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That the play is the tragedy, “Man,”
And its hero the Conqueror Worm.
Edgar Allan Poe1809–1849The Conqueror Worm (1843)In context
And the angels, all pallid, and wan,
Uprising, unveiling, affirm
That the play is the tragedy, “Man,”
And its hero the Conqueror Worm.
Edgar Allan Poe1809–1849The Conqueror Worm (1843)In context
And so, all the night-tide, I lie down by the side
Of my darling⁠—my darling⁠—my life and my bride,
In the sepulchre there by the sea,
In her tomb by the sounding sea.
Edgar Allan Poe1809–1849Annabel Lee (1849)In context
- Love
For the half of a century no mortal has disturbed them. In pace requiescat!
Edgar Allan Poe1809–1849The Cask of Amontillado (1846)In context
All investigations of Time, however sophisticated or abstract, have at their true base the human fear of mortality.
Thomas Pynchonborn 1937Against the Day (2006), p. 622
- Time
Cowards fear to die; but courage stout,
Rather than live in snuff, will be put out.
Walter Raleigh1552–1618On the snuff of a candle the night before he died; Raleigh’s Remains, p. 258, ed. 1661
- Courage
The body was born and it will die. But for the soul there is no death.
Ramakrishna1836–1886The Gospel of Sri Ramakrishna (1942), p. 319
Life is just one grand sweet song, so start the music.
Ronald Reagan1911–2004
Grief changes shape, but it never ends. People have a misconception that you can deal with it and say, ‘It’s gone, and I’m better.’ They’re wrong. When the people you love are gone, you’re alone.
Keanu Reevesborn 1964Interview with Dotson Rader, Parade (11 June 2006)
- Emotion
We’re only here for a little while, and you’ve got to have some fun, right? I don’t take myself seriously, and I think the ones that do, there’s some sickness with people like that. That’s why I live in Florida.
Burt Reynolds1936–2018“Burt Reynolds Has Made Mistakes. But He Regrets Nothing.” in The New York Times (23 March 2018). Chosen as the Quote of the Day for 6 September 2018.
- Comedy
Life is the farce we are all forced to endure.
Arthur Rimbaud1854–1891Une Saison en Enfer (A Season in Hell) (1873)
So on we worked, and waited for the light,
And went without the meat, and cursed the bread;
And Richard Cory, one calm summer night,
Went home and put a bullet through his head.
Edwin Arlington Robinson1869–1935Richard Cory (1897)In context
Life must be lived and curiosity kept alive. One must never, for whatever reason, turn his back on life.
Eleanor Roosevelt1884–1962Preface (December 1960) to The Autobiography of Eleanor Roosevelt (1961), p. xix
Only those who are fit to live do not fear to die. And none are fit to die who have shrunk from the joy of life and the duty of life. Both life and death are parts of the same great adventure.
Theodore Roosevelt1858–1919The Great Adventure (vol. 19 of The Works of Theodore Roosevelt, national ed.), chapter 1, opening sentences, p. 243 (1926). Douglas MacArthur, speech, July 14, 1935, at the annual reunion of veterans of the Rainbow (42d) Infantry Division, World War
In short, in life, as in a football game, the principle to follow is: Hit the line hard; don’t foul and don’t shirk, but hit the line hard!
Theodore Roosevelt1858–1919“The American Boy”, published in St. Nicholas 27, no. 7 (May 1900), p. 574
- Football