The Jewish Wisdom Database

Woe to him that toils all his life to comfort his heirs by his death!

A man is more concerned about the loss of his money than of his days; yet his money does not help and his days will never return.

Who guards his mouth preserves his life.

There is no remedy for a man who starts looking upon life with unrelieved pessimism.

Who keeps a commandment keeps his life.

Great is repentance, for it reaches the Throne of Glory;... for it brings Redemption;...for it lengthens a man's life.

Three keys are in God's hands, never delivered to an angel: one is of the resurrection of the dead.

In my life of vanity I have seen everything: the righteous man perishing in righteousness, and the wicked man living long in his evil-doing.

The righteous are greater in death than in life.

No righteous man passes away before one like him is created.

When a righteous man is born, it is a boon to the world; when one dies it is a bane.

My days are like a passing shadow and I wither away like the grass.

Man is just a breath whose days are as a passing shadow.

To stop thinking means to stop living.

Draw from the past, live in the present, work for the future!

Wine is as good as life to Man, if you drink it in its proper measure.

This world is like an anteroom of the world to come.

God has created two worlds with a frontier between: one for deeds and the other for rewards.

This world is a raging ocean and you should imagine yourself always in a ship at sea.

There is no good thing in this world which will not be better in the next.

A young man has to live and an old man wants to.

Why are our days numbered and not, say lettered?

Life is full of misery, loneliness, and suffering - and it's all over much too soon.

My one regret in life is that I am not someone else.

I never think of the future - it comes soon enough.