“[T]o anyone who weeps, life has some importance.”
Heimsljós (World Light) (1940), Book One: The Revelation of the Deity
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Atómstöðin (The Atom Station) (1948)
“[T]hose who do not love [life] are unworthy of it.”
The Story of My Life (trans. Sartarelli/Hawkes 2001), Preface, p. 10
Memoirs (trans. Machen 1894), book 1, Preface http://etext.library.adelaide.edu.au/c/casanova/c33m/preface2.html (I hate death; for, happy or miserable, life is the only blessing which man possesses, and those who do not love it are unworthy of it.)
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“[T]hey who do not love [life] do not deserve it.”
History of My Life (trans. Trask 1967), 1997 reprint, Preface, p. 35
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“[T]here are women who are for all your "times of life."”
They're the most wonderful sort.
Book V, ch. III.
The Ambassadors (1903)
“How can anyone see the only way the world can be saved and not be forced to weep?”
The Last Temptation of Christ (1951)
“O love! O love!
Be with us always
We who will perish salute death
Life alone goes on!”
O caritas, O caritas
nobis semper sit amor
mos perituri mortem salutamus — ah, ah
sola resurgit vita
O caritas, O caritas
nobis semper sit amor
mos perituri mortem salutamus — ah, ah
sola resurgit vita
"O' Caritas" (co-written with Andreas Toumazis and Jeremy Taylor)
Song lyrics, Catch Bull at Four (1972)