The confined space I occupy is so minute when compared with the rest of the universe, where I am not and have no business to be; and the fraction of time I shall live is so infinitesimal when contrasted with eternity, in which I have never been and never shall be ... And yet here, in this atom of myself, in this mathematical point, blood circulates, the brain is active, aspiring to something too ...

The end of living is the true enjoyment of it.

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.