“Most people spend their entire lives on a fantasy island called “Someday I’ll””
Book Sometimes you win Sometimes you Learn
Source: Elsewhere
“Most people spend their entire lives on a fantasy island called “Someday I’ll””
Book Sometimes you win Sometimes you Learn
“Death is a problem of the living. Dead people have no problems.”
“The earth belongs to the living, not to the dead.”
24 June 1813
1810s, Letters to John Wayles Eppes (1813)
"On the American Dead in Spain", New Masses (February 14, 1939)
BBC Radio broadcast, Russian service, as quoted in The Listener (15 February 1979).
“Life is for the living.
Death is for the dead.
Let life be like music.
And death a note unsaid.”
Source: The Collected Poems
“Live as long as you please, you will strike nothing off the time you will have to spend dead.”
Book I, Ch. 20
Essais (1595), Book I
“There is
One great society alone on earth:
The noble Living and the noble Dead.”
Bk. XI, l. 393.
The Prelude (1799-1805)
“But I believe that God is overhead
And as life is to the living, so death is to the dead.”
The Two Mysteries (1904).