“I think that it would be less difficult to live eternally than to be deprived of sleep throughout life.”
Letter to A.S. Suvorin (December 9, 1890)
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“I was sleep-deprived, and I misspoke.”
Hillary Clinton (1947) American politician, senator, Secretary of State, First Lady
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Presidential campaign (January 20, 2007 – 2008)
“What do we live for, if it is not to make life less difficult to each other?”
George Eliot book Middlemarch
Middlemarch (1871)
Context: What do we live for, if it is not to make life less difficult to each other? I cannot be indifferent to the troubles of a man who advised me in my trouble, and attended me in my illness.
“I drink much less than most people think, and I think much more than most people would believe.”
Hunter S. Thompson (1937–2005) American journalist and author
Source: Proud Highway: Saga of a Desperate Southern Gentleman, 1955-1967
“I cannot be content with less than heaven;
Living, and comprehensive of all life.”
Festus (1839)
Context: I cannot be content with less than heaven;
Living, and comprehensive of all life.
Thee, universal heaven, celestial all;
Thee, sacred seat of intellective time;
Field of the soul's best wisdom: home of truth,
Star-throned.
“I think that's easier to read. Pardon me. Less difficult to read.”
Larry Wall (1954) American computer programmer and author, creator of Perl
[199710120226.TAA06867@wall.org, 1997]
Usenet postings, 1997
Isaac Asimov (1920–1992) American writer and professor of biochemistry at Boston University, known for his works of science fiction …
“I had rather live and love where death is king, than have eternal life where love is not.”
Robert G. Ingersoll (1833–1899) Union United States Army officer
Paraphrased variant: I would rather live and love where death is king than have eternal life where love is not.
At A Child's Grave (1882)
Context: No man, standing where the horizon of a life has touched a grave, has any right to prophesy a future filled with pain and tears. It may be that death gives all there is of worth to life. If those we press and strain against our hearts could never die, perhaps that love would wither from the earth. Maybe this common fate treads from out the paths between our hearts the weeds of selfishness and hate, and I had rather live and love where death is king, than have eternal life where love is not.
Angelo Vulpini (2003) Venezuelan recording artist
Source: Posted on instagram @angelovulpini, September 2nd, 2021.
https://www.instagram.com/p/CTVVtsfrRvh/