We live ignorant and die in errancy as we lived.
Yif thou wolte lyve frely, lerne to dye gladly.
Well, there's no help for it. Ageing seems to be the only available way to live a long time.
Encased in talent like a uniform, The rank of every poet is well known; They can amaze us like a thunderstorm, Or die so young, or live for years alone.
To live each day as though one's last, never flustered, neverapathetic, neverattitudinizinghere isperfection of character.
For what do we live, but to make sport for our neighbours, and laugh at them in our turn?
For in him we live, and move and have our being.
Whether we live therefore, or die, we are the Lord's.
For to me to live is Christ, and to die isgain.
La eternidad rotativa puede parecer atroz al espectador; es satisfactoria para sus individuos. Libres de malas noticias y de enfermedades, viven siempre como si fuera la primera vez, sin recordar las anteriores. A circular eternity may seem atrocious to the spectator, but it is satisfactory to individuals inside. Free from bad news and disease, theyalways live as if it were the first time, and do not remember previous times.
I am well as long as I live on horsebacksleep out-of- doors, or in a log cabin, and lead in all respects a completely unconventional life. But each time for a few daysI have become civilised, I have found myself rapidly going down again.
If I'd known I was gonna live this long, I'd have taken better care of myself.
Man that isbornof a womanhath but a short timeto live, and is full of misery.
Lord, let me know mine end, and thenumberof mydays: that I may be certified how long I have to live.
Good, to forgive; Best, to forget! Living, we fret; Dying, we live.
To live is like to loveall reason is against it, and all healthy instinct for it.
I live not in myself, but I become Portion of that around me; and to me, High mountains are a feeling, but the hum Of human cities torture.
My sweetest Lesbia, let us live and love, And though the sager sort our deeds reprove, Let us not weigh them. Heaven's great lamps do dive Into their west, and straight again revive, But soon as once set is our little light, Then must we sleep one ever-during night. See Catullus 200:5.
Vivamus, mea Lesbia, atque amemus, rumoresque senum severiorum omnes unius aestimemus assis. Let us live, my Lesbia, and let us love! Let us not give one penny if old men protest and disapprove.
So longe mote ye lyve, and alle proude, Til crowes feet be growen under youre y'.
To begin to live in the present, we must first atone forour past and be finished with it, and we can onlyatone for it by suffering, by extraordinary, unceasing exertion.
Men will wrangle for religion; write for it; fight for itanything but live for it.
We live, as we dreamalone.
Now we know nothing, nothing is richer now Because of all he was.O friend we have loved Must it be thus with you?and if it must be How can men bear laboriously to live?
Comeonyousonsof bitches!Doyouwanttoliveforever? See Frederick the Great 335:33.
People in nutrition do get the idea that theyare going to live to be150. And they never do.
Si l'on vit assez longtemps, on voit que toute victoire se change un jour en de faite. If you live long enough, you'll find that every victory turns into a defeat.
I cannot live withYou It would be Life And Life is over there Behind the Shelf.
A word is dead When it is said, Some say. I say it just Begins to live That day.
We tell ourselves stories in order to live.
Come live with me, and be my love, And we will some new pleasures prove Of golden sands, and crystal brooks: With silken lines, and silver hooks. See Marlowe 553:17, Raleigh 677:98.
None would live past years again, Yet all hope pleasure in what yet remain; And, from the dregs of life, think to receive, What the first sprightly running could not give.
Sen for the deid remeid is none, Best is that we for dede dispone Eftir our deid that lif may we: Timor mortis conturbat me.
My wealth is health and perfect ease; My conscience clear my chief defence; I neither seek by bribes to please, Nor by deceit to breed offence. Thus do I live; thus will I die. Would all did so well as I!
If I could only live at the pitch that is near madness When everything is as it was in my childhood Violent, vivid and of infinite possibility.
Life is too precious to be spent in this weaving and unweaving of false impressions, and it is better to live quietly under some degree of misrepresentation than to attempt to remove it by the uncertain process of letter- writing.
Egbert, is it true that married people live longer? No, it just seems longer.
Live and Let Die.
