Ó grandes e gravíssimos perigos!
Ó caminho de vida nunca certo!
Stanza 105, lines 1–2 (tr. William Julius Mickle)
Epic poetry, Os Lusíadas (1572), Canto I
“I've had a lot of unhappiness in my life — and a lot of happiness. Who doesn't?”
Rita Hayworth (1918–1987) American actress, dancer and director
AP reports, (1 November 1963)
Context: I've had a lot of unhappiness in my life — and a lot of happiness. Who doesn't? Maybe I've learned enough to be able to guide my daughters.
“Life is a journey, you know; and a lot of journeys, you go out, you come back.”
Cat Stevens (1948) British singer-songwriter
From an interview with Yusuf Islam on London Tonight, an ITV (UK) television news programme, 8th December 2009
“O Thou that openest, and no man shuts;
That shut'st, and no man opens — Thee we wait!”
Dinah Craik (1826–1887) English novelist and poet
"April", in Poems (1859)
Context: p>The irrevocable Hand
That opes the year's fair gate, doth ope and shut
The portals of our earthly destinies;
We walk through blindfold, and the noiseless doors
Close after us, for ever.Pause, my soul,
On these strange words — for ever — whose large sound
Breaks flood-like, drowning all the petty noise
Our human moans make on the shores of Time.
O Thou that openest, and no man shuts;
That shut'st, and no man opens — Thee we wait!</p
“But that is what life is like, uncertain, screwed at times but still fun.”
Chetan Bhagat book One Night @ the Call Center
Source: One Night @ the Call Center (2005), P. 283
“A man of action forced into a state of thought is unhappy until he can get out of it.”
John Galsworthy (1867–1933) English novelist and playwright
Maid in Waiting (1931), Ch. 3
“Whether happy or unhappy, life is the only treasure man possesses”
Giacomo Casanova (1725–1798) Italian adventurer and author from the Republic of Venice
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The Story of My Life (trans. Sartarelli/Hawkes 2001), Preface, p. 10
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Variant: [H]appy or miserable, life is the only blessing which man possesses[. ]
