Henry Ward Beecher Quotes

Not on one strand are all life's jewels strung.

I don't believe that life is supposed to make you feel good, or make you feel miserable either. Life is just supposed to make you feel.

Everything has been figured out, except how to live.

Much of the time life is a sort of rhythmic progression of three characters. If one tells oneself that life is like that, one feels it less arbitrary.

I'm not afraid of death. It's the stake one puts up in order to play the game of life.

I think life's an irrational obsession.

The experience of life that you and I have is pretty much a jigsaw puzzle in the box: Day-to-day experiences of disconnected pieces that don't seem to justify the efforts we make each day.

What a writer's message is is totally unimportant. Either he is agreeing with life by affirming, or he is saying life is just a bowl of wormwood.

There is only one meaning of life: the act of living itself.

I've always felt like an alien trapped in a human form. We all do at some time or other; for me it's a permanent state, and I'm still unsure if Earth is a penance or a reward.

The fact that our task is exactly commensurate with our life gives it the appearance of being infinite.

A man can look upon his life and accept it as good or evil; it is far, far harder for him to confess that it has been unimportant in the sum of things.

You are doomed to make choices. This is life's greatest paradox.

'Lost' makes a lot of sense to me, philosophically.

I was always taught to be grateful, and so the question came early: What is there to be grateful for? Why is life supposed to be so good? That's still a question I try to answer all the time.

It's life, man, and life is never easy.

One should not search for an abstract meaning of life ... Life can be made meaningful in a threefold way: first, through what we give to life ... second, by what we take from the world ... third, through the stand we take toward a fate we no longer can change.

We are involved in a life that passes understanding and our highest business is our daily life.

The meaning of life is life.

Understand life's mysteries - as mysteries to be lived.

Ultimately, man should not ask what the meaning of his life is, but rather he must recognize that it is he who is asked.

We come. We go. And in between we try to understand.

Isn't it sad to go to your grave without ever wondering why you were born? Who, with such a thought, would not spring from bed, eager to resume discovering the world and rejoicing to be part of it?

You must understand the whole of life, not just one little part of it. That is why you must read, that is why you must look at the skies, that is why you must sing and dance, and write poems and suffer and understand, for all that is life.

One always dies too soon or too late. And yet, life is there, finished: the line is drawn, and it must all be added up. You are nothing other than your life.