lived quotes

He died as he had livedlike a second lieutenant.

- Georges Clemenceau
On the death of General Boulanger, who had shot himself on the grave of his mistress, who had died two months earlier. In La Justice. Quoted in Edgar Holt  The Tiger: The Life of Georges Clemenceau1841^1929 (1976).

Sagest in the council was he, kindest in the hall: Sure we never won a battle'twas Owen won them all. Had he lived, had he lived, our dear country had been free; But he's dead, but he's dead, and 'tis slaves we'll ever be.

-Thomas Osborne Davis
  'Lament for the Death of Owen Roe O'Neil'.

No matter how vital experiencemight be whileyou lived it, no sooner was it ended and dead than it became as lifeless as the piles of dry dust in a school history book.

- Ellen Anderson Gholson Glasgow
In This Our Life, pt.3, ch.9.

Ina real sense, peoplewhohavereadgood literaturehave lived more than people who cannot or will not read.

- S(amuel) I(chiye) Hayakawa
Language in  Action.

Sorrow was all my soul; I scarce believed, Till grief did tell me roundly, that I lived.

- George Herbert
'Affliction (1)', collected in The Temple, Sacred Poems and Private Ejaculations (published posthumously,1633).

Vixere fortes anteAgamemnona Multi; sed omnes illacrimabiles Urgentur ignotique longa Nocte, carent quia vate sacro. Many brave men lived before Agamemnon's time; but theyare all unmourned and unknown, covered by the long night, because they lack their sacred poet.

-Horace full name  Quintus Horatius Flaccus   65
Odes, bk.4, no.9, l.25^8.

Mary lived by wondering what lay round the corner. I lived by knowing there was no corner.

- P(atrick) J(oseph Gregory) Kavanagh
  A Happy Man, ch.12.

It is perfectly true, as philosophers say, that life must be understood backwards.But they forget the other proposition, that it must be lived forwards. And if one thinks over that proposition it becomes more and more evident that life can never really be understood in time simply because at no particular moment can I find the necessary resting-place from which to understand itbackwards.

- So«  ren Aabye Kierkegaard
Journal entry (translated by Alexander Dru,1938).

Had it lived long, it would have been Lilies without, roses within.

- Andrew Marvell
c.1650^1652  'The Nymph Complaining for the Death of her Fawn' (published1681)

Dear World,Iam leaving because Iam bored.IfeelIhave lived long enough.I am leaving you with your worries in this sweet cesspool.Good luck.

- George Sanders
  His suicide note.

Had we lived, I should have had a tale to tell of the hardihood, endurance, and courage of my companions which would have stirred the heart of every Englishman. Theserough notes andourdead bodiesmusttell thetale.

- Robert Falcon Scott
  Message to the public. Quoted in TheTimes,11 Feb1913.

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.

- Henry David Thoreau
  Walden, or Life in theWoods,'Where I Lived, andWhat I Lived For'.

I am dying, as I have lived, beyond my means.

- Oscar Fingal O'FlahertieWills Wilde
  Accepting a glass of champagne shortly before his death. Attributed.