“With this recognition of the finality of death, no one should willingly withhold acts that would bring benefits, joy or happiness to others.”
An Atheist Manifesto
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American activist 1889–1968Related quotes
Constantine P. Cavafy (1863–1933) Greek poet
Collected Poems (1992), When the Watchman Saw the Light (1900)
Context: Now the longed-for signal has appeared. Yet when happiness comes
it brings less joy than one expected.
But at least we've gained this much: we've rid ourselves
of hope and expectation.
“As a well-spent day brings happy sleep, so life well used brings happy death.”
Leonardo Da Vinci (1452–1519) Italian Renaissance polymath
The Notebooks of Leonardo Da Vinci (1938), I Philosophy
“Outside of that single fatality of death, everything, joy or happiness, is liberty.”
Albert Camus book The Myth of Sisyphus
The Myth of Sisyphus (1942), Absurd Creation
Eleanor Roosevelt (1884–1962) American politician, diplomat, and activist, and First Lady of the United States
As quoted in Sheroes: Bold, Brash, and Absolutely Unabashed Superwomen from Susan B. Anthony to Xena (1998) by Varla Ventura, p. 150
