“The tragedy of life is what dies inside a man while he lives.”
Albert Einstein (1879–1955) German-born physicist and founder of the theory of relativity
“Man dies in despair while the Spirit dies in ecstasy.”
— Honoré de Balzac, book Séraphîta
Source: Seraphita (1835), Ch. 3: Seraphita - Seraphitus.
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“The tragedy of life is what dies inside a man while he lives.”
Albert Schweitzer (1875–1965) French-German physician, theologian, musician and philosopher
Variant: The tragedy in a man’s life is what dies inside of him while he lives.
“The man who dies thus rich dies disgraced.”
Andrew Carnegie (1835–1919) American businessman and philanthropist
Source: Wealth, 1889, p. 664
Stephen Jay Gould (1941–2002) American evolutionary biologist
Source: Full House (1996), p. 47
“In any man who dies there dies with him,
his first snow and kiss and fight.”
Yevgeny Yevtushenko (1932–2017) Russian poet, film director, teacher
И если умирает человек,
с ним умирает первый его снег,
и первый поцелуй, и первый бой...
"People" (1961), line 12; Robin Milner-Gulland and Peter Levi (trans.) Selected Poems (London: Penguin, 2008) p. 85.
“Music, once admitted to the soul, becomes a sort of spirit, and never dies.”
Edward Bulwer-Lytton (1803–1873) English novelist, poet, playwright, and politician
“The man recovered of the bite,
The dog it was that died.”
Oliver Goldsmith book The Vicar of Wakefield
Source: The Vicar of Wakefield (1766), Ch. 17, An Elegy on the Death of a Mad Dog, st. 8.
Rumi (1207–1273) Iranian poet
"I Died as a Mineral", as translated in The Mystics of Islam (1914) edited by Reynold Alleyne Nicholson, p. 125
Variant translation: Originally, you were clay. From being mineral, you became vegetable. From vegetable, you became animal, and from animal, man. During these periods man did not know where he was going, but he was being taken on a long journey nonetheless. And you have to go through a hundred different worlds yet.
As quoted in Multimind (1986) by Robert Ornstein
Context: I died as a mineral and became a plant,
I died as plant and rose to animal,
I died as animal and I was Man.
Why should I fear? When was I less by dying?
Yet once more I shall die as Man, to soar
With angels blest; but even from angelhood
I must pass on: all except God doth perish.
When I have sacrificed my angel-soul,
I shall become what no mind e'er conceived.
Oh, let me not exist! for Non-existence
Proclaims in organ tones, To Him we shall return.
“Every man dies, not every man really lives”
Randall Wallace (1949) American filmmaker
Source: Braveheart