Human Life Quotes
It is a consolation of human life that the sick forget what it is like to feel well, or the miserable to be happy.
Marriage is the clue to human life, but there is no marriage apart from the wheeling sun and the nodding earth, from the strayingof the planets and the magnificence of the fixed stars.
The decision to give an indicative date for a return is a mistake. It degrades the process. It degrades human life.
Of course I loved books more than people. Of course I valued "Jane Eyre" over the anonymous stranger...Of course all of Shakespeare was worth more than a human life.
The church must share in the secular problems of ordinary human life, not dominating, but helping and serving.
Science seems ready to confer upon us, as its final gift, the power to erase human life from this planet.
If we are more affected by the ruin of a palace than by the conflagration of a cottage, our humanity must have formed a very erroneous estimate of the miseries of human life.
Of human life, the most glorious or humble prospects are alike and soon bounded by the sepulchre.
I pull from a place within me that has ultimate faith in the meaningfulness and beauty of human life.
... the main concern of the fiction writer is with mystery as it is incarnated in human life.
The primary moral judgment on candidates and their positions is to be made in the light of their concern for protecting human life from conception to natural death.
Human life is inexplicable, and still without meaning: a fool may decide its fate.
The dramatic critic who is without prejudice is on the plane with the general who does not believe in taking human life.
The world needs something stronger than any possible rebellion against its peace. In other words it needs a federal world government embodying a new conception of human life as one whole.
What the meaning of human life may be I don't know: I incline to suspect that it has none.
In my short experience of human life, the outward obstacles, if there were any such, have not been living men, but the institutions of the dead.
There are various tough problems yet to solve, and we must shift to live, betwixt spirit and matter, such a human life as we can.
Human life is God's outer church. Its needs and urgencies are priests and pastors.
Self-denial does not belong to religion as characteristic of it; it belongs to human life; the lower nature must always be denied when you are trying to rise to a higher sphere.
Where human life needs most sympathy, where usually it is the most barren, there it is that Christ is more likely to be found than anywhere else.
Ah Fortune, what god is more cruel to us than thou! How thou delightest ever to make sport of human life!
Science has radically changed the conditions of human life on earth. It has expanded our knowledge and our power, but not our capacity to use them with wisdom.
The moral of human life is never simple, and the moral of a story which aims only at being true to human life cannot be expected to be any more so.
At some point I realized that you don't get a full human life if you try to cut off one end of it, that you need to agree to the entire experience, to the full spectrum of what happens.
I love energy. I love it. And I pursue it, and I want more of it. Physical and mental energy, to me, are the greatest riches of human life. And TM is like a free account of an endless amount of it.
I think for five lives, 10 lives, 15 human lives, we could save a million, two million, 10 million non-human lives.
You cannot measure the loss of a human life. It's all the things a person was, all their dreams, all the people who loved them, all they hoped to be and could give back to the world.
With Charles Woods, it was the first time I had ever seen tissue from a dead person used to save a human life. It piqued my curiosity.
The issue that a political campaign would make a human life into - you know - a political football, is unsettling.
As a brave man goes into fire or flood or pestilence to save a human life, so a generous mind follows after truth and love, and is not frightened from the pursuit by danger or toil or obloquy.
Half the misery of human life might be extinguished if men would alleviate the general curse they lie under by mutual offices of compassion, benevolence, and humanity.
Creativity - like human life itself - begins in darkness... bright ideas are preceded by a gestation period that is interior, murky, and completely necessary.
All working, practical political systems, even those professing to originate in moral grandeur, are based upon and operate by contempt of human life and the individual fate.
To hurry through the rise and fall of a fine, full sentence is like defying the role of time in human life.
Compared with the thousands of years in which human life has been on this planet, Christianity is a recent development.
It is like taking the sun out of the world, to bereave human life of friendship.
This was Shakespeare's form ; Who walk'd in every path of human life, Felt every passion ; and to all mankind Doth now, will ever, that experience yield Which his own genius only could acquire.
Truly disappointment is the guardian deity of human life; she sits at the threshold of unborn time, and marshals the events as they come forth.
Human life is just dangerous, in general. You know, waking up in the morning, you could get hit by a car. Wherever you go, you could choke on a fish bone and die. You never know.
Entertainment is a sacred pursuit when done well. When done well, it raises the quality of human life.
Fitzgerald said a very interesting thing in his diary; that human life proceeds from the good to the less good - that is, it's always worse as you go on. That's true.
It's easier to be skeptical because it's easier to understand that every human lives in their own world.
We think of the romance novel as a lesser form of literature, but I don't think that's true. Love is a very important aspect of human life and worth exploring.
Because a human is a someone and not a something, the source of human life must also be a Someone - not the blind, automatic forces of nature, as philosophies like naturalism and materialism tell us.