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Remember me when I am gone away,
Gone far away into the silent land
Christina Rossetti1830–1894Remember (1862)In context
- Love
Does the road wind up-hill all the way?
Yes, to the very end.
Will the day’s journey take the whole long day?
From morn to night, my friend.
Christina Rossetti1830–1894Up-Hill (1861)In context
Philosopher, metaphysician,
Rhymer, brawler, and musician,
Famed for his lunar expedition,
And the unnumbered duels he fought,⁠—
And lover also,⁠—by interposition!⁠—
Here lies Hercule Savinien
De Cyrano de Bergerac,
Who was everything, yet was naught.
Edmond Rostand1868–1918Cyrano de Bergerac (1897), Act V: Cyrano’s Gazette, Scene VI, spoken by CyranoIn context
- Character
It does not do to dwell on dreams and forget to live.
J. K. Rowlingborn 1965Harry Potter and the Sorcerer’s Stone
Our lives teach us who we are.
Salman Rushdieborn 1947Address at Columbia University (1991)
The good life is one inspired by love and guided by knowledge.
Bertrand Russell1872–1970What I Believe (1925)
- Knowledge
- Love
Brief and powerless is Man’s life; on him and all his race the slow, sure doom falls pitiless and dark.
Bertrand Russell1872–1970A Free Man’s Worship (1903)
The best life is the one in which the creative impulses play the largest part and the possessive impulses the smallest.
Bertrand Russell1872–1970Political Ideals (1917)
I believe that when I die I shall rot, and nothing of my ego will survive.
Bertrand Russell1872–1970What I Believe (1925)
Every one of us is, in the cosmic perspective, precious. If a human disagrees with you, let him live. In a hundred billion galaxies, you will not find another.
Carl Sagan1934–1996Cosmos (1980), p. 339
Seymour once said that all we do our whole lives is go from one little piece of Holy Ground to the next.
J. D. Salinger1919–2010Seymour: An Introduction (1959)
Life is a gift horse in my opinion.
J. D. Salinger1919–2010Teddy (1953)
Let me die with the Philistines.
SSamson1118–1078 BCJudges 16:30 (KJV)
We cannot tear a single page from our life, but we can throw the whole book into the fire.
George Sand1804–1876Mauprat, ch. 11 (1837); Matilda M. Hays (trans.) Mauprat (London: E. Churton, 1847) p. 121
Life resembles a novel more often than novels resemble life.
George Sand1804–1876Metella (1833), ch. 1
- Writing