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I don’t take no stock in dead people.
Mark Twain1835–1910Adventures of Huckleberry Finn (1884), Chapter IIn context
- Comedy
Ever drifting down the stream⁠—
Lingering in the golden gleam⁠—
Life, what is it but a dream?
Lewis Carroll1832–1898Through the Looking-Glass (1871), Chapter XIIIn context
- Poetry
No, it is impossible; it is impossible to convey the life-sensation of any given epoch of one’s existence⁠—that which makes its truth, its meaning⁠—its subtle and penetrating essence. It is impossible. We live, as we dream⁠—alone.
Joseph Conrad1857–1924Heart of Darkness (1899), Part IIn context
The horror! The horror!
Joseph Conrad1857–1924Heart of Darkness (1899), Part IIIIn context
- Fear
‘Mistah Kurtz⁠—he dead.’
Joseph Conrad1857–1924Heart of Darkness (1899), Part IIIIn context
I have wrestled with death. It is the most unexciting contest you can imagine.
Joseph Conrad1857–1924Heart of Darkness (1899), Part IIIIn context
Perhaps all the wisdom, and all truth, and all sincerity, are just compressed into that inappreciable moment of time in which we step over the threshold of the invisible.
Joseph Conrad1857–1924Heart of Darkness (1899), Part IIIIn context
- Truth & Lies
- Wisdom
“Let us learn to show our friendship for a man when he is alive and not after he is dead,” he suggested. “After that my own rule is to let everything alone.”
F. Scott Fitzgerald1896–1940The Great Gatsby (1925), Chapter IXIn context
- Friendship
Don’t you ever get the feeling that all your life is going by and you’re not taking advantage of it?
Ernest Hemingway1899–1961The Sun Also Rises (1926), Book I, Chapter 2In context
- Time
The world breaks every one and afterward many are strong at the broken places. But those that will not break it kills. It kills the very good and the very gentle and the very brave impartially. If you are none of these you can be sure it will kill you too but there will be no special hurry.
Ernest Hemingway1899–1961A Farewell to Arms (1929), Book IV, Chapter XXXIVIn context
- Courage
It is as painful perhaps to be awakened from a vision as to be born.
James Joyce1882–1941Ulysses (1922), Part II, Episode 14 (3 of 3)In context
He was alone. He was unheeded, happy and near to the wild heart of life.
James Joyce1882–1941A Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man (1916), Chapter IVIn context
- Happiness
His soul swooned slowly as he heard the snow falling faintly through the universe and faintly falling, like the descent of their last end, upon all the living and the dead.
James Joyce1882–1941Dubliners (1914), The Dead (2 of 2)In context
By the toll of a billion deaths man has bought his birthright of the earth, and it is his against all comers
H. G. Wells1866–1946The War of the Worlds (1898), Book Two: The Earth under the Martians, Chapter VIIIIn context
- Nature
Isn’t it good just to be alive on a day like this? I pity the people who aren’t born yet for missing it. They may have good days, of course, but they can never have this one.
L. M. Montgomery1874–1942Anne of Green Gables (1908), Chapter XVIn context
- Happiness