“This is my one and only life, and it is a great and terrible and short and endless thing, and none of us come out of it alive”

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Cecelia Ahern156

Irish novelist 1981

Jill Shalvis (1963) American writer

Source: Simply Irresistible

“Records are made to be broken. Someone else will come along and break it [the record of punts returned for touchdowns], and that's great. You're only here for a short time in your life, so just go out and have fun with it.”

Ted Ginn, Jr. (1985) American football wide receiver, kick returner

[Martin, Tim, Ginn's gamebreaking ability boosts No. 1 Ohio State, Associated Press, 2006-10-15, 2007-01-23]

“It is a hard rule of life, and I believe a healthy one, that no great plan is ever carried out without meeting and overcoming endless obstacles that come up to try the skill of man’s hand, the quality of his courage, and the endurance of his faith.”

Donald Wills Douglas Sr. (1892–1981) American businessman

“If the great one found out about my fight with Death, and came to be near me, what good things we might all expect from being in the world. and then around daybreak I knew I had come through, and now at last fell into real sleep — alone, and proud, and alive — now more alive than ever.”

William Saroyan (1908–1981) American writer

Places Where I've Done Time (1972)

“An excess of science will leave none of us alive.”

R. A. Lafferty (1914–2002) American writer

Roadstrum to Puckett, on using crew members to test the lethality of the Siren-Zo, in Ch. 4
Space Chantey (1968)

“There is an ecstasy that marks the summit of life, and beyond which life cannot rise. And such is the paradox of living, this ecstasy comes when one is most alive, and it comes as a complete forgetfulness that one is alive.”

Jack London book Call of the Wild

Source: The Call of the Wild

“Life is short. Art, or something not life, is long, stretching out endless, like concrete worm. Flat, white, unsmoothed by any passage over or across it. Here I stand. But no longer.”

Philip K. Dick book The Man in the High Castle

The Man in the High Castle (1962)

“Love of India was the breath of life with Mr. Tilak and in it he has left to us a treasure, which can only increase, by use. The endless procession of yesterday shows the hold the great patriot had on the masses.”

Bal Gangadhar Tilak (1856–1920) Indian independence activist

Mahatma Gandhi, Selected Letters: Gandhi -Tilak Correspondence, 29 November 2013, MK Gandhi organization http://www.mkgandhi.org/Selected%20Letters/gandhi-tilakcorr.htm,

“Life is just a short period of time in which you are alive.”

Philip Roth book American Pastoral

Source: American Pastoral

“The dead know only one thing, it is better to be alive”

Stanley Kubrick (1928–1999) American film director, screenwriter, producer, cinematographer and editor

“This is my one and only life, and it is a great and terrible and short and endless thing, and none of us come out of it alive”

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