“We never live; we are always in the expectation of living.”
Voltaire (1694–1778) French writer, historian, and philosopher
Book IV, line 5.
Astronomica
“We never live; we are always in the expectation of living.”
Voltaire (1694–1778) French writer, historian, and philosopher
“We are always getting ready to live, but never living.”
Ralph Waldo Emerson (1803–1882) American philosopher, essayist, and poet
12 April 1834 http://books.google.com/books?id=MpNaAAAAMAAJ&q=&quot;We+are+always+getting+ready+to+live+but+never+living&quot;&pg=PA276#v=onepage <br class="br">1820s, Journals (1822–1863)
“Some people are so afraid to die that they never begin to live.”
Henry Van Dyke (1852–1933) American diplomat
“It is not death that a man should fear, but he should fear never beginning to live.”
Adam Silvera book They Both Die at the End
Marcus Aurelius, p. 225
They Both Die at the End (2017)
“Only when we are no longer afraid do we begin to live.”
Dorothy Thompson (1893–1961) American journalist and radio broadcaster
Jesse Stuart (1907–1984) American writer
Conversations with Jesse Stuart http://www.aliciapatterson.org/APF001975/Peyton/Peyton01/Peyton01.html, Dave Peyton. May 5, 1975.
“We can only begin to live when we conceive life as
Tragedy.”
W.B. Yeats (1865–1939) Irish poet and playwright