Best life-is & graves Quotes | Short & Famous Sayings

“I think, whatever mortals crave, With impotent endeavor, A wreath--a rank--a throne--a grave-- The world goes round forever; I think that life is not too long, And therefore I determine, That many people read a song, Who will not read a sermon.”

People Thinking World Long Life Is Song Forever Rounds Determine Graves Mortals Endeavor Thrones Sermons Crave Wreaths

Book:The Poetical Works of Winthrop Mackworth Praed

Source: The Poetical Works of Winthrop Mackworth Praed

“If life is not real, life is not earnest, and the grave is its goal, perhaps it's ridiculous t otake ourselves so seriously.”

Ifs Real Life Is Goal Ridiculous Graves Real Life Earnest

Book:What Does It All Mean?: A Very Short Introduction to Philosophy

Source: What Does It All Mean?: A Very Short Introduction to Philosophy

“...But nature does not say that cats are more valuable than mice; nature makes no remark on the subject. She does not even say that the cat is enviable or the mouse pitiable. We think the cat superior because we have (or most of us have) a particular philosophy to the effect that life is better than death. But if the mouse were a German pessimist mouse, he might not think that the cat had beaten him at all. He might think he had beaten the cat by getting to the grave first.”

Ifs Thinking Firsts Doe Philosophy Might Life Is Subjects Effects Particular Cat Valuable Graves Superiors Mice Beaten Remarks Pessimist

Book:The Essential Gilbert K. Chesterton

Source: The Essential Gilbert K. Chesterton

“Life is more than a theory, and love of truth butters no bread: old men who have had to struggle along their way, who know the endless bitterness, the grave moral deterioration which follow an empty exchequer, may well be pardoned for an over-wish to see their sons secured from it; hunger, at least, is a reality.”

Source: The nemesis of faith: or, The history of Markham Sutherland

“We are buried when we're born. The world is a place of graves occupied and graves potential. Life is what happens while we wait for our appointment with the mortician.”

World Life Happens Life Is Waiting Born Graves Buried Appointments Morticians

Book:The Odd Thomas Series 7-Book Bundle: Odd Thomas, Forever Odd, Brother Odd, Odd Hours, Odd Apocalypse, Odd Interlude, Deeply Odd

Source: The Odd Thomas Series 7-Book Bundle: Odd Thomas, Forever Odd, Brother Odd, Odd Hours, Odd Apocalypse, Odd Interlude, Deeply Odd

“When life is woe, and hope is dumb, the World says, "Go!" The Grave says, "Come!”

World Life Is Death Graves Dumb Woe

Author:Arthur Guiterman

“Dreams dawn and fly: friends smile and die, Like spring flowers. Our vaunted life is one long funeral. Men dig graves, with bitter tears, For their dead hopes; and all, Mazed with doubts, and sick with fears, Count the hours.”

Men Life Long Dream Life Is Dies Hours Doubt Tears Flower Spring Sick Graves Bitter Dawn Funeral Spring Flowers

Book:Matthew Arnold

Source: Matthew Arnold

“In the air we breathe, in the water we drink, in the earth we tread on, Life is every where. Nature lives: every pore is bursting with Life ; every death is only a new birth, every grave a cradle.”

Life Earth Life Is Water Air Birth Drink Breathe Graves Cradle Bursting Nature Life

Book:Studies in animal life

Source: Studies in animal life

“Life is the journey between darkness of the womb and darkness of the grave.”

Life Life Is Darkness Journey Graves Womb

Author:Ala Bashir

“Life ... is only heavy and none else; there is only the one trip, all heavy. Heavy that leads to the grave. For everyone and everything.”

Life Life Is Heavy Graves

Book:A Scanner Darkly

Source: A Scanner Darkly

“There are two sorts of ignorance: we philosophize to escape ignorance; we start from the one, we repose in the other; they are the goals from which and to which we tend; and the pursuit of knowledge is but a course between two ignorances, as human life is only a traveling from grave to grave.”

Humans Two Life Is Courses Goal Ignorance Pursuit Graves Human Life Repose Pursuit Of Knowledge

Author:Sir William Hamilton, 9th Baronet

“We die every day; every moment deprives us of a portion of life and advances us a step toward the grave; our whole life is only along and painful sickness.”

Whole Moments Life Is Death Dies Steps Painful Whole Life Graves Sickness Portions

Book:Sermons

Source: Sermons

“Every moment of life is a step toward the grave. [Fr., Chaque instant de la vie est un pas vers la mort.]”

Life Moments Life Is Steps Graves Instant Moments Of Life

Author:Prosper Jolyot de Crebillon

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