Pt. III, st. 35
The Ballad of Reading Gaol (1898)
“And all the woe that moved him so
That he gave that bitter cry
the wild regrets, and the bloody sweats
None knew so well as I:
For he who lives more lives than one
More deaths than one must die.”
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“For he who lives more lives than one
More deaths than one must die.”
Pt. III, st. 22
The Ballad of Reading Gaol (1898)
Source: The Ballad of Reading Gaol and Other Poems
“I read so I can live more than one life in more than one place.”
Anne Tyler
(1941) American novelist
“Dead people receive more flowers than the living ones because regret is stronger than gratitude.”
Anne Frank
(1929–1945) victim of the Holocaust and author of a diary
“Dead people receive more flowers than the living ones because regret is stronger than gratitude.”
Anne Frank
(1929–1945) victim of the Holocaust and author of a diary
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“No one is so old as to think that he cannot live one more year.”
Nemo enim est tam senex qui se annum non putet posse vivere.
Marcus Tullius Cicero
(-106–-43 BC) Roman philosopher and statesman
section 24 http://www.perseus.tufts.edu/hopper/text?doc=Cic.+Sen.+24&fromdoc=Perseus%3Atext%3A2007.01.0039
Cato Maior de Senectute – On Old Age (44 BC)
“And I knew that it was better to live out one's own absurdity than to die for that of others.”
Variant: And I knew that it was better to live out one's own absurdity than to die for that of others.
Source: Invisible Man (1952), Chapter 25.
Bobby Robson
(1933–2009) English association football player and manager
Jose Mourinho, 2009. http://www.theguardian.com/football/2009/jul/31/sir-bobby-robson-tributes
“It is with regret that I pronounce the fatal truth: Louis must die, so that the country may live.”
Maximilien Robespierre
(1758–1794) French revolutionary lawyer and politician
Original French: Je prononce à regret cette fatale vérité... mais Louis doit mourir, parce qu'il faut que la patrie vive.
Speech to the National Convention http://www.royet.org/nea1789-1794/archives/journal_debats/an/1792/convention_1792_12_03.htm on the judgment of Louis XVI (3 December 1792)