Life is rather a state of embryo, a preparation for life; a man is not completely born till he has passed through death. Franklin.
Life is ravelled almost ere we wot, / And with our vexing / To disentangle it, we make the knot / But more perplexing, / Embittering our lot. Dr. Walter Smith.
Life is real, life is earnest. Longfellow.
Life is sacred; but there is something more 5 sacred still: woe to him who does not know that withal. Carlyle.
Life is so complicated a game, that the devices of skill are liable to be defeated at every turn by air-blown chances, incalculable as the descent of thistle-down. George Eliot.
Life is so healthful that it even finds nourishment in death. Carlyle.
Life is that which holds matter together. Porphyry.
Life is the art of being well deceived. Hazlitt.
Life is the best thing we can possibly make of 10 it. G. W. Curtis.
Life is the jailer, death the angel sent to draw the unwilling bolts and set us free. Lowell.