Human Life Quotes - Page 17

• Gradually we come to admit that Shakespeare understands a greater extent and variety of human life than Dante; but that Dante understands deeper degrees of degradation and higher degrees of exaltation.

  T. S. Eliot

  Exaltation, Degrees, Degradation

  T.S. Eliot (1950). “Selected Essays”

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• Marriage and deathless friendship, both should be inviolable and sacred: two great creative passions, separate, apart, but complementary: the one pivotal, the other adventurous: the one, marriage, the centre of human life; and the other, the leap ahead.

  D. H. Lawrence

  Friendship, Marriage, Passion

  D.H. Lawrence (2013). “Delphi Complete Works of D.H. Lawrence (Illustrated)”, p.9049, Delphi Classics

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• Protestantism came and gave a great blow to the religious and ritualistic rhythm of the year, in human life. Non-conformity almostfinished the deed.... Mankind has got to get back to the rhythm of the cosmos, and the permanence of marriage.

  D. H. Lawrence

  Marriage, Religious, Blow

  D.H. Lawrence (2000). “Lady Chatterley's Lover”, p.30, Modern Library

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• Marriage is the clue to human life, but there is no marriage apart from the wheeling sun and the nodding earth, from the strayingof the planets and the magnificence of the fixed stars.

  D. H. Lawrence

  Marriage, Stars, Cosmos

  D. H. Lawrence, Michael Squires (2002). “Lady Chatterley's Lover and A Propos of 'Lady Chatterley's Lover'”, p.323, Cambridge University Press

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• ... what a fatal thing in pictures, books, or human lives, is a lack of proportion.

  Dinah Maria Murlock Craik

  Book, Life Is, Proportion

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• For the price of intelligence as we now know it is chronic anxiety, anxiety which appears to increase—oddly enough—to the very degree that human life is subjected to intelligent organization.

  Alan Watts

  Intelligent, Organization, Anxiety

  Alan Watts (1973). “This is It, and Other Essays on Zen and Spiritual Experience”, Vintage

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• See yonder thin column of smoke curling up through the woods from some invisible farmhouse, the standard raised over some rural homestead.... It is a hieroglyphic of man's life, and suggests more intimate and important things than the boiling of a pot. Where its fine column rises above the forest, like an ensign, some human life has planted itself,--and such is the beginning of Rome, the establishment of the arts, and the foundation of empires, whether on the prairies of America or the steppes of Asia.

  Henry David Thoreau

  Art, Men, America

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• In the Middle Ages the king offered protection to his subjects in return for their loyalty, and the subjects were doubly protected, for the church also sheltered them. The need for shelter - for a father image that cares and will hopefully provide and give some meaning to human lives - remains as real as it was in the Middle Ages, but modern technocracy has no place for either the father or the church and provides no substitute.

  Robert Payne

  Loyalty, Kings, Father

  Robert Payne (1975). “The Corrupt Society: From Ancient Greece to Present-Day America”, Praeger Publishers

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• A government which can protect and defend its citizens from wrong and outrage and does not is vicious. A government which would do it and cannot is weak; and where human life is insecure through either weakness or viciousness in the administration of law, there must be a lack of justice and where this is wanting, nothing can make up the deficiency.

  Frances Harper

  Insecure, Law, Government

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• The sciences that purport to treat of human things -- the new scientific storyings of the social, the political, the racial or ethnic, and the psychic, nature of human beings -- treat not of human things but mere things, things that make up the physical, or circumstantial, content of human life but are not of the stuff of humanity, have not the human essence in them.

  Laura Riding

  Essence, Psychics, Political

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• The household is a school of power. There, within the door, learn the tragi-comedy of human life.

  Ralph Waldo Emerson

  School, Power, Doors

  Ralph Waldo Emerson (2013). “Delphi Complete Works of Ralph Waldo Emerson (Illustrated)”, p.2738, Delphi Classics

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• The pursuit of knowledge is but a course between two ignorances, as human life is itself only a wayfaring from grave to grave.

  Sir William Hamilton, 9th Baronet

  Ignorance, Two, Life Is

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• I believe that the astonishingly consistent and nuanced reality of the planetary correlations with the archetypal dynamics of human life is one of the most compelling intimations we have that we live in a meaning-laden and purposeful universe.

