Quotes and Sayings About Human Life
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I'm one who seriously hates human life and would kill again.
-- Aileen Wuornos -
It was no human life that was involved in the matter, for that only is a human life which is a humane life.
-- Anna Kingsford -
Although human life is priceless, we always act as if something had an even greater price than life... but what is that something?
-- Antoine de Saint-Exupery -
The land is like poetry: it is inexplicably coherent, it is transcendent in its meaning, and it has the power to elevate a consideration of human life.
-- Barry Lopez -
Every human life contains a potential, if that potential is not fulfilled, then that life was wasted...
-- Carl Jung -
Communal well-being is central to human life.
-- Cat Stevens -
Faith walks simply, childlike, between the darkness of human life and the hope of what is to come.
-- Catherine Doherty -
A government cannot be truly just without affirming the intrinsic value of human life.
-- Charles Colson -
The basic wisdom of Shambhala is that in this world, as it is, we can find a good and meaningful human life that will also serve others. That is our true richness.
-- Chogyam Trungpa -
In the great flood of human life that is spawned upon the earth, it is not often that a man is born.
-- Clarence Darrow -
Human life is created in God's image, and that makes it sacred.
-- Colin S. Smith -
Justice is never advanced in the taking of human life.
-- Coretta Scott King -
Learning To believe you are magnificent. And gradually to discover that you are not magnificent. Enough labor for one human life.
-- Czeslaw Milosz -
All human life can be found in an airport.
-- David Walliams -
To advocate irrationality is to advocate that which is destructive to human life.
-- George H. Smith -
Practicing Dharma is the supreme method for improving the quality of our human life.
-- Geshe Kelsang Gyatso -
Genius can do much, but even genius falls short of the actuality of a single human life.
-- Hamilton Wright Mabie -
Nothing in human life, least of all in religion, is ever right until it is beautiful.
-- Harry Emerson Fosdick -
Art is not to do with the practical side of making a living. It's to live a fuller human life.
-- Henry Moore -
Few have heard of Fra Luca Pacioli, the inventor of double-entry bookkeeping; but he has probably had much more influence on human life than has Dante or Michelangelo.
-- Herbert J. Muller -
Sports is the toy department of human life.
-- Howard Cosell -
We are only living truly human lives just so far as we are labouring to keep God's commandments; no further.
-- J. I. Packer -
By religion, then, I understand a propitiation or conciliation of powers superior to man which are believed to direct and control the course of nature and of human life.
-- James G. Frazer -
If you consider the contribution of plumbing to human life, the other sciences fade into insignificance.
-- James P. Gorman -
It is a fundamental rule of human life, that if the approach is good, the response is good.
-- Jawaharlal Nehru -
I think for five lives, 10 lives, 15 human lives, we could save a million, two million, 10 million non-human lives.
-- Jerry Vlasak -
I feel now at 53 I have grown into a deeper understanding of what a human life is.
-- John Lennon