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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
To be what we are, and to become what we are capable of becoming, is the only end of life.
Robert Louis Stevenson1850–1894Familiar Studies of Men and Books (1882).
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
Old and young, we are all on our last cruise.
Robert Louis Stevenson1850–1894Virginibus Puerisque and Other Papers (1881)
- Age
The doom and burthen of our life is bound for ever on man’s shoulders, and when the attempt is made to cast it off, it but returns upon us with more unfamiliar and more awful pressure.
Robert Louis Stevenson1850–1894Strange Case of Dr Jekyll and Mr Hyde (1886), Henry Jekyll’s Full Statement of the CaseIn context
For the dead travel fast.
Bram Stoker1847–1912Dracula (1897), Chapter IIn context
The bitterest tears shed over graves are for words left unsaid and deeds left undone.
Harriet Beecher Stowe1811–1896Little Foxes (1865), Ch. 3.
From too much love of living,
From hope and fear set free,
We thank with brief thanksgiving
Whatever gods may be
That no life lives for ever;
That dead men rise up never;
That even the weariest river
Winds somewhere safe to sea.
Algernon Charles Swinburne1837–1909The Garden of Proserpine (1866)In context
The fear of death is more to be dreaded than death itself.
PSPublilius Syrus101–101 BCThe Moral Sayings of Publius Syrus, a Roman Slave, Maxim 511
- Fear
Let your life lightly dance on the edges of Time like dew on the tip of a leaf.
Rabindranath Tagore1861–1941The Gardener (1915), 45
- Time
You have a real life if and only if you do not compete with anyone in any of your pursuits.
Nassim Nicholas Talebborn 1960The Bed of Procrustes: Philosophical and Practical Aphorisms (2010), p. 39
Not one would mind, neither bird nor tree
If mankind perished utterly;
And Spring herself, when she woke at dawn,
Would scarcely know that we were gone.
Sara Teasdale1884–1933There Will Come Soft Rains (1918)In context
- Nature
Man comes and tills the field and lies beneath,
And after many a summer dies the swan.
Alfred, Lord Tennyson1809–1892“Tithonus”, st. 1 (1860)
I cannot rest from travel: I will drink
Life to the lees
Alfred, Lord Tennyson1809–1892Ulysses (1842)In context
- Experience
Death closes all: but something ere the end,
Some work of noble note, may yet be done,
Not unbecoming men that strove with Gods.
Alfred, Lord Tennyson1809–1892Ulysses (1842)In context
- Age
- Motivation & Goals