The life of a man is tormented not by things, 50 but by opinions of things. Immermann.
The life of a nation is usually, like the flow of a lava stream, first bright and fierce, then languid and covered, at last advancing by the tumbling over and over of its frozen blocks. Ruskin.
The life of all gods figures itself to us as a sublime sadness,—earnestness of infinite battle against infinite labour. Carlyle.
The life of an animal, until the hour of his death, passeth away in disciplines, in elevations and depressions, in unions and separations. Hitopadesa.
The life of an egoist is a tissue of inconsistencies, of actions that, from his own point of view, are absurd and foolish. Renan.
The life of every man is a diary in which he means to write one story, and writes another. J. M. Barrie.
The life of every man is as the well-spring of a stream, whose small beginnings are indeed plain to all, but whose ulterior course and destination, as it winds through the expanses of infinite years, only the omniscient can discern. Carlyle.
The life of man is a journey; a journey that 5 must be travelled, however bad the roads or the accommodation. Goldsmith.
The life of the Divine Man stands in no connection with the general history of the world in his time. It was a private life; his teaching was a teaching for individuals. Goethe.
The life of the lowest mortal, if faithfully recorded, would be interesting to the highest. Quoted by Carlyle.