Life Quote by Douglas Clegg

“Truly we are creatures of labor and suffering, and nothing for long. Labor and suffering, and the plain sight of our destiny is the…

— Euripides

“As the flesh gets in the way of our ideals, we regulate ourselves unto enslavement and inhumanity. The human spirit then dies and the…

— Earl Warhus

“Sometimes we burn and steal and rape and kill and sacrifice, Just to remind ourselves that we're still alive.”

— Jukebox the Ghost

“Our body begins to destroy itself from the moment it is born. We are fragile. We’re creatures of passage. All that is left of…

— Carlos Ruiz Zafón

“Human beings are cursed with the knowledge of their own mortality. They are, however, blessed with the ability to ignore it.”

— Adam B. Ford

“All breathing, existing, living, sentient creatures should not be slain, nor treated with violence, nor abused, nor tormented, nor driven away.”

— Mahavira

“Oh! if, when we oppress and grind our fellow-creatures, we bestowed but one thought on the dark evidences of human error, which, like dense…

— Charles Dickens

“We are mortals all, human and nonhuman, bound in one fellowship of love and travail. No one escapes the fate of death. But we…

— Gary Kowalski

“We are but skin about a wind, with muscles clenched against mortality. We sleep in a long reproachful dust against ourselves. We are full…

— Djuna Barnes

“Remember death. Even for those who wield great power, life is brief. There is only one way to triumph over death, and that is…

— Dan Brown

“There is a corner in every human heart made to be filled with hatred, fear, and violence. It is our common curse.”

— William Rivers Pitt

“We are therefore blessed with powerful minds yet at the same time cursed, not only to die, but to know that we must.”

— Stephen Cave