“I have to see a thing a thousand times before I see it once.”
Thomas Wolfe book You Can't Go Home Again
Source: You Can't Go Home Again
Prologue
Flight: A Quantum Fiction Novel (1995)
“I have to see a thing a thousand times before I see it once.”
Thomas Wolfe book You Can't Go Home Again
Source: You Can't Go Home Again
“Cowards die many times before their deaths;
The valiant never taste of death but once.”
William Shakespeare Julius Caesar
Caesar, Act II, scene ii.
Source: Julius Caesar (1599)
“Once you hear something, you can never return to the time before you heard it.”
Jonathan Safran Foer book Everything Is Illuminated
Source: Everything Is Illuminated
Muhammad Ali Jinnah (1876–1948) Founder and 1st Governor General of Pakistan
Address to the League Lucknow session in 1937, following elections held under the Government of India Act, as quoted in Mohammad Ali Jinnah, Founder of Pakistan (1976) by Ziauddin Ahmad Suleri, p. 1
Eleanor Roosevelt (1884–1962) American politician, diplomat, and activist, and First Lady of the United States
William Shakespeare Julius Caesar
Variant: Cowards die many times before their deaths;
The valiant never taste of death but once.
Of all the wonders that I yet have heard,
It seems to me most strange that men should fear;
Seeing that death, a necessary end,
Will come when it will come.
Source: Julius Caesar
Margaret Sanger (1879–1966) American birth control activist, educator and nurse
Source: Margaret Sanger: An Autobiography (1938), Chapter 30, "Now Is the Time for Converse", p. 374.