“Nothing endures, not a tree, not love, not even a death by violence.”
John Knowles book A Separate Peace
Gene
Source: A Separate Peace (1959), P. 14
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“Nothing endures, not a tree, not love, not even a death by violence.”
John Knowles book A Separate Peace
Gene
Source: A Separate Peace (1959), P. 14
Johann Gottlieb Fichte (1762–1814) German philosopher
Source: The Way Towards The Blessed Life or the Doctrine of Religion 1806, P. 4
Jorge Luis Borges book The Immortal
"The Immortal", § IV, in The Aleph (1949); tr. Andrew Hurley, Collected Fictions (1998)
Variant: To be immortal is commonplace; except for man, all creatures are immortal, for they are ignorant of death; what is divine, terrible, incomprehensible, is to know that one is immortal.
“If nothing saves us from death, at least love should save us from life”
Pablo Neruda (1904–1973) Chilean poet
Ludwig Wittgenstein (1889–1951) Austrian-British philosopher
Source: Culture and Value (1980), p. 14e
“I'm not afraid of nothing, I just like the challenge, and I love being here.”
LeBron James (1984) American basketball player