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And in the end, it’s not the years in your life that count. It’s the life in your years.
?UnattributedOften credited to Abraham Lincoln
- Age
Life is but a brief moment. The years go by quickly and old age arrives suddenly before we have an inkling. People desire so many things and waste their days in vain. Some yearn for gold, others for power, yet others for glory and a higher station. But when death’s moment nears and they look back at their lives they’ve lived, they realise they’ve been happy only during those moments when they’ve loved.
BVBorje Vahamaki
- Love
A coral tomb makes a quiet grave; and I trust that I and my comrades will find no other.
Jules Verne1828–1905Twenty Thousand Leagues Under the Seas (1870), Part One, Chapter XVIIIIn context
As a well-spent day brings happy sleep, so life well used brings happy death.
Leonardo da Vinci1452–1519The Notebooks of Leonardo da Vinci (1883)
Our life is made by the death of others.
Leonardo da Vinci1452–1519XIV Anatomy, Zoology and Physiology
As a day well spent procures a happy sleep, so a life well employed procures a happy death.
Leonardo da Vinci1452–1519XIX Philosophical Maxims. Morals. Polemics and Speculations.
- Sleep
Is it then so sad a thing to die?
Virgil70–19 BCAeneid (29–19 BC), Book XII, Line 646 (tr. Alexander Thomson)
The gates of hell are open night and day;
Smooth the descent, and easy is the way:
But to return, and view the cheerful skies,
In this the task and mighty labour lies.
Virgil70–19 BCThe Aeneid (29–19 BC), Book VIIn context
Death is better than a vegetating ignorant life; it is better to die on the battle-field than to live a life of defeat.
Swami Vivekananda1863–1902Call to the Nation
This life is short, the vanities of the world are transient, but they alone live who live for others, the rest are more dead than alive.
Swami Vivekananda1863–1902“Our Duty to the Masses”, letter to the Maharaja of Mysore (23 June 1894), Complete Works, vol. 4
- Charity
The man, who in a fit of melancholy, kills himself today, would have wished to live had he waited a week.
Voltaire1694–1778“Cato” (1764)
Life is bristling with thorns, and I know no other remedy than to cultivate one’s garden.
Voltaire1694–1778Letter to Pierre-Joseph Luneau de Boisjermain (21 October 1769)
Everything was beautiful and nothing hurt.
Kurt Vonnegut1922–2007Slaughterhouse-Five (1969)
We are here on Earth to fart around. Don’t let anybody tell you any different.
Kurt Vonnegut1922–2007A Man Without a Country (2005)
- Comedy
If I should ever die, God forbid, I hope you will say, “Kurt is up in heaven now.” That’s my favorite joke.
Kurt Vonnegut1922–2007A Man Without a Country (2005)
- Comedy