“How much does a man live, after all?/ Does he live a thousand days, or one only?
For a week, or for several centuries?/ How long does a man spend dying?/ What does it mean to say 'for ever'?”
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Pablo Neruda136
Chilean poet 1904–1973Related quotes
“How unhappy does one have to be before living seems worse than dying?”
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Letter to his son, Kermit, quoted in Theodore Roosevelt by Joseph Bucklin Bishop http://www.trsite.org/content/pages/speaking-loudly (1915) <br class="br">1910s
“That man lives badly who does not know how to die well.”
Seneca the Younger (-4–65 BC) Roman Stoic philosopher, statesman, and dramatist
On Tranquility of the Mind
Julie Anne Peters (1952) American writer
Source: By the Time You Read This, I'll Be Dead
Alexander Graham Bell (1847–1922) scientist and inventor known for his work on the telephone
Bell Telephone Talk (1901)
“It does not matter how long you live, but how well you do it.”
Martin Luther King, Jr. (1929–1968) American clergyman, activist, and leader in the American Civil Rights Movement
Book I, satire i, line 48
Satires (c. 35 BC and 30 BC)