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Let us live, my Lesbia, and love, and value at one farthing all the talk of crabbed old men. Suns may set and rise again. For us, when the short light has once set, remains to be slept the sleep of one unbroken night.
Catullus84–54 BCV, lines 1–6
- Love
In this world, there is room for everyone. And the good earth is rich and can provide for everyone. The way of life can be free and beautiful, but we have lost the way.
Charlie Chaplin1889–1977The Great Dictator (1940), the barber’s closing speech
- Freedom
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
Life’s gone on as if I’d never lived.
Anton Chekhov1860–1904The Cherry Orchard (1904), Act Four, spoken by FiersIn context
The centre of every man’s existence is a dream.
G. K. Chesterton1874–1936Twelve Types (1903) “Sir Walter Scott”
Let the thunder break on man and beast and bird
And the lightning. It is something to have been.
G. K. Chesterton1874–1936Poems (1917), The Great Minimum
When you have to kill a man, it costs nothing to be polite.
Winston Churchill1874–1965Churchill ended his December 8, 1941 letter to the Japanese Ambassador, declaring that a state of war now existed between the United Kingdom and Japan, with the courtly flourish “I have the honour to be, with high consideration, Sir, Your obedient se
Life creates itself in delirium and is undone in ennui.
ECEmil Cioran1911–1995A Short History of Decay (1949)
Can it really be that for us existence means exile, and nothingness, home?
ECEmil Cioran1911–1995On the Heights of Despair (1934)
It’s not worth the bother of killing yourself, since you always kill yourself too late.
ECEmil Cioran1911–1995The Trouble With Being Born (1973)
Not to be born is undoubtedly the best plan of all. Unfortunately, it is within no one’s reach.
ECEmil Cioran1911–1995The Trouble With Being Born (1973)
I used to ask myself, over a coffin: “What good did it do the occupant to be born?,” I now put the same question about anyone alive.
ECEmil Cioran1911–1995The Trouble With Being Born (1973)
The only subversive mind is the one that questions the obligation to exist; all the others, the anarchist at the top of the list, compromise with the established order.
ECEmil Cioran1911–1995The New Gods (1969)