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We shall rest. We shall hear the angels. We shall see heaven shining like a jewel. We shall see all evil and all our pain sink away in the great compassion that shall enfold the world. Our life will be as peaceful and tender and sweet as a caress. I have faith; I have faith.
Anton Chekhov1860–1904Uncle Vanya (1897), Act IV, spoken by SoniaIn context
- Faith
- Hope
When real life is wanting one must create an illusion. It is better than nothing.
Anton Chekhov1860–1904Uncle Vanya (1897), Act II, spoken by VoitskiIn context
- Truth & Lies
If only I could live the rest of my life in some new way! If I could only wake some still, bright morning and feel that life had begun again; that the past was forgotten and had vanished like smoke.
Anton Chekhov1860–1904Uncle Vanya (1897), Act IV, spoken by VoitskiIn context
- Change
I looked upon man’s days, and found a grey
Shadow. And this thing more I surely say,
That those of all men who are counted wise,
Strong wits, devisers of great policies,
Do pay the bitterest toll. Since life began,
Hath there in God’s eye stood one happy man?
Fair days roll on, and bear more gifts or less
Of fortune, but to no man happiness.
Euripides481–407 BCMedea (431 BC), Part 2, spoken by MessengerIn context
- Happiness
- Wisdom
Good God!⁠—people don’t do such things.
Henrik Ibsen1828–1906Hedda Gabler (1890), Act Fourth, spoken by BrackIn context
You can find something better than death everywhere
Brothers GrimmGrimms’ Fairy Tales (1812–1815), The Bremen Town-MusiciansIn context
- Hope
Life’s gone on as if I’d never lived.
Anton Chekhov1860–1904The Cherry Orchard (1904), Act Four, spoken by FiersIn context
When everyone is dead the Great Game is finished. Not before.
Rudyard Kipling1865–1936Kim (1901), Chapter XIIIn context
- Politics
He knelt by the bed and bent over her, draining their last moment to its lees; and in the silence there passed between them the word which made all clear.
Edith Wharton1862–1937The House of Mirth (1905), Book Two, Chapter 14In context
- Love
I have tried hard⁠—but life is difficult, and I am a very useless person. I can hardly be said to have an independent existence. I was just a screw or a cog in the great machine I called life, and when I dropped out of it I found I was of no use anywhere else.
Edith Wharton1862–1937The House of Mirth (1905), Book Two, Chapter 12In context
- Failure
We love this kind of death for Allah’s cause as much as you like to live.
Osama bin Laden1957–2011Interview conducted by Peter Arnett in Afghanistan in 1997. Transcript of Osama bin Laden [television] interview by Peter Arnett, March 1997, Reported in Pierre-André Taguieff, Rising from the Muck: The New Anti-Semitism in Europe, translated …
- Religion
In the sweat of thy face shalt thou eat bread, till thou return unto the ground; for out of it wast thou taken: for dust thou art, and unto dust shalt thou return.
The Bible (King James Version)Genesis 3:19 (KJV)In context
- Work
Whoso sheddeth man’s blood, by man shall his blood be shed
The Bible (King James Version)Genesis 9:6 (KJV)In context
- Justice
Yea, though I walk through the valley of the shadow of death, I will fear no evil: for thou art with me; thy rod and thy staff they comfort me.
The Bible (King James Version)Psalms (1611), Psalm 23:4 (KJV)In context
- Faith
- Fear
Vanity of vanities, saith the Preacher, vanity of vanities; all is vanity.
The Bible (King James Version)Ecclesiastes 1:2 (KJV)In context
- Philosophy