Living Man Quotes
29 quotes by 25 authors
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You may as soon find a living man who does not breathe, as a living Christian who does not pray.
— Matthew Henry
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Except a living man, there is nothing more wonderful than a book.
— Charles Kingsley
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Both in thy private sessions, and the universal assizes, thou shalt be sure of the same Judge, the same jury, the same witnesses, the same…
— Thomas Adams
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This American government - what is it but a tradition, though a recent one, endeavoring to transmit itself unimpaired to posterity, but each instant losing…
— Henry David Thoreau
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Do you suppose there is any living man so unreasonable that if he found himself stricken with a dangerous ailment he would not anxiously desire…
— Petrarch
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It takes just as much to save a dead man as a living man.
— Wilford Woodruff
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It is often said that ‘the germ of all Stalinism was in Bolshevism at its beginning’. Well, I have no objection. Only, Bolshevism also contained…
— Victor Serge
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Leisure without literature is death, or rather the burial of a living man -Otium sine litteris mors est et hominis vivi sepultura
— Seneca the Younger
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None but a good man is really a living man, and the more good any man does, the more he really lives. All the rest…
— Herman Melville
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Cynicism can be funny. But it's the easy way. You'll forget to enjoy anything. I try to make the evolving choice, the forward-moving, life-giving choice.…
— Matthew McConaughey
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One must be a living man and a posthumous artist.
— Jean Cocteau
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You might as reasonably expect to find a living man without breath, as a true Christian without the spirit of prayer and supplication.
— George Whitefield
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To hear the world applaud the hollow ghost Which blamed the living man.
— Matthew Arnold
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It is - last stage of all When we are frozen up within, and quite The phantom of ourselves To hear the world applaud the…
— Matthew Arnold
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As surely as you are a living man, so surely did that spectral anatomy visit my room again last night, grin in my face, and…
— Bill Vaughan
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There is peace more destructive of the manhood of living man than war is destructive of his material body.
— Douglas William Jerrold
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He who has gone, so we but cherish his memory, abides with us, more potent, nay, more present than the living man.
— Antoine de Saint-Exupery
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The glory of God is the living man, but the life of man is the vision of God', says St. Irenaeus, getting to the heart…
— Pope Benedict XVI
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But no living man am I! You look upon a woman. Éowyn I am, Éomund's daughter. You stand between me and my lord and kin.…
— J.R.R. Tolkien
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Without a clear perception of his reasons for living, man will never consent to live, and will rather destroy himself than tarry on earth, though…
— Fyodor Dostoevsky
Who Wrote These Living Man Quotes
25 authors contributed a total of 29 Living Man Quotes as follows: