Life Quotes

All this have I proved by wisdom: I said, I will be wise; but it was far from me. That which is far off, exceeding deep, who can find it out?

~ Compton Gage

I applied mine heart to know, and to search, and to seek out wisdom, And the reason of things, And to know the wickedness of folly, even of foolishness and madness: And I find more bitter than death, the woman, whose heart is snares and nets, and her hands as bands-

~ Compton Gage

Your whole being is deeply troubled- personified the vision of a child's purity, lost in the wilderness of an ever-unchanging and imperfect world.

~ Compton Gage

Loneliness is your only companion.

~ Compton Gage

You haven't rewarded evil unto them who were at peace with you; nor you have delivered them that without cause is your enemy. But they want to tread down your soul upon the earth, and lay your honour in the dust.

~ Compton Gage

Many are they that rise up against you. Many there be which say of your soul, ‘’There is no help for you.’’ But the instruments of death is prepared for your cause.

~ Compton Gage

You have not escaped his notice either- you are here by 'a call' not by choice.

~ Compton Gage

You are alone. But you seems not afraid- though you weary with your groaning; wandering far off in the wilderness and your eyes, consumed because of your grief; waxed old while you're still young.

~ Compton Gage

To be a great warrior is not enough. Flesh and blood, however skilled, can be destroyed... you must be more than just a man in minds of your opponents.

~ Compton Gage

I saw under the sun the place of judgement, …that wickedness was there; And the place of righteousness, that iniquity was there. …I said in mine heart, 'Who shall judge the righteous and the wicked:' for there is a time for every purpose and for every work.

~ Compton Gage

It is right that one must come so far to see the world as it is meant to be.

~ Compton Gage

Purity. Serenity... Solitude: What you ought to uphold. But the important thing is whether you believe it.

~ Compton Gage

All things are full of labour; man cannot utter it; the eye is not satisfied with seeing, nor the ear filled with hearing.

~ Compton Gage

There is no new thing under the sun. Is there any thing whereof it may be said, 'See, this is new?' it had been already of old time, which was before us.

~ Compton Gage

Patience! It is not how quickly you run, but how slowly.

~ Compton Gage

You are created invisible spiritually, and invisibility is largely a matter of patience.

~ Compton Gage

We wrestle not against flesh and blood, but against principalities, against powers, against the rulers of the darkness of this world, against spiritual wickedness in high places.

~ Compton Gage

The thing that had been, it is that which shall be; And that which is done is that which shall be done.

~ Compton Gage

To conquer fear, you must become fear.

~ Compton Gage

To conquer fear, you must become fear - you must bask in the fear of the BOOK... and men fear most what they cannot see- The Power of the Book is spiritual.

~ Compton Gage

Death does not wait for you to be ready.

~ Compton Gage

Death is not considerate, or fair.

~ Compton Gage

Today, death is your opponent.

~ Compton Gage

It is not enough to be a man.

~ Compton Gage

The only thing worse than unrealized hope is no hope.

~ Ken Poirot

We carry on not by letting go of the worries that burden us, but by staying true to our hearts & the meaning that surrounds us.

~ Robert Vanleeuwen

We grow not through the words we read or the lessons we see, but through the love we feel & and the paths we lead.

~ Robert Vanleeuwen

The true character of a man is not seen through his choices, but the passion in his heart.

~ Robert Vanleeuwen

Your heart is your life. What keeps you going and what gives you hope. So wherever it leads you, whatever or whoever it lives for. Keep the beat.

~ Robert Vanleeuwen

For there comes a day on which we will see a mirror of judgement; to gaze not on man, but within ourselves. what cometh on that day in you? truth or despair? love or hate?

~ Robert Vanleeuwen

When love begs hatred & sorrow, show it your heart. For what you sow you reap, what you feel you seek.

~ Robert Vanleeuwen

We're all a part of this world, and it's up to us to make this one chance at living - living worth while. But the only way to do that is by doing it together.

~ Robert Vanleeuwen

Devotion to material possession, control or power; is the sole reason for hate. Devotion to the heart ... the sole reason for love.

~ Robert Vanleeuwen

My grief were thoroughly weighed, and my calamity laid in the balances together! For now it would be heavier than the sand of the desert.

~ Compton Gage

What is my strength, that I should hope? Is my strength the strength of stone? Or is my flesh of brass? Is not my help in me.

~ Compton Gage

Though dead is promised to me, when will I slumber, deep? Is there not an appointed time to man upon earth? Are not his days also like the days of an hireling? As a servant earnestly desires the shadow, and as an hireling looks for the reward of his work: So am I made to possess months of vanity, and wearisome nights are appointed to me.

~ Compton Gage

Wherefore is light given to him that is in misery, And life unto the bitter in soul; Which long for death, but it cometh not; And dig for it more than for hid treasures; Which rejoice exceedingly, and are glad, when they can find the grave?

~ Compton Gage

One generation passes away, and another generation cometh forth: but the earth abides for ever.

~ Compton Gage

If I have never had, or worse yet, I have lost the conviction that life (despite all of the blows it wields and the savagery that it spawns) is nonetheless an incalculable privilege, I will have in that single loss forfeited the whole of my life and effectively wiped out any hope that I can or will do anything other than exist.

~ Craig D. Lounsbrough

Life is like a tree, even if it is not always green, it still is colourful and beautiful.

~ Zain Baloch