“The ways we miss our lives are life.”
"A Girl in a Library," line 92
The Seven-League Crutches (1951)
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poet, critic, novelist, essayist 1914–1965Related quotes
“Our lives are defined by opportunities, even the ones we miss.”
Eric Roth (1945) American screenwriter
Source: The Curious Case of Benjamin Button Screenplay
“… Dreams come to tell us something about our lives that we are missing.”
James Redfield book The Celestine Prophecy
Source: The Celestine Prophecy
George Stack (1946) Irish Roman Catholic archbishop
Heart Talk : Archbishop George Stack https://www.shalomworld.org/episode/archbishop-george-stack (4 March 2018)
Isabel II do Reino Unido (1926–2022) queen of the UK, Canada, Australia, and New Zealand, and head of the Commonwealth of Nations
During a speech at Lambeth Palace, 15/02/2012. Quoted on royal website http://www.royal.gov.uk/LatestNewsandDiary/Speechesandarticles/2012/TheQueensspeechatLambethpalace15February2012.aspx
Ludwig Wittgenstein (1889–1951) Austrian-British philosopher
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Der Tod ist kein Ereignis des Lebens. Den Tod erlebt man nicht. Wenn man unter Ewigkeit nicht unendliche Zeitdauer, sondern Unzeitlichkeit versteht, dann lebt der ewig, der in der Gegenwart lebt. Unser Leben ist ebenso endlos, wie unser Gesichtsfeld grenzenlos ist.
1920s, Tractatus Logico-Philosophicus (1922)
Variant: Death is not an event of life. Death is not lived through.
If by eternity is understood not endless temporal duration but timelessness, then he lives eternally who lives in the present.
Our life is endless in the way that our visual field is without limit.
