Life is a search after power; and this is an element with which the world is so saturated—there is no chink or crevice in which it is not lodged—that no honest seeking goes unrewarded. Emerson.
Life is a series of surprises, and would not be worth taking or keeping if it were not. Emerson.
Life is a short day, but it is a working day. 15 Hannah More.
Life is a shuttle. The Merry Wives, v. 1.
Life is a sincerity. In lucid intervals we say, "Let there be an entrance opened for me into realities; I have worn the fool's cap too long." Emerson.
Life is a sleep, love is a dream, and you have lived if you have loved. A. de Musset.
Life is a stream upon which drift flowers in spring and blocks of ice in winter. Joseph Roux.
Life is a succession of lessons which must be 20 lived to be understood. All is riddle, and the key to a riddle is another riddle. Emerson.
Life is a voyage. Victor Hugo.
Life is a warfare. Sen.