Sylvia Plath (1932–1963) American poet, novelist and short story writer
Source: The Unabridged Journals of Sylvia Plath
Variant: All the lives we could live, all the people we will never know, never will be, they are everywhere. That is what the world is.
Source: The Lazarus Project
Sylvia Plath (1932–1963) American poet, novelist and short story writer
Source: The Unabridged Journals of Sylvia Plath
Bill Bailey (Spanish Civil War veteran) (1910–1995) American labor activist
The Kid from Hoboken: An Autobiography by Bill Bailey (1993)
Mata Amritanandamayi (1953) Hindu spiritual leader and guru
Amritanandamayi's Address Upon Receiving an Honorary Doctorate of Humane Letters from the State University of New York (2010)
“A man living without conflicts, as if he never lives at all.”
Confucius (-551–-479 BC) Chinese teacher, editor, politician, and philosopher
Source: The Analects, Other chapters
Anne Frank (1929–1945) victim of the Holocaust and author of a diary
5 April 1944
The Diary of a Young Girl (1942 - 1944)
Variant: I need to have something besides a husband and children to devote myself to! I don't want to have lived in vain like most people. I want to be useful or bring enjoyment to all people, even those I've never met.