“Half of life is lost in charming others.
The other half is lost in going through anxieties caused by others.
Leave this play. You have played enough.”
The quote "Half of life is lost in charming others. The other half is lost in going through anxieti…" is famous quote attributed to Rumi (1207–1273), Iranian poet.
Source: Anonymous reader point out that quote appears on internet from 2015. Rumi, having died in the 1200s, when the first mention of this quote was around 2015.
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5 December 1919
A Moment's Liberty (1990)
Source: A Writer's Diary
Context: This last week L. has been having a little temperature in the evening, due to malaria, and that due to a visit to Oxford; a place of death and decay. I'm almost alarmed to see how entirely my weight rests on his prop. And almost alarmed to see how intensely I'm specialised. My mind turned by anxiety, or other cause, from its scrutiny of blank paper, is like a lost child – wandering the house, sitting on the bottom step to cry.
“One half of my life has put the other half in the grave.”
La moitié de ma vie a mis l’autre au tombeau.
Chimène, act III, scene iii.
Le Cid (1636)
Source: A Burnt Child (1948), p. 188
“COINCIDENCE You weren’t paying attention to the other half of what was going on.”
context (3) “You Have to Push Him Over”
Stand on Zanzibar (1968)
“Love is the longing for the half of ourselves we have lost.”
pg 233
Source: The Unbearable Lightness of Being (1984), Part Five: Lightness and Weight
“An intelligent person fights for lost causes, realizing that others are merely effects”
Nelly Dean (Ch. VII).
Source: Wuthering Heights (1847)
The Precession of Simulcra, The Hyperreal and the Imaginary
1980s, Simulacra and Simulation (1981)