Herbert Giles book A History of Chinese Literature
"The Hung Lou Mêng", p. 368
A History of Chinese Literature (1901)
Herbert Giles book A History of Chinese Literature
"The Hung Lou Mêng", p. 368
A History of Chinese Literature (1901)
“Most people die at 25 and aren’t buried until they’re 75.”
Benjamin Franklin (1706–1790) American author, printer, political theorist, politician, postmaster, scientist, inventor, civic activist, …
Aldous Huxley (1894–1963) English writer
John Rivers in The Genius and the Goddess (1955)
Context: You can't worship a spirit in spirit, unless you do it now. Wallowing in the past may be good literature. As wisdom, it's hopeless. Time Regained is Paradise Lost, and Time Lost is Paradise Regained. Let the dead bury their dead. If you want to live at every moment as it presents itself, you've got to die to every other moment.
“One of those heavenly days that cannot die.”
William Wordsworth (1770–1850) English Romantic poet
Nutting.
Bartlett's Familiar Quotations, 10th ed. (1919)
Samuel Beckett book Molloy
Molloy (1951)
Context: My life, my life, now I speak of it as of something over, now as of a joke which still goes on, and it is neither, for at the same time it is over and it goes on, and is there any tense for that? Watch wound and buried by the watchmaker, before he died, whose ruined works will one day speak of God, to the worms.
James Russell Lowell (1819–1891) American poet, critic, editor, and diplomat
Garfield (24 September 1881)
“Time passeth swift away;
Our life is frail, and we may die to-day.”
Christopher Marlowe Tamburlaine
Mycetes, Act I, scene i, line 68
Tamburlaine (c. 1588)