Why are people more appalled at what they term an unnatural form of dying than by an unnatural form of living?
No one wants to live in a wheelchair unable to talk, only winking once for yes and twice for no. It's perfectly reasonable that there will come a point where the balance of judgment of life over death swings the other way.
You cannot know a man's life before the man has died, then only can you call it good or bad.
There's no repentance in the grave.
The best way to judge a life is to ask yourself, "Did I make the best use of the time I had?
You cannot judge the value of a life by its length.
Every action we take has consequences, Vin," Kelsier said. "I've found that in both Allomancy and life, the person who can best judge the consequences of their actions will be the most successful.
Censors are dead men set up to judge between life and death. For no live, sunny man would be a censor, he'd just laugh.
There is an ancient saying among men that you cannot thoroughly understand the life of mortals before the man has died, then only can you call it good or bad.
The Greeks said grandly in their tragic phrase, 'Let no one be called happy till his death;' to which I would add, 'Let no one, till his death, be called unhappy.'
Those who claim to have had happy lives seem to be silly fools.
When I say to you, sister-woman, 'You out of order', that isn't an attack on you. I know what I'm looking at. I'm looking at your life, and I see what's there.
The importance of the facts testified, and their relations to the affairs of the soul, and the life to come, can make no difference in the principles or the mode of weighing the evidence.
There's no such thing as a normal life. Some lives are just more interesting than others, and we shouldn't judge people for being boring.
In every age the wisest have passed the identical judgment on life: it is worthless.
Evil is short lived. Never judge of the whole round of life by the mere segment you can see. The whole is, in the end, perfect.
Life is constantly weighing us in very sensitive scales, and telling every one of us precisely what his real weight is to the last grain of dust.
Life is judged with all the blindness of life itself.
Old age is the verdict of life.
When someone is 90, and you've seen their entire life, you just think you know everything about them and that they must live a straight-laced life.
Think about the metric by which your life will be judged, and make a resolution to live every day so that in the end, your life will be judged a success.
There is an ancient saying, famous among men, that thou shouldst not judge fully of a man's life before he dieth, whether it should be called blest or wretched.
I think kids should have a mentor and a role model, but that they shouldn't take one person's opinion to be what we call final assessment or judgment about how life is supposed to be.
I'm only going to stand before God and give an account for my life, not for somebody else's life. If I have a bad attitude, then I need to say there's no point in me blaming you for what's wrong in my life.
