Variant: The tragedy in a man’s life is what dies inside of him while he lives.
“The tragedy of life is what dies inside a man while he lives.”
“The tragedy of life is not death but what we let die inside of us while we live.”
Variant: Death is not the greatest loss in life. The greatest loss is what dies inside while still alive. Never surrender.
“Death is not the greatest loss in life. The greatest loss is what dies within us while we live.”
Quoted in History of Sikh Struggles (1989) by Gurmit Singh, p. 189.
Il n'y a pour l'homme que trois événements: naître, vivre et mourir. Il ne se sent pas naître, il souffre à mourir, et il oublie de vivre.
Aphorism 48
Les Caractères (1688), De l'Homme
Source: Shadow of the Hegemon
In a public lecture at Bangalore in 1934, from [Singh, R, 2010, Letters to the Editor: Indian scientists vs. science and religion, http://www.scienceandculture-isna.org/july-aug10/Letter%20to%20editors.pdf, Science and Culture, 76, 7-8, 206]
“Man dies in despair while the Spirit dies in ecstasy.”
Source: Seraphita (1835), Ch. 3: Seraphita - Seraphitus.
