern.

In its present terms, the global system values property over human life.

Human life may be regarded as a succession of frontispieces. The way to be satisfied is never to look back.

For the price of intelligence as we now know it is chronic anxiety, anxiety which appears to increase—oddly enough—to the very degree that human life is subjected to intelligent organization.

Applying the axioms of physical science to human life has something reprehensible to it.

In regard to man's final end, all the higher religions are in complete agreement. The purpose of human life is the discovery of Truth, the unitive knowledge of the Godhead.

Our vanity makes us exaggerate the importance of human life; the individual is nothing; Nature cares only for the species.

True medicine is to defend human life in any circumstances and not for political reasons or for reasons of any other kind, it is really to help, that is true solidarity.

If we as a society are willing to take away human life, we should be willing to watch it.

It is natural to think that an abstract science cannot be of much importance in affairs of human life, because it has omitted from its consideration everything of real interest.

The three most important events of human life are equally devoid of reason: birth, marriage and death.

The action required to sustain human life is primarily intellectual; everything man needs has to be discovered by his mind and produced by his effort.

Science is triumphant with far-ranging success, but its triumph is somehow clouded by growing difficulties in providing for the simple necessities of human life on earth.

There is one great and universal wish of mankind expressed in all religions, in all art and philosophy, and in all human life: the wish to pass beyond himself as he now is.

I have received hostile voice mail messages and e-mails. They are often anonymous, I'm sad to say, as anonymous messages are delivered only by very low forms of human life, in my opinion.

Hope is an essential constituent of human life.

Into every tidy scheme for arranging the pattern of human life, it is necessary to inject a certain dose of anarchism.

... the whole world of loneliness, poverty, and pain make a mockery of what human life should be.

War creates no absolutely new situation: it simply aggravates the permanent human situation so that we can no longer ignore it. Human life has always been lived on the edge of a precipice.

Our conviction is that human life and limb are a very special possession given by God to man and that no one has the right to take that away, in any cause, however just...

I'd like to be proven wrong firstly on the difficulty of building a self-sustaining closed circuit ecosystem in space that can support human life.

In the great flood of human life that is spawned upon the earth, it is not often that a man is born.