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Be sure the safest rule is that we should not dare to live in any scene in which we dare not die.
Lewis Carroll1832–1898Sylvie and Bruno (1889), Preface
Here he lies where he longed to be;
Home is the sailor, home from sea,
And the hunter home from the hill.
Robert Louis Stevenson1850–1894Requiem (1887), Underwoods (1887)In context
Is all our Life, then, but a dream
Seen faintly in the golden gleam
Athwart Time’s dark resistless stream?
Lewis Carroll1832–1898Sylvie and Bruno (1889)
- Time
The first lesson a revolutionary must learn is that he is a doomed man. Unless he understands this, he does not grasp the essential meaning of his life.
Huey P. Newton1942–1989Revolutionary Suicide (1973), p. 3
It is entirely conceivable that life’s splendour forever lies in wait about each one of us in all its fullness, but veiled from view, deep down, invisible, far off.
Franz Kafka1883–1924The Diaries of Franz Kafka 1910-1923 (1948) (18 October 1921)
This life of yours which you are living is not merely a piece of this entire existence, but in a certain sense the whole; only this whole is not so constituted that it can be surveyed in one single glance.
Erwin Schrödinger1887–1961My View of the World (written 1925, published 1961)
- Philosophy
Life is a gift horse in my opinion.
J. D. Salinger1919–2010Teddy (1953)
Life is the farce we are all forced to endure.
Arthur Rimbaud1854–1891Une Saison en Enfer (A Season in Hell) (1873)
After my death, the molecules of my being will return to the earth and sky. They came from the stars. I am of the stars.
Charles Lindbergh1902–1974Autobiography of Values (1978)
- Nature
We are always living in the final days. What have you got? A hundred years or much, much less until the end of your world.
Neil Gaimanborn 1960Signal to Noise (1992)
- Time
The truest lengthening of life is to live while we live, wasting no time but using every hour for the highest ends. So be it this day.
Charles Spurgeon1834–1892Faith’s Checkbook (1888), entry for June 22.
- Time
We should not mourn for men of high ideals. Rather we should rejoice that we had the privilege of having had them with us, to inspire us by their radiant personalities.
Indira Gandhi1917–1984Speech presenting Martin Luther King’s Nehru Award to Coretta Scott King, New Delhi (24 January 1969)
- Inspiration
Life is not a series of gig-lamps symmetrically arranged; life is a luminous halo, a semi-transparent envelope surrounding us from the beginning of consciousness to the end.
Virginia Woolf1882–1941The Common Reader (1925), “Modern Fiction”
When artists create pictures and thinkers search for laws and formulate thoughts, it is in order to salvage something from the great dance of death, to make something that lasts longer than we do.
Hermann Hesse1877–1962Narcissus and Goldmund (1930)
- Art
All of us have to learn how to invent our lives, make them up, imagine them. We need to be taught these skills; we need guides to show us how. If we don’t, our lives get made up for us by other people.
Ursula K. Le Guin1929–2018The Operating Instructions in The Wave in the Mind: Talks and Essays on the Writer, the Reader, and the Imagination (2004)
- Education