“An evil and foolish and intemperate and irreligious life should not be called a bad life, but rather, dying long drawn out.”

—  Democritus

Source Book in Ancient Philosophy (1907), The Golden Sayings of Democritus

Adopted from Wikiquote. Last update Sept. 14, 2021. History

Help us to complete the source, original and additional information

Do you have more details about the quote "An evil and foolish and intemperate and irreligious life should not be called a bad life, but rather, dying long drawn …" by Democritus?
Democritus photo
Democritus81
Ancient Greek philosopher, pupil of Leucippus, founder of t…

Related quotes

“Foolish: It's all foolish. Life is a farce— a stupid, sickening farce played out by fools.”

David Gemmell book The King Beyond the Gate

Source: Drenai series, The King Beyond the Gate, Ch. 16

William Saroyan photo

“The purpose of my life is to put off dying as long as possible.”

William Saroyan (1908–1981) American writer

My Heart's in the Highlands (1939)

Darren Shan photo

“Real life's nasty. It's cruel. It doesn't care about heroes and happy endings and the way things should be. In real life, bad things happen. People die. Fights are lost. Evil often wins.”

Darren Shan (1972) Irish writer of English-language fiction under pen name, real name Darren O'Shaughnessy

Seneca the Younger photo

“But how foolish it is to set out one’s life, when one is not even owner of the morrow!”

Seneca the Younger book Epistulae morales ad Lucilium

Epistulae Morales ad Lucilium (Moral Letters to Lucilius), Letter CI: On the Futility of Planning Ahead

Norman Vincent Peale photo

“Optimism is a philosophy based on the belief that basically life is good, that, in the long run, the good in life overbalances the evil.”

Norman Vincent Peale (1898–1993) American writer

Have a Great Day (1986), p. 14

Erik Naggum photo

“Life is too long to be good at C++ – if you had spent all that time to become good at it, you would essentially have to work with it, too, to get back the costs, and that would just be some long, drawn-out torture.”

Erik Naggum (1965–2009) Norwegian computer programmer

Re: &quot;Well, I want to switch over to replace EMACS LISP with Guile.&quot; http://groups.google.com/group/comp.lang.lisp/msg/922b65c2b29cc095 (Usenet article). <br class="br">Usenet articles, C++

Will Durant photo

“Life is that which can hold a purpose for three thousand years and never yield. The individual fails, but life succeeds. The individual is foolish, but life holds in its blood and seed the wisdom of generations. The individual dies, but life, tireless and undiscourageble, goes on, wondering, longing, planning, trying, mounting, longing.”

Will Durant (1885–1981) American historian, philosopher and writer

Source: Fallen Leaves (2014), Ch. 5 : On Death

Gustave Flaubert photo

“The most glorious moments in your life are not the so-called days of success, but rather those days when out of dejection and despair you feel rise in you a challenge to life, and the promise of future accomplishments.”

Gustave Flaubert (1821–1880) French writer (1821–1880)

Philip K. Dick photo

“Drug misuse is not a disease, it is a decision, like the decision to step out in front of a moving car. You would call that not a disease but an error in judgement. When a bunch of people begin to do it, it is a social error, a life-style. In this particular life-style the motto is “Be happy now because tomorrow you are dying,” but the dying begins almost at once, and the happiness is a memory.”

Philip K. Dick book A Scanner Darkly

Author’s Note (pp. 276-277)
A Scanner Darkly (1977)

Henry Miller photo

“Life, as it is called, is for most of us one long postponement.”

Henry Miller (1891–1980) American novelist

"The Enormous Womb", p. 96
The Wisdom of the Heart (1941)

Related topics