
“We trouble our life by thoughts about death, and our death by thoughts about life.”
Source: The Essays: A Selection
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From the poems written in English
“We trouble our life by thoughts about death, and our death by thoughts about life.”
Source: The Essays: A Selection
“Life is not breaths you take, but the moments that take your breath away.”
Variant: Life is not the breaths you take but the moments that take your breath away.
“Life is not measured by the breathes you take, but by the moments that take your breathe away.”
“You are the emotion of life that is renewed every moment to your thought alone.”
Original: (it) Sei l'emozione della vita che si rinnova ogni istante al solo tuo pensiero.
Source: prevale.net
“Life is but a moment. Death is but a moment, too.”
Das Leben ist Nur ein Moment, der Tod ist auch nur einer!
Maria Stuart, Act III, sc. vi (1800)
Source: The Tales of Alvin Maker, Red Prophet (1988), Chapter 17.