Lucretius Quotes About Life

Quotes about: Life

• To none is life given in freehold; to all on lease.

  Lucretius

  Life, Given, Lease

  De Rerum Natura, bk.3, line 971 (translated by R. E. Latham).

• Life is one long struggle in the dark.

  Lucretius

  Life, Struggle, Dark

  Titus Lucretius Carus (1937). “Lucretius, de rerum natura”

• Our life must once have end; in vain we fly
  From following Fate; e'en now, e'en now, we die.

  Lucretius

  Life, Fate, Vain

• Many animals even now spring out of the soil, Coalescing from the rains and the heat of the sun. Small wonder, then, if more and bigger creatures, Full-formed, arose from the new young earth and sky. The breed, for instance, of the dappled birds Shucked off their eggshells in the springtime, as Crickets in summer will slip their slight cocoons All by themselves, and search for food and life. Earth gave you, then, the first of mortal kinds, For all the fields were soaked with warmth and moisture.

  Lucretius

  Life, Summer, Spring

  Titus Lucretius Carus, Anthony M. Esolen (1995). “De rerum natura”, Johns Hopkins Univ Pr

• And many kinds of creatures must have died,
  Unable to plant out new sprouts of life.
  For whatever you see that lives and breathes and thrives
  Has been, from the very beginning, guarded, saved
  By it's trickery for its swiftness or brute strength.
  And many have been entrusted to our care,
  Commended by their usefulness to us.
  For instance, strength supports a savage lion;
  Foxes rely on their cunning; deer their flight.

  Lucretius

  Life, Death, Science

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