Human Life Quotes - Page 10

• Human life without some form of poetry is not human life but animal existence.

  Randall Jarrell

  Animal, Form, Existence

  "Poetry and the Age" by Randall Jarrell, Vintage paperback, (p. 22), 1955.

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• In the nature of things, I must soon lose sight of this sense of constant metamorphosis whose limits bound our human life.

  Julia Ward Howe

  Sight, Limits, Metamorphosis

  "Beyond the Veil". Essay in "In After Days: Thoughts on the Future Life", book by Henry James and William Dean Howells, 1910.

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• Art is the one form of human energy in the whole world, which really works for union, and destroys the barriers between man and man. It is the continual, unconscious replacement, however fleeting, of oneself by another; the real cement of human life; the everlasting refreshment and renewal. For, what is grievous, dompting, grim, about our lives is that we are shut up within ourselves, with an itch to get outside ourselves. And to be stolen away from ourselves by Art is a momentary relaxation from that itching, a minute's profound, and as it were secret, enfranchisement.

  John Galsworthy

  Art, Real, Men

  John Galsworthy (2008). “The Complete Essays of John Galsworthy: Easyread Super Large 20pt Edition”, p.338, ReadHowYouWant.com

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• The most evident quality of human life is its loneliness.

  Austin O'Malley

  Loneliness, Quality, Life Is

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• When the record of any human life is set down, there are three pairs of eyes who see it in a different light. There is the life as I see it. as others see it, and as God sees it.

  Fulton J. Sheen

  Eye, Light, Different

  Fulton J. Sheen (2009). “Treasure in Clay: The Autobiography of Fulton J. Sheen”, p.1, Image

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• Human life is fragile: we live in the space between one breath and the next. We often try to maintain an illusion of permanence, through what we do, say... how we enjoy ourselves... Yet it is an illusion that is constantly being undermined by change and death.

  Victoria Finlay

  Space, Trying, Next

  Victoria Finlay (2006). “Jewels: A Secret History”, p.343, Ballantine Books

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• Because of lack of moral principle, human life becomes worthless. Moral principle, truthfulness, is a key factor. If we lose that, then there is no future.

  Dalai Lama

  Keys, Principles, Moral

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• Mistaken
  regard for what are believed to be divine laws and a sentimental belief in the sanctity of human
  life tend to prevent both the elimination of defective infants and the sterilization of such adults as
  are themselves of no value to the community. The laws of nature require the obliteration of the
  unfit and human life is valuable only when it is of use to the community or race.

  Madison Grant

  Law, Race, Community

  Madison Grant (1922). “The Passing of the Great Race: Or, The Racial Basis of European History”

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• The highest perfection of human life consists in the mind of man being detached from care, for the sake of God.

  Thomas Aquinas

  Men, Perfection, Mind

  Saint Thomas (Aquinas) (1956). “On the Truth of the Catholic Faith: pts. 1-2. Providence”

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• 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.

  Henry Ward Beecher

  Jesus, Needs, Christ

  Henry Ward Beecher, William Drysdale (1887). “Proverbs from Plymouth Pulpit”

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• Law intends indeed to do service to human life, but it is not able when men do not choose to accept her services; for it is only in those who are obedient to her that she displays her special virtue.

  Epictetus

  Men, Law, Special

  Epictetus (2012). “Enchiridion”, p.54, Courier Corporation

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• 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.

  John Lancaster Spalding

  Men, Fire, Brave

  John Lancaster Spalding (1901). “Aphorisms and Reflections: Conduct, Culture and Religion”

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• Sometimes there are more tears than laughter, and sometimes there is more laughter than tears, and sometimes you feel so choked you can neither weep nor laugh. For tears and laughter there will always be so long as there is human life. When our tear wells have run dry and the voice of laughter is silenced, the world will be truly dead.

  Lin Yutang

  Running, Laughter, Voice

  Lin Yutang, (2013). “Between Tears and Laughter”, p.13, Read Books Ltd

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• 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.

