Source: The Magic Mountain (1924), Ch. 6; variant translation: I will let death have no mastery over my thoughts! For therein, and in nothing else, lies goodness and love of humankind.
“Still, they have one thing I envy. Humans, if nothing else, have the good sense to die.”
Variant: Humans, if nothing else, have the good sense to die.
Source: The Book Thief
“For the sake of goodness and love, man shall let death have no sovereignty over his thoughts.”
Source: The Magic Mountain (1924), Ch. 6
Context: I will keep faith with death in my heart, yet will remember that faith with death and the dead is only wickedness and dark voluptuousness and enmity against humankind, if it is given power over our thought and contemplation. For the sake of goodness and love, man shall let death have no sovereignty over his thoughts. And with that, I wake up.
Lines on his Promised Pension; reported in Thomas Fuller, Worthies of England, vol ii, page 379, and in Bartlett's Familiar Quotations, 10th ed. (1919)
Diary record of a comment made by Adams to John Marshall, Charles Francis Adams, Memoirs of John Quincy Adams : Comprising Portions of His Diary from 1795 to 1848 (1875), p. 372
“I have made my choice, Hori. I will share my life with you for good or evil, until death comes…”
With his arms round her, with the sudden new sweetness of his face against hers, she was filled with an exultant richness of living.
Death Comes as the End (1945)
Remark (1738?) quoted in Anecdotes, Observations, and Characters, of Books and Men (1820) by Joseph Spence [published from the original papers; with notes, and a life of the author, by Samuel Weller Singer]; "Spence's Anecdotes", Section IV. 1737...39. p. 200
“You made me forget myself; I thought I was someone else, someone good.”
Perfect Day
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“Let me have my dreams but not what I dream of.”
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Vectors: Aphorisms and Ten Second Essays (2001)
Canto CXX (the concluding Canto of the 1975 edition of The Cantos')
The Cantos
