Chance Quote by Samuel Johnson

There is no employment in the world so laborious as that of making to one's self a great name; life ends before one has…

— Jean de la Bruyere

Death of one's own free choice, death at the proper time, with a clear head and with joyfulness, consummated in the midst of children…

— Friedrich Nietzsche

There is an abandonment, an escape, that physical labor bestows.

— Steven Gould

The ceaseless labour of your life is to build the house of death.

— Michel de Montaigne

The certainty that life cannot be long, and the probability that it will be much shorter than nature allows, ought to awaken every man…

— Samuel Johnson

“There are two inevitable conditions of life, confronting all of us, which destroy its whole meaning; (1) death, which may at any moment pounce…

— Leo Tolstoy

There are in France some fifty thousand young men of good birth and fairly well off who are encouraged to live a life of…

— Guy de Maupassant

The reward of labour is life. Is that not enough?

— William Morris

What never vary are the necessities of being in the world, of having to labor and to die there.

— Jean-Paul Sartre

“Whoever works knows the grace of labour of life.”

— Lailah Gifty Akita

No labor is hard, no time is long, wherein the glory of eternity is the mark we level at.

— Francis Quarles

Perhaps all of life is no more than a long preparation for the leaving of it.

— John Banville