Quotes About Life

Patriotism is our taking care
To paint things as they are,
To not misname a spade,
And not shout of gloom, and flare,
When there’s just a shade.

Brief may be the earthly span of our grief;
Does that belie their anguish who have grieved?

Who steals a crown should humbly bear the blame
If his rule defames his people’s name.
They have a right to frown
At a king whose reign does not deserve acclaim,
And rise to seize their crown.

Time does not heal wounds inflicted with forethought.

If you find it in your heart to care for somebody else, you will have succeeded

It’s who steers a ship that wrecks its trip.
Where goes the shepherd there will go the sheep.

Hiroshima was the harvest of death that forced
A dead-end on the Holocaust,
Proving that even “evil” can serve the “good” end
Of those who prove to be its friend?

There is a very fine line between loving life and being greedy for it

It’s who steers a ship that wrecks its trip.
Where goes the shepherd there will go the sheep.

Time may seem to wait for the coy lady
Even as it hastens on, or is gone already.

They halve their worries that know what they want
And make it target of an earnest hunt.

Time may seem to wait for the coy lady
Even as it hastens on, or is gone already.

They halve their worries that know what they want
And make it target of an earnest hunt.

Battles have been won though lost
And lost though seemingly won;
And the faith of the cross is but a Phoenix
That rose from the ashes of a cold crucifixion.

"All joys amount to empty valves, It’s like you enjoyed too much,And in the end you’re left with nothing."

The murderous eagle earns a worthy name.
The vulture eats the dead and dies in blame.

When the plaudits start to ape a grumble,
And our footings start to drag and stumble,
And glory turns to face a younger age,
It’s time to take a bow and leave the stage.

The heart and the mind
are strangers entwined,
for what the heart percieves
the mind is unable to conceive.

The murderous eagle earns a worthy name.
The vulture eats the dead and dies in blame.

When the plaudits start to ape a grumble,
And our footings start to drag and stumble,
And glory turns to face a younger age,
It’s time to take a bow and leave the stage.

Sometimes it is wiser to board the 'tolerance ship'
for it sails smoothly throughout the seas of life.

No fraud escapes the searching hands of light.
And falsehoods, sown, germinate in shame.

When the plaudits start to ape a grumble,
And our footings start to drag and stumble,
And glory turns to face a younger age,
It’s time to take a bow and leave the stage.

Peace cannot exist without happiness which cannot exist without freedom which cannot exist without life. Some people fight for freedom and some people die for freedom but what is freedom really... without life...

Never put off till tomorrow what you can do today.

It’s not in caution that man’s safety lies
Or in timid silence when he ought to speak.
An end awaits the valiant as the weak.
Even the dumb dies.

At love’s checkerboard of delight
Those who play victim botch the game.

They strain the aqueous world in which we live
And worsen their woes who look back and grieve.

If the land of our fathers
stabs us like adders
are we still obliged to love it,
to nod our assent to its blind conceit,
and cultivate patriotism
in a loveless acre
massed with rocks?

Why do the faithful shrink
From the embrace
Of “eternal bliss”?

Why would they rather cling
To the flesh
Even by the thinnest shred
Of their crumbling skin?

What gives
Such honeyed taste
To earthly life?