  Richard Tarnas

  Believe, Reality, Dynamics

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• Every human being is tried this way in the active service of expectancy. Now comes the fulfillment and relieves him, but soon he is again placed on reconnaissance for expectancy; then he is again relieved, but as long as there is any future for him, he has not yet finished his service. And while human life goes on this way in very diverse expectancy, expecting very different things according to different times and occasions and in different frames of mind, all life is again one nightwatch of expectancy.

  Soren Kierkegaard

  Long, Mind, Different

  "Eighteen Upbuilding Discourses". Book by Soren Kierkegaard, 1844.

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• These arts open great gates of a future, promising to make the world plastic and to lift human life out of its beggary to a god- like ease and power.

  Ralph Waldo Emerson

  Art, Power, Ease

  Ralph Waldo Emerson, Ronald A. Bosco, Joel Myerson (2015). “Ralph Waldo Emerson”, p.518, Harvard University Press

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• In my short experience of human life, the outward obstacles, if there were any such, have not been living men, but the institutions of the dead.

  Henry David Thoreau

  Men, Obstacles, Tradition

  Henry David Thoreau (2016). “A Week on the Concord and Merrimack Rivers”, p.91, Xist Publishing

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• Time is the most important thing in human life, for what is pleasure after the departure of time? and the most consolatory, since pain, when pain has passed, is nothing. Time is the wheel-track in which we roll on towards eternity, conducting us to the Incomprehensible. In its progress there is a ripening power, and it ripens us the more, and the more powerfully, when we duly estimate it. Listen to its voice, do not waste it, but regard it as the highest finite good, in which all finite things are resolved.

  Alexander von Humboldt

  Life, Pain, Voice

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• ...all enjoyment is dependent upon the frailty of human life and human desires ... if we were to have all we want and to live forever, all enjoyment would be gone.

  Ellen Swallow Richards

  Forever, Desire, Would Be

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• Judaism calls for us to honor the rhythm of human life, the demands of the human community around us, the call of the divine order as the filter and scale for the decisions that drive our own small lives. We do not rule the universe, Judaism reminds us. God does. We are not its standard or its norms. We are only its keepers, its agents, its stewards. To do right by the universe at large is the measure of a happiness framed with the entire cosmos in mind but lived in microcosms across time.

  Joan D. Chittister

  Divine Order, Community, Decision

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• I had only to remember that centuries before, men fell in battle for the daughter of Troy, that passions carried greater weight than decorum. It took so little to prove that human life and property are devastatingly temporary. All she had to do was lie down for a prince. They burned the city to the ground.

  Brenna Yovanoff

  Daughter, Lying, Passion

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• All human life at every stage of its development is worthy of protection.

  Marco Rubio

  Development, Protection, Congress

  Marco Rubio during GOP primary debate at Quicken Loans Arena in Cleveland, Ohio, time.com. August 7, 2015.

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• What I have advocated is that we pass law in this country that says all human life at every stage of its development is worthy of protection. In fact, I think that law already exists. It is called the Constitution of the United States.

  Marco Rubio

  Country, Thinking, Law

  Marco Rubio during GOP primary debate at Quicken Loans Arena in Cleveland, Ohio, www.washingtonpost.com. August 6, 2015.

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• I want to create a culture of life where every innocent human life is welcome to the world. I know those are difficult cases, but I am prolife. And I understand we've got to go through the Supreme Court.

  Bobby Jindal

  Culture, World, Want

  "Bobby Jindal opens up about his 2016 presidential run". "Hannity" with Sean Hannity, www.foxnews.com. July 3, 2015.

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• Canon law pertains to Catholics. Jewish law pertains only to Jews. But the sharia dictates every basic aspect of human life, asserts its authority over non-Muslims, unlike Jewish law and unlike canon law, which is why they're slaughtering Christians, they're slaughtering secular Muslims across the Muslim world.

  Pamela Geller

  Christian, Law, Catholic

  Source: www.foxnews.com

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• It appears that there are enormous differences of opinion as to the probability of a failure with loss of vehicle and of human life. The estimates range from roughly 1 in 100 to 1 in 100,000. The higher figures come from the working engineers, and the very low figures from management.

  Richard P. Feynman

  Loss, Differences, Safety

  Richard P. Feynman (2011). “"What Do You Care What Other People Think?": Further Adventures of a Curious Character”, p.238, W. W. Norton & Company

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