Margaret Thatcher (1925–2013) British stateswoman and politician
Speech to Conservative Party Conference (14 October 1988) http://www.margaretthatcher.org/document/107352 <br class="br">Third term as Prime Minister
“To none is life given in freehold; to all on lease.”
Book III, line 971 (tr. R. E. Latham)
De Rerum Natura (On the Nature of Things)
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Gianni Sarcone (1962) Italian author, artist, designer, and researcher in visual perception and cognitive psychology
ESOF (2010).
Context: Life, like art, is purposeless and unpredictable. That’s what makes it beautiful and rare! In life, we are given the choice between three paths: utopia, illusion or nonsense. The funny thing is, none of us get the joke.
Vladimir Lenin (1870–1924) Russian politician, led the October Revolution
Collected Works, Vol. 28, p. 98.
Collected Works
“All men do the best they can. But none meet life honestly and few heroically.”
Clarence Darrow (1857–1938) American lawyer and leading member of the American Civil Liberties Union
As quoted in Infidels and Heretics : An Agnostic's Anthology (1929) edited by Clarence Darrow and Wallace Rice, p. 206
“Don't take life too seriously. After all none of us are getting out alive anyway.”
Jill Shalvis (1963) American writer
Source: Simply Irresistible
Nathaniel Branden (1930–2014) Canadian–American psychotherapist and writer
“Mother or Murderer, you have
given or taken life —
Now all is one!”
Edith Sitwell (1887–1964) British poet
"Three Poems of the Atomic Bomb: Dirge for the New Sunrise"
The Canticle of the Rose (1949)