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I don’t want to end up simply having visited this world.
MOMary Oliver1935–2019New and Selected Poems, Volume 2 (2005), “When Death Comes”
Tell me, what is it you plan to do
with your one wild and precious life?
MOMary Oliver1935–2019New and Selected Poems (1992)
- Motivation & Goals
Still, what I want in my life is to be willing to be dazzled — to cast aside the weight of facts and maybe even to float a little above this difficult world.
MOMary Oliver1935–2019House of Light (1990), “The Ponds”
- Inspiration
Don’t ever give up on life. Life can be so beautiful, especially after you’ve spent a lot of time with it.
Yoko Onoborn 1933Twitter messages, 9 June 2009.
Human life for us is sacred, but we say if any life is to be sacrificed it shall be ours; we won’t do it ourselves, but we will put the enemy in the position where they will have to choose between giving us freedom or giving us death.
Emmeline Pankhurst1858–1928Freedom or Death (1913)
- Freedom
Guns aren’t lawful; nooses give; gas smells awful. So you might as well live.
Dorothy Parker1893–1967Résumé (1926), “Resume” (1926).In context
Ordinary life is pretty complex stuff.
Harvey Pekar1939–2010
This is the Comfort of Friends, that though they may be said to Die, yet their Friendship and Society are, in the best Sense, ever present, because Immortal.
William Penn1644–1718More Fruits of Solitude (1702), nos. 127–134
- Friendship
For the whole earth is the tomb of famous men; not only are they commemorated by columns and inscriptions in their own country, but in foreign lands there dwells also an unwritten memorial of them, graven not on stone but in the hearts of men.
Pericles494–429 BCPericles’ Funeral Oration (431 BC)
- Fame
The hour of departure has arrived, and we go our ways⁠—I to die, and you to live. Which is better God only knows.
Plato429–349 BCDialogues, Apology
Death is not the worst than can happen to men.
Plato429–349 BC
Must not all things at the last be swallowed up in death?
Plato429–349 BCDialogues, Phaedo
The death then of a beautiful woman is unquestionably the most poetical topic in the world, and equally is it beyond doubt that the lips best suited for such topic are those of a bereaved lover.
Edgar Allan Poe1809–1849The Philosophy of Composition (1846), p.122 Line 17
- Poetry
And Darkness and Decay and the Red Death held illimitable dominion over all.
Edgar Allan Poe1809–1849“The Masque of the Red Death” (1842).
The boundaries which divide Life from Death are at best shadowy and vague. Who shall say where the one ends, and where the other begins?
Edgar Allan Poe1809–1849“The Premature Burial” (1844).