You cannot be absolutely dumb when you live with a person unless you are an inhabitant of the North of England or the State of Maine.
Only connect! That was the whole of her sermon.Only connect the prose and the passion, and both will be exalted, and human love will be seen at its height. Live in fragments no longer.
We all live with the objective of being happy; our lives
Rascals, would you live for ever? See Daly 251:76.
Cum studio bene vivendi semper conjunxi studium bene dicendi. I have always combined the study of how to live well with the study of how to speak well.
As in a month you've got to die If Ko-Ko tells us true, 'Twere empty compliment to cry 'Long life to Nanki-Poo!' But as one month you have to live As fellow-citizen, This toast with three times three we'll give 'Long life to youtill then!'
Man cannot live on the human plane, he must be either above or below it.
You lost yourability for doing things in childhood It all beganwithyourinability toputonyoursocksand ended by your inability to live.
Glasgow, the sort of industrial city where most people live nowadays but nobody imagines living.
I believe that the scientist is trying to expand absolute truth and the artist absolute beauty, so that I find in art and science, and in an attempt to live a good life, all the religion I want.
I always divide people into two groups. Those who live by what they know to be a lie, and those who live by what they believe, falsely, to be the truth.
He had decided to live forever or die in the attempt, and his only mission each time he went up was to come down alive.
But thou liv'st fearless; and thy face ne'er shows Fortune when she comes, or goes.
Annapurna, towhichwehadgone empty-handed, was a treasure on which we should live the rest of our lives. With this realization we turn the page: a new life begins. There are other Annapurnas in the lives of men.
He who battles with the immortals does not live long, nor do his children prattle about his knees when he has returned from battle.
We live half our lives in Englandthere can't have been anything quite like this sincethe Roman colonists settled in Britain: not the hanging on with one hand, and the other hand full of seas.
The bird, the beste, the fisch eke in the see, They lyve in fredome, euerich in his kynd, And I, a man, and lakkith libertee!
Live all you can; it's a mistake not to. It doesn't so much matter what you do in particular, so long as you have your life. If you haven't had that what have you had?
I thought that writing a detective story would be a wonderful apprenticeship because, whatever people tell you, a crime novel is not easy to write well. As I continued with my craft I became increasingly fascinated by the form and realized that you can use the formula to say something true about men and women and the society in which they live.
It's better to entertain an idea than to take it home to live with you for the rest of your life.
The wing trails like a banner in defeat, No more to use the sky forever but live with famine And pain a few days. 436
The stage but echoes back the public voice. The drama's laws the drama's patrons give, For we, who live to please, must please to live.
All the arguments which are brought to represent povertyasno evil, show ittobe evidentlyagreatevil.You never find people labouring to convince you that you may live very happily upon a plentiful fortune.
I would not give half a guinea to live under one form of government rather than another. It is of no moment to the happiness of an individual.
What should I do, But cocker up my genius, and live free To all delights my fortune calls me to?
But then they danced down the street like dingle- dodies, and Ishambled afteras I've beendoing all my life after people who interest me, because the only people for me are the mad ones, the ones who are mad to live, mad to talk, mad to be saved, desirous of everything at the same time, the ones who never yawn or say a commonplace thing, but burn, burn, burn, like fabulous yellow roman candles exploding like spiders across the stars and in the middle you see the blue centerlight pop and everybody goes 'Awww!'
Never anticipate tomorrow's sorrow; Live always in this paradisal now.
The thing is to find a truth for me, to find the idea for which I can live and die.
I have a dream. I have a dream that my four little children will oneday liveinanationwherethey will not bejudged by the colour of their skin but by the content of their character.
If a man hasn't discovered something he will die for, he isn't fit to live.
Je vis, je meurs; je me br u" le et me noie. I live, I die; I am on fire and I drown.
Il n'y a pour l'homme que trois e ve nements: na|"tre, vivre et mourir. Il ne se sent pas na|"tre, il souffre a' mourir, et il oublie de vivre. There are only three great events for a person: to be born, to liveand to die.He doesnot feel his own birth, he suffers upon death and he forgets to live.
What are days for? Days are where we live. They come, they wake us Time and time over. Theyare to be happy in: Where can we live but days?
