Human Life Quotes - Page 5
Horace (1963). “The Complete Works of Horace”
Grace Aguilar (1858). “The Mother's Recompense: a Sequel to Home Influence”, p.65
George Orwell (2001). “The Complete Novels of George Orwell: Animal Farm, Burmese Days, A Clergyman's Daughter, Coming Up for Air, Keep the Aspidistra Flying, Nineteen Eighty-Four”, p.32, Penguin UK
... the main concern of the fiction writer is with mystery as it is incarnated in human life.
Flannery O'Connor (1969). “Mystery and Manners: Occasional Prose”, p.176, Macmillan
Men honor property above all else; it has the greatest power in human life.
Euripides (2013). “Euripides IV: Helen, The Phoenician Women, Orestes”, p.117, University of Chicago Press
Of human life, the most glorious or humble prospects are alike and soon bounded by the sepulchre.
Edward Gibbon, Francis Parkman, William H. Prescott, Theodore Roosevelt (2012). “The Modern Library Essential World History 4-Book Bundle: The Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire (Abridged); Montcalm and Wolfe; History of the Conquest of Mexico; The Naval War of 1812”, p.1460, Modern Library
First Inaugural Address, delivered 20 January 1953
Bertrand Russell (2004). “Sceptical Essays”, p.217, Psychology Press
Ayn Rand (2009). “We the Living”, p.10, Penguin