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There is no cure for birth and death save to enjoy the interval.
George Santayana1863–1952Soliloquies in England and Later Soliloquies (1922), “War Shrines”
Happiness is the only sanction of life; where happiness fails, existence remains a mad and lamentable experiment.
George Santayana1863–1952The Life of Reason: The Phases of Human Progress (1905-1906), Vol. I, Reason in Common Sense
- Happiness
Here lies one whose name was writ in water.
John Keats1795–1821Epitaph for himself (1821)
- Fame
Every one of us is, in the cosmic perspective, precious. If a human disagrees with you, let him live. In a hundred billion galaxies, you will not find another.
Carl Sagan1934–1996Cosmos (1980), p. 339
Life is a process of becoming, a combination of states we have to go through. Where people fail is that they wish to elect a state and remain in it. This is a kind of death.
Anaïs Nin1903–1977D. H. Lawrence : An Unprofessional Study (1932)
Knowledge by suffering entereth,
And life is perfected by death.
Elizabeth Barrett Browning1806–1861Poems (1844)
- Knowledge
Be not afraid of life. Believe that life is worth living, and your belief will help create the fact.
William James1842–1910The Will to Believe and Other Essays in Popular Philosophy (1897)
- Faith
Everything was beautiful and nothing hurt.
Kurt Vonnegut1922–2007Slaughterhouse-Five (1969)
The meaning of life is that it is to be lived, and it is not to be traded and conceptualized and squeezed into a pattern of systems.
Bruce Lee1940–1973Striking Thoughts (2000), p. 3
Life is ever lord of Death
And Love can never lose its own.
John Greenleaf Whittier1807–1892Snow Bound, reported in Bartlett’s Familiar Quotations, 10th ed. (1919)
- Love
If my decomposing carcass helps nourish the roots of a Juniper tree or the wings of a vulture-that is immortality enough for me. And as much as anyone deserves.
Edward Abbey1927–1989A Voice Crying in the Wilderness (Vox Clamantis in Deserto) (1990)
No man can have a peaceful life who thinks too much about lengthening it.
Seneca the Younger5 BC–AD 65Epistulae Morales ad Lucilium (Moral Letters to Lucilius), Letter IV: On the terrors of death, Line 4.
What man can you show me who places any value on his time, who reckons the worth of each day, who understands that he is dying daily?
Seneca the Younger5 BC–AD 65Epistulae Morales ad Lucilium (Moral Letters to Lucilius), Letter I: On Saving Time
- Time
For we are mistaken when we look forward to death; the major portion of death has already passed. Whatever years be behind us are in death’s hands.
Seneca the Younger5 BC–AD 65Epistulae Morales ad Lucilium (Moral Letters to Lucilius), Letter I: On Saving Time
A free man thinks of death least of all things; and his wisdom is a meditation not of death but of life.
Baruch Spinoza1632–1677Ethics (1677), Part IV, Prop. LXVII
- Wisdom