Life is a campaign, not a battle, and has 40 its defeats as well as its victories. Donn Piatt.
Life is a casket, not precious in itself, but valuable in proportion to what fortune, or industry, or virtue has placed within it. Landor.
Life is a comedy to him who thinks, and a tragedy to him who feels. Horace Walpole.
Life is a crucible, into which we are thrown and tried. The actual weight and value of a man are expressed in the spiritual substance of the man; all else is dross. Chapin.
Life is a disease of the spirit; a working incited by passion. Rest is peculiar to the spirit. Novalis.
Life is a disease (Krankheit), sleep a palliative, 45 death the radical cure. C. J. Weber.
Life is a dream and death an awakening. Beaumelle.
Life is a fairy scene: almost all that deserves the name of enjoyment or pleasure is only a charming delusion; and in comes repining age, in all the gravity of hoary wisdom, and wretchedly chases away the bewitching phantom. Burns.
Life is a fortress which neither you nor I know anything about. Why throw obstacles in the way of its defence? Its own means are superior to all the apparatus of your laboratories. Emerson.
Life is a fragment, a moment between two eternities, influenced by all that has preceded, and to influence all that follows. Channing.