Life is a toy made of glass; it appears to be of inestimable price, but in reality it is very cheap.

Men cling to life even at the cost of enduring great misfortune.

Life is seldom as unendurable as, to judge by the facts, it logically ought to be.

Deem not life a thing of consequence. For look at the yawning void of the future, and at that other limitless space, the past.

A living dog is better than a dead lion.

I count life just a stuff To try the soul's strength on.

We are involved in a life that passes understanding and our highest business is our daily life.

Life is fleeting-and therefore endurable.

There are men here and there to whom the whole of life is like an after-dinner hour with a cigar; easy, pleasant, empty, perhaps enlivened by some fable of strife to be forgotten before the end is told.

Life is an incurable disease.