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Knowledge by suffering entereth,
And life is perfected by death.
Elizabeth Barrett Browning1806–1861Poems (1844)
- Knowledge
I love thee with the breath,
Smiles, tears, of all my life!⁠—and, if God choose,
I shall but love thee better after death.
Elizabeth Barrett Browning1806–1861How Do I Love Thee? (1850), Sonnets from the Portuguese (1850), No. XLIIIIn context
- Love
I count life just a stuff
To try the soul’s strength on.
Robert Browning1812–1889Men and Women (1855)
Have you found your life distasteful?
My life did and does smack sweet.
Robert Browning1812–1889“At the ‘Mermaid’” (1876)
We’re all going to die, all of us, what a circus! That alone should make us love each other but it doesn’t. We are terrorized and flattened by trivialities, we are eaten up by nothing.
Charles Bukowski1920–1994The Captain is Out to Lunch and the Sailors have taken over the Ship (1998)
- Love
I have to fight every single day to live my true life.
Sandra Bullockborn 1964Parade interview (2009)
In the name of Hippocrates, doctors have invented the most exquisite form of torture ever known to man: survival.
Luis Buñuel1900–1983Mon Dernier soupir (My Last Sigh, 1983)
- Health
So he passed over, and all the trumpets sounded for him on the other side.
John Bunyan1628–1688The Pilgrim’s Progress, Part II (1684), the passing of Mr. Valiant-for-Truth
One of the strange things about living in the world is that it is only now and then one is quite sure one is going to live forever and ever and ever.
Frances Hodgson Burnett1849–1924The Secret Garden (1911), Chapter XXIIn context
Cease, Man, to mourn, to weep, to wail; enjoy thy shining hour of sun;
We dance along Death’s icy brink, but is the dance less full of fun?
Richard Francis Burton1821–1890The Kasîdah of Hâjî Abdû El-Yezdî (1870)
They never fail who die
In a great cause.
Lord Byron1788–1824Marino Faliero, Act II, Scene 2, reported in Bartlett’s Familiar Quotations, 10th ed. (1919).
- Failure
The dust we tread upon was once alive.
Lord Byron1788–1824Sardanapalus (1821), Act IV, scene 1.
It is easier to find men who will volunteer to die, than to find those who are willing to endure pain with patience.
Julius Caesar100–44 BC
But this we may positively state, that nobody has made any progress in the school of Christ unless he cheerfully looks forward to the day of his death and to the day of the final resurrection.
John Calvin1509–1564Golden Booklet of the True Christian Life (1551), Page 78.
- Christianity
We must be willing to get rid of the life we’ve planned, so as to have the life that is waiting for us.
Joseph Campbell1904–1987A Joseph Campbell Companion: Reflections on the Art of Living (1991), p. 18
- Change