13 Sir Thomas Browne Quotes on Life

Sir Thomas Browne quotes on life

11. Thus is man that great and true Amphibium, whose nature is disposed to live not only like other creatures in divers elements, but in divided and distinguished worlds.

27. For the world, I count it not an Inn, but a Hospital, and a place, not to live, but to die in.

29. There is surely a piece of Divinity within us, something that was before the Elements, and owes no homage unto the Sun.

31. We term sleep a death, and yet it is waking that kills us, and destroys those spirits that are the house of life.

33. Half our days we pass in the shadow of the earth; and the brother of death exacteth a third part of our lives.

38. Times before you, when even the living men were Antiquities; when the living might exceed the dead, and to depart this world, could not be properly said, to go unto the greater number.

41. Were the happiness of the next world as closely apprehended as the felicities of this, it were a martyrdom to live.

43. The long habit of living indisposeth us for dying.

50. Darkness and light divide the course of time, and oblivion snares with memory, a great part even of our living beings; we slightly remember our felicities, and the smartest strokes of affliction leave but short smart upon us. Sense endureth no extremities, and sorrows destroy us or themselves. To weep into stones are fables.

52. Life is a pure flame, and we live by an invisible Sun within us.

56. To make an end of all things on Earth, and our Planetical System of the World, he (God) need but put out the Sun.

57. Not to be content with Life is the unsatisfactory state of those which destroy themselves; who being afraid to live, run blindly upon their own Death, which no Man fears by Experience.

65. The created World is but a small Parenthesis in Eternity.