Emily Dickinson Quote

Of all the possessions of this life fame is the noblest; when the body has sunk into the dust the great name still lives.

Friedrich Schiller

Every true man, sir, who is a little above the level of the beasts and plants does not live for the sake of living, without knowing how to live; but he lives so as to give a meaning and a value of his own to life.

Luigi Pirandello

The wise man does not expose himself needlessly to danger, since there are few things for which he cares sufficiently; but he is willing, in great crises, to give even his life - knowing that under certain conditions it is not worthwhile to live.

Aristotle

God gave us the gift of life; it is up to us to give ourselves the gift of living well.

Voltaire

• God

What life half gives a man, posterity gives entirely.

Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

Once is a man's life, for one mortal moment, he must make a grab for immorality; if not, he has not lived.

Sylvester Stallone

• Morality

Every man's life ends the same way. It is only the details of how he lived and how he died that distinguish one man from another.

Ernest Hemingway

There has never yet been a man in our history who led a life of ease whose name is worth remembering.

Theodore Roosevelt

Faith is the sense of life, that sense by virtue of which man does not destroy himself, but continues to live on. It is the force whereby we live.

Leo Tolstoy

• Faith
• Virtue

The fear of death follows from the fear of life. A man who lives fully is prepared to die at any time.

Mark Twain

• Death

If you are lucky enough to have lived in Paris as a young man, then wherever you go for the rest of your life it stays with you, for Paris is a moveable feast.

Ernest Hemingway

When Man evolved Pity, he did a queer thing - deprived himself of the power of living life as it is without wishing it to become something different.

John Galsworthy

• Power

Faith is a living, daring confidence in God's grace, so sure and certain that a man could stake his life on it a thousand times.

Martin Luther

• God
• Faith

A man can live and be healthy without killing animals for food; therefore, if he eats meat, he participates in taking animal life merely for the sake of his appetite.

Leo Tolstoy

• Health

I have lived eighty years of life and know nothing for it, but to be resigned and tell myself that flies are born to be eaten by spiders and man to be devoured by sorrow.

Voltaire

It is not in giving life but in risking life that man is raised above the animal; that is why superiority has been accorded in humanity not to the sex that brings forth but to that which kills.

Simone de Beauvoir

That every man after the life in the world lives to eternity, is evident from this, that man is then spiritual, and no longer natural, and that the spiritual man, separated from the natural, remains such as he is to eternity, for man's state cannot be changed after death.

Emanuel Swedenborg

• Spirituality

My kids are not known, and I think that is very important. So far they have lived a normal life, and will continue to do so. I feel they should have the possibility to live a free life without the burden of fame I have created.

Michael Schumacher

There is no man, however wise, who has not at some period of his youth said things, or lived in a way the consciousness of which is so unpleasant to him in later life that he would gladly, if he could, expunge it from his memory.

Marcel Proust

• Consciousness

The best and safest thing is to keep a balance in your life, acknowledge the great powers around us and in us. If you can do that, and live that way, you are really a wise man.

Euripides

• Knowledge
• Power