Source: Reason and Hope: Selections from the Jewish Writings of Hermann Cohen (1971), p. 5
1930s, First Inaugural Address (1933)
“I cannot live without books.”
Letter to John Adams (10 June 1815)
1810s
Source: Dictionary of Burning Words of Brilliant Writers (1895), p. 239.
Heathcliff (Ch. XVI).
Source: Wuthering Heights (1847)
Context: Catherine Earnshaw, may you not rest as long as I am living! You said I killed you — haunt me then! The murdered do haunt their murderers, I believe; I know that ghosts have wandered on earth. Be with me always — take any form — drive me mad! Only do not leave me in this abyss where I can not find you! Oh, God! it is unutterable! I can not live without my life! I can not live without my soul!
“Without God, we cannot. Without us, God will not.”
As quoted in If God Be For Us : Sermons on the Gifts of the Gospel (1954), by Robert Edward Luccock, p. 38; this may be a variant translation or paraphrase of an expression in his 169th sermon: "He who created you without you will not justify you without you."
Disputed
“As fish cannot live without water, so guerrillas cannot live without the people.”
With the century, vol. 5
“I cannot look around me without being struck with the analogy observable in the works of God.”
Source: Dictionary of Burning Words of Brilliant Writers (1895), p. 31.
Context: I cannot look around me without being struck with the analogy observable in the works of God. I find the Bible written in the style of His other books of Creation and Providence. The pen seems in the same hand. I see it, indeed, write at times mysteriously in each of these books; thus I know that mystery in the works of God is only another name for my ignorance. The moment, therefore, that I become humble, all becomes right.
“One cannot live without motives. I have no motives left, and I am living.”
The Trouble With Being Born (1973)
Evening reported in Bartlett's Familiar Quotations, 10th ed. (1919).