Thus did they live:Thus did they love, Repeating only joys above; And Angels were, but with clothes on, Which they would put off cheerfully, To bathe them in the galaxy, Then gird them with the Heavenly zone.
That would have been a nice place, inside an idea, but it wasn't a place to live. It was necessary to live where the idea and the fact collided.
Traditions are lovely thingsto create traditions, that is, not to live off them.
Now hast thou but one bare hour to live, And then thou must be damned perpetually! Stand still, you ever-moving spheres of heaven, That time may cease, and midnight never come. Fair nature's eye, rise, rise, again, and make Perpetual day; or let this hour be but Ayear, a month, a week, a natural day, That Faustus may repent and save his soul! O lente, lente currite, noctis equi: The stars move still, time runs, the clock will strike, The devil will come, and Faustus must be damned. Oh, I'll leap up to my God!Who pulls me down? See, see, where Christ's blood streams in the firmament! One drop would save my soul, half a drop, ah, my Christ.
Difficilis facilis, iucundus acerbus es idem: Nec tecum possum vivere nec sine te. Difficult or easy, pleasant or bitter, you are the same: I cannot live with youor without you.
What one wants in this world isn't so much to'live' as tobe lived, to be used by life for its own purposes.
To live without killing is a thought which could electrify the world, if men were only capable of staying awake long enough to let the idea soak in.
Glaubt es mir!das Geheimnis, um die gr o« Þte Fruchtbarkeit und den gr o« Þten Genuss vom Dasein einzuernten, heiÞt: gef a« hrlich leben! For believe me: the secret for harvesting from existence the greatest fruitfulness and the greatest enjoyment isto live dangerously.
Razors pain you Rivers are damp; Acids stain you; And drugs cause cramp. Guns aren't lawful; Nooses give; Gas smells awful; You might as well live.
We live and learn, but not the wiser grow.
Oh Happiness! our being's end and aim! Good, pleasure, ease, content! whate'er thy name: That something still which prompts th'eternal sigh, For which we bear to live, or dare to die.
Il vaut mieux re" ver sa vie que la vivre, encore que la vivre ce soit encore la re" ver. It's better to dream your life than to live it, and even though you live it, you will still dream it.
If we live inside a bad joke, it is up to us to learn, at best and worst, to tell it well.
ThepoorestHethat isinEnglandhathalifetoliveaswellas the greatest He, and therefore, truly Sirs,Ithink that every man that is to live under a Government ought first, by his own consent, to put himself under that Government.
We live in the great indoors: the vacuum cleaner grazes over the carpet, lowing, its udder a swollen wobble. SeeAusten 43:88.
If all the world and love were young, And truth in every shepherd's tongue These pretty pleasures might me move To live with thee and be thy love. See Marlowe 553:17.
Si nolueris habitare cum turpidis, non habitatis Londonie. If you do not want to live among wicked people, do not live in London.
She can talk beautifully about democracy but doesn't know how to live democracy.
Men don't and can't live by exchanging articles, but by producing them. They don't live by trade, but by work. Give up that foolish and vain title of Trades Unions; and take that of Labourers' Unions.
All decent people live beyond their incomes nowadays, and those who aren't respectable live beyond other peoples'. A few gifted individuals manage to do both.
The people will live on. The learning and blundering will live on. They will be tricked and sold and again sold And go back to the nourishing earth for rootholds.
If I were fierce and bald and short of breath I'd live with scarlet Majors at the Base, And speed glum heroes up the line to death.
En toi je vis, o u' que tu sois absente; En moi je meurs, o u' que je sois pre sent. Tant loin sois-tu, toujours tu es pre sente; Pour pre' s que sois, encore suis-je absent. I live in you, wherever you are, when you are absent; I die in myself wherever I am. No matter how faraway you are, you are always present; And no matter how near you are, I am always absent.
Look not thou on beauty's charming, Sit thou still when kings are arming. Taste not when the wine-cup glistens, Speak not when the people listens, Stop thine ear against the singer, From the red gold keep thy finger, Vacant heart, and hand, and eye, Easy live and quiet die.