  Barry Commoner

  Simple, Triumph, Growing

  1966 Science and Survival.

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• The judgment that human life is worth living, or rather can and ought to be made worth living, ... underlies all intellectual effort; it is the a priori of social theory, and its rejection (which is perfectly logical) rejects theory itself.

  Herbert Marcuse

  Rejection, Effort, Intellectual

  Herbert Marcuse (2013). “One-Dimensional Man: Studies in the Ideology of Advanced Industrial Society”, p.41, Routledge

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• I simply write what I want, wish, long to write.... The state of human life and the god or demon within. The constant internal war that being alive can conjure.

  Tanith Lee

  War, Writing, Long

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• The heart is like an instrument whose strings Steal nobler music from Life's many frets: The golden threads are spun thro' Suffering's fire, Wherewith the marriage-robes for heaven are woven: And all the rarest hues of human life Take radiance, and are rainbow'd out in tears.

  Gerald Massey

  Heart, Fire, Rainbow

  Gerald Massey (1864). “Poems”, p.204

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• I believe the family is the foundation of America - and that we must fight to protect and strengthen it. I believe in the sanctity of human life. I believe that people and their elected representatives should make our laws, not unelected judges.

  Mitt Romney

  Believe, Fighting, Law

  "Romney kicks off White House bid", edition.cnn.com. February 13, 2007.

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• God's irony, that in order to fight and defeat the threat of terrorism, we shall have to be clear about the principle of justice that allows us to understand what is evil in terrorism. And that principle of justice is the claim of justice that is inherent in every innocent human life. But if that claim was there in the Twin Towers, if it was there on the airplanes that those terrorists attacked, you explain to me why it is not there in the womb!

  Alan Keyes

  Airplane, Fighting, Order

  Alan Keyes' Speech at Thanksgiving Point, Lehi, Utah, www.keyesarchives.com. September 24, 2002.

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• Willpower is the fuel that runs human life; Like a driver in a computer application, Or Operating System in cyber programme, Willpower works life to performances; Life is deadwood; life, robust carrion, Without willpower in bright flame within.

  Praveen Kumar

  Running, Flames, Fuel

  Praveen Kumar “Celestial Glow”, AUTHOR

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• I have a horror of tags and labels. I don't understand, for instance, how people can talk about Bergman's "symbolism". Far from being symbolic, be seems to me, through and almost biological naturalism, to arrive at the spiritual truth about human life that is important to him.

  Andrei Tarkovsky

  Spiritual, Symbolism, People

  "Sculpting in Time" by Andrei Tarkovsky, (p. 149), 1986.

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• Christ has lifted woman to a new place in the world. And just in proportion as Christianity has sway, will she rise to a higher dignity in human life. What she has now, and what she shall have, of privilege and true honor, she owes to that gospel which took those qualities peculiarly and which had been counted weak and unworthy, and gave them a Divine glory in Christ.

  Herrick Johnson

  Women, Honor, Quality

  Herrick Johnson (1881). “Christianity's Challenge and Some Phases of Christianity Submitted for Candid Consideration”

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• A human life is defined by its relationship with others: by its duty to its species. In the face of this duty, life, liberty, and the pursuit of happiness are meaningless. What you call individual rights are merely the cultural fantasy of a failed civilization.

  Matthew Woodring Stover

  Pursuit Of Happiness, Rights, Civilization

  Matthew Woodring Stover (2008). “Blade of Tyshalle”, p.102, Del Rey

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• No human life, not even the life of the hermit in nature's wilderness, is possible without a world which directly or indirectly testifies to the presence of other human beings.

  Hannah

  World, Wilderness, Hermits

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• Life is not the unique property of Earth. Nor is life in the shape of human beings. Life takes many forms on other planets and far stars, forms that would seem bizarre to humans, as human life is bizarre to other life-forms.

  H. P. Lovecraft

  Life, Stars, Unique

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