“There are only three events in a man's life; birth, life, and death; he is not conscious of being born, he dies in pain, and he forgets to live”
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“There are only three events in a man's life; birth, life, and death; he is not conscious of being born, he dies in pain, and he forgets to live”
“They that have lived a single day have lived an age”
“We hope to grow old, and we dread old age; that is to say, we love life and flee from death”
“He who is false to the present duty breaks a thread in the loom, and you will see the effect when the weaving of a lifetime is unraveled”
“You must trust and believe in people or life becomes impossible.”
“The true object of all human life is play”
“All my life through, the new sights of nature made me rejoice like a child”
“We are separated from God on two sides; the fall separates us from Him, the tree of ife separates Him from us. ”
“Life has its own hidden forces which you can only discover by living.”
“Repetition is the reality and the seriousness of life”
“There is nothing stable in the world; uproar's your only music”
“A proverb is no proverb to you until life has illustrated it”
“I compare human life to a large mansion of many apartments, two of which I can only describe, the doors of the rest being as yet shut upon me”
“I wish to beleave in immortality, I wish to live with you forever.”
“Newspapers have roughly the same relationship to life as fortune-tellers to metaphysics”
“Habit with its iron sinews, clasps us and leads us day by day”
“No one ever regarded the First of January with indifference. It is that from which all date their time, and count upon what is left. It is the nativity of our common Adam”
“Pain is life, the sharper, the more evidence of life”
“My theory is to enjoy life, but the practice is against it”
“I have spent more than half a lifetime trying to express the tragic moment”