'I am a brigand: I live by robbing the rich.' 'I am a gentleman: I live by robbing the poor.'
[This] much curse I must send you, in the behalf of all poets, that while you live, you live in love, and never get favour for lacking skill of a sonnet, and, when you die, your memorydie fromthe earth for want of an epigraph.
Artists are the only people in the world who really live. The others have to hope for heaven.
Most people sell their souls, and live with a good conscience on the proceeds.
Why does my Muse only speak when she is unhappy? She does not, I only listen when I am unhappy When I am happy I live and despise writing For my Muse this cannot but be dispiriting.
People who are always praising the past And especially the times of faith as best Ought to go and live in the Middle Ages And be burnt at the stake as witches and sages.
They have no education, no taste for reading, no housewifery, nor, indeed, any earthly occupation but that ofdressingtheirhair, andadorningtheirbodies.Theyhate walking, and would never go abroad, if they were not stimulated by the vanityof being seen Nothing can be more parsimonious than the economy of these people. They live upon soup and bouille, fish and salad.
It is best to live anyhow, as one may; do not be afraid of marriage with your mother! Many have lain with their mothers in dreams too. It is he to whom such things are nothing who puts up with life best.
Live as long as you may, the first twenty years are the longest half of your life.
One's prime is elusive.You little girls, when you grow up, must be onthealertto recognise your primeat whatever time of your life it may occur.You must live it to the full.
Who live under the shadow of war, What can I do that matters?
One day I wrote her name upon the strand, But came the waves and washe' d it away; Again I wrote it with a second hand, But came the tide, and made my pains his prey. 'Vain man,'said she,'that doest in vain assay A mortal thing so to immortalise, For I my self shall like to this decay, And eke my name be wipe' d out likewise.' 'Not so,'quod I,'let baser things devise To die in dust, but you shall live by fame: My verse your virtues rare shall eternise, And in the heavens write your glorious name. Where when as death shall all the world subdue, Our love shall live, and later life renew.'
We live thetime that a match flickers; we pop the corkof a ginger-beer bottle, and the earthquake swallows us on the instant. Is it not odd, is it not incongruous, is it not, in the highest sense of human speech, incredible, that we should think so highly of the ginger-beer, and regard so little the devouring earthquake?
Every man desires to live long; but no manwould be old.
Sleep; and if life was bitter to thee, pardon, If sweet, give thanks; thou hast no more to live; And to give thanks isgood, and to forgive.
Live and lie reclined On the hills like Gods together, careless of mankind. For they lie beside their nectar, and the bolts are hurled Far below them in the valleys, and the clouds are lightly curled Round their golden houses, girdled with the gleaming world.
Ask me no more: what answer should I give? I love not hollow cheek or faded eye: Yet,O my friend, I will not have thee die! Ask me no more, lest I should bid thee live.
How to Live Well on Nothing aYear.
As long as possible live free and uncommitted. It makes but little differencewhether youare committedtoa farm or the county jail.
Iwenttothewoodsbecause Iwishedto live deliberately, to front only the essential facts of life, and see if I could not learn what it had to teach, and not, when I came to die, discover that I had not lived.
We live and learn, and big mountains are stern teachers.
Les femmes et les hommes ne vivent pas sur le me" me plan. Women and men do not live according to the same design.
But we live like our names and you would have to be colonial to know the difference, to know the pain of history words contain.
Let us all be happy, and live within our means, even if we have to borrow the money to do it with.
I am happiest when I am idle. I could live for months without performing any kind of labour, and at the expiration of that time I should feel fresh and vigorous enough togo right on inthesame way for numerous more months.
But there comes a time in everybody's life when he must decide whether he'll live among human beings or nota fool among fools or a fool alone.
DerTod ist kein Ereignis des Lebens. DenTod erlebt man nicht. Death isnot an event in life: we do not liveto experience death.
The horse that comes from the road, The rider, the birds that range From cloud to tumbling cloud, Minute by minute they change; A shadow of cloud on the stream Changes minute by minute; A horse-hoof slides on the brim, And a horse plashes within it; The long-legged moor-hens dive, And hens to moor-cocks call; Minute by minute they live: The stone's in the midst of all.
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