The Devil's Dictionary (1911)
“The anguish of suspense made men even desire the arrival of the enemy.”
Boule de Suif (1880)
Context: Life seemed to have stopped short; the shops were shut, the streets deserted. Now and then an inhabitant, awed by the silence, glided swiftly by in the shadow of the walls. The anguish of suspense made men even desire the arrival of the enemy.
Pero la vida es corta:
viviendo, todo falta;
muriendo, todo sobra.
Act III, sc. vii. Translation from Arthur Terry Seventeenth-Century Spanish Poetry (Cambridge: CUP, 1993) p. 118.
La Dorotea (1632)
“Great men whilst living must expect disgraces,
Dead they're ador'd—when none desire their places.”
"The First Epistle of the Second Book of Horace, Imitated", lines 19-20, in Poems (1752), p. 87
“He mourns the dead who lives as they desire.”
Source: Night-Thoughts (1742–1745), Night II, Line 24.
“My friends, judge me by the enemies I have made.”
Speech made on the campaign trail in Portland, Oregon (21 September 1932)
1930s
“I'd rather die while I'm living than live while I'm dead.”
Source: Good Omens: The Nice and Accurate Prophecies of Agnes Nutter, Witch
“Only the dead find peace, only the living desire it.”
Ron English's Fauxlosophy: Volume 2 (2022)
Source: Kill the Dead
“There is only one dream worth having…to live while you are alive, and die only when you are dead.”
From a speech entitled Come September http://ada.evergreen.edu/~arunc/texts/politics/comeSeptember.pdf.
Speeches
Source: The Cost of Living
