“In picture we never die, never decay or grow older”
Essay on the Theory of Painting (1725)
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“Those who love deeply never grow old; they may die of old age, but they die young.”
Source: Star Bridge (1955), Chapter 20, “Prime Mover” (p. 275)
Dawkins has stated on many occasions that this passage will be read at his funeral.
Unweaving the Rainbow (1998)
Context: We are going to die, and that makes us the lucky ones. Most people are never going to die because they are never going to be born. The potential people who could have been here in my place but who will in fact never see the light of day outnumber the sand grains of Sahara. Certainly those unborn ghosts include greater poets than Keats, scientists greater than Newton. We know this because the set of possible people allowed by our DNA so massively outnumbers the set of actual people. In the teeth of these stupefying odds it is you and I, in our ordinariness, that are here. We privileged few, who won the lottery of birth against all odds, how dare we whine at our inevitable return to that prior state from which the vast majority have never stirred?
“The image of ourselves in the minds of others is the picture of a stranger we shall never see.”
Haven (1951)
“Absolutely. That will never die. It will not die with me, then!”
When asked if she is still 'in love with Zermatt and music' as quoted in an appearance on Glanz & Gloria, Swiss SRF, 7 April 2017 https://www.srf.ch/play/tv/glanz--gloria/video/anni-frid-lyngstad?id=f8a70622-44e8-4ae1-8b25-b63acf09a672&station=69e8ac16-4327-4af4-b873-fd5cd6e895a7
“To accomplish great things we must live as though we had never to die.”
Pour exécuter de grandes choses, il faut vivre comme si on ne devait jamais mourir.
Quoted in Queers in History: The Comprehensive Encyclopedia of Historical Gays (2009), by Keith Stern, p. 466.
Variant: In order to achieve great things, we must live as though we were never going to die.
Source: Reflections and Maxims (1746), p. 172.