Carl Sandburg Quotes on Life (13 Quotes)

Nearly all the best things that came to me in life have been unexpected, unplanned by me.

A liar is a liar and lives on the lies he tells and dies in a life of lies.

A baby is God's opinion that life should go on.

Every blunder behind us is giving a cheer for us, and only for those who were willing to fail are the dangers and splendors of life.

A baby is God's opinion that life should go on. Never will a time come when the most marvelous recent invention is as marvelous as a newborn baby. The finest of our precision watches, the most super-colossal of our supercargo planes don't compare with a newborn baby in the number and ingenuity of coils and springs, in the flow and change of chemical solutions, in timing devises and interrelated parts that are irreplaceable.

The palings are made of iron bars with steel points that
can stab the life out of any man who falls on them.

Yes, go find the men of clean hands one day and see the life, the memory, the love they have, to stay longer than the plunging sea wets the shores or the fires heave under the crust of the earth.

The rose flesh of life shriveled from all
faces.

To go one day of your life among all men with clean hands,
Clean for the day book today and the record of the after days,
Held at your side proud, satisfied to the last, and ready,
So to have clean hands:
God, it is something,
One day of life so
And a memory fastened till the stars sputter out
And a love washed as white linen in the noon drying.

Time is the coin of your life. It is the only coin you have, and only you can determine how it will be spent. Be careful lest you let other people spend it for you.

My finger-tips are in the valleys and shores of
universal life.

The headlight finds the way
And life is gone from the wet and the welter--
Only an old woman, bloated, disheveled and bleared.

The weeds say life is a white and lovely thing
And the weeds come on and on in irrepressible regiments.