“I cannot live without my life! I cannot live without my soul!”
Emily Brontë book Wuthering Heights
Source: Wuthering Heights
With the century, vol. 5
“I cannot live without my life! I cannot live without my soul!”
Emily Brontë book Wuthering Heights
Source: Wuthering Heights
Elie Wiesel (1928–2016) writer, professor, political activist, Nobel Laureate, and Holocaust survivor
Hope, Despair, and Memory (1986)
“Just as a candle cannot burn without fire, men cannot live without a spiritual life.”
Gautama Buddha (-563–-483 BC) philosopher, reformer and the founder of Buddhism
Hans-Georg Gadamer (1900–2002) German philosopher
Source: "Die Menschen können nicht ohne Hoffnung leben" (one of his last interviews), Rhein-Neckar-Zeitung (February 11, 2002)
“I cannot live without books.”
Thomas Jefferson (1743–1826) 3rd President of the United States of America
Letter to John Adams (10 June 1815)
1810s
Lewis Pugh (1969) Environmental campaigner, maritime lawyer and endurance swimmer
Speaking & Features, Standing Up To Goliath
Hermann Cohen (1842–1918) German philosopher
Source: Reason and Hope: Selections from the Jewish Writings of Hermann Cohen (1971), p. 5
“Love takes off the masks we fear we cannot live without and know we cannot live within.”
James Baldwin (1924–1987) (1924-1987) writer from the United States
“Work without Hope draws nectar in a sieve,
And Hope without an object cannot live.”
Samuel Taylor Coleridge (1772–1834) English poet, literary critic and philosopher
Source: Work Without Hope (1825), l. 9.
Context: Bloom, O ye Amaranths! bloom for whom ye may,
For me ye bloom not! Glide, rich streams, away!
With lips unbrightened, wreathless brow, I stroll:
And would you learn the spells that drowse my soul?
Work without Hope draws nectar in a sieve,
And Hope without an object cannot live.
“Only the dead have discovered what they cannot live without.”
James Richardson (1950) American poet
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Vectors: Aphorisms and Ten Second Essays (2001)