Source: Girls in Pants: The Third Summer of the Sisterhood
“The dead might as well try to speak to the living as the old to the young.”
One of Ours (1922), Bk. II, Ch. 6
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Willa Cather 99
American writer and novelist 1873–1947Related quotes
The Savage Nation, The Savage Nation (1995- ), 2011(?) (Audio: Michael Savage – Suicide Is Never An Option https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9oIjOjPW2OM&feature=youtu.be&t=1m29s)
2011
Context: Just remember, it's not heroic to kill yourself, and it's a violation of God's Laws.... The way it was explained to me in my tradition is... you are not your own property. You are God's property.... You have no right to commit suicide, don't even think– it's not an option. See, like in America, everything is "choice". "It's your choice." It's NOT your choice. You have no choice, so don't even think about it. It's not your choice to make. Soon enough, God will come for you, okay? Leave it at that. And every time you have a suicidal ideation, just push it away, it's not you. It's the devil trying to put something inside your head. We live in such a sick society, that the demented people who run the mind games on our heads like you to believe that it's your choice whether to commit suicide or not. It's NOT your choice. It's immoral, and that's the end of it. You don't have to ponder everything like it's a choice. You have children, that's all you need to know. What would the world be like for them if you committed suicide, do you have any idea? What you've gotta do is just get back on the road and keep walking, and don't stare at the chasm. That's all. You stand on the edge of a road, look down at the chasm and you'll get dizzy and fall in. So stop staring at the chasm. Get back on the road, and go back down to the meadow, and be with your family. And go on continue the struggle. That's all there is to it. That's your job. Your job is to struggle until you drop dead. That's it. Stop trying to be happy. The day you stop trying to be happy you might have a chance to live.
“Before I became old I tried to live well; now that I am old, I shall try to die well; but dying well means dying gladly.”
Ante senectutem curavi ut bene viverem, in senectute ut bene moriar; bene autem mori est libenter mori.
Seneca the Younger
(-4–65 BC) Roman Stoic philosopher, statesman, and dramatist
Source: Epistulae Morales ad Lucilium (Moral Letters to Lucilius), Letter LXI: On meeting death cheerfully, Line 2.
“And it is the same thing in us that is quick and dead, awake and asleep, young and old.”
Heraclitus
(-535) pre-Socratic Greek philosopher
Fragment 88
Numbered fragments
“Take the dead from the dead, the old proverb said; only a corpse may speak true prophecy.”
Source: The Gunslinger
“A man without trust might as well be dead.”
Robert Jordan
(1948–2007) American writer
Lews Therin Telamon
(15 October 1994)
“If you're not working, you might as well be dead.”
T.C. Boyle
(1948) American novelist and short story writer
Acts of God (1989)
“Old Tubal Cain was a man of might
In the days when earth was young.”
Charles Mackay
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"Tubal Cain".
Legends of the Isles and Other Poems (1851)
