
„I'm so glad I didn't ruin a man's life by marrying him.“
— Lillian Gish American actress 1893 - 1993
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— Lillian Gish American actress 1893 - 1993
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— Vernon Howard American writer 1918 - 1992
1500 Ways to Escape the Human Jungle
— Bill Watterson American comic artist 1958
Homicidal Psycho Jungle Cat
Source: The Complete Calvin and Hobbes
— Sophie Kinsella, book The Undomestic Goddess
Source: The Undomestic Goddess
— David Gemmell, book Legend
Source: Drenai series, Legend, Pt 1: Against the Horde, Ch. 7
Context: [A]ll men die.... A man needs many things in his life to make it bearable. A good woman. Sons and daughters. Comradeship. Warmth. Food and shelter. but above all these things, he needs to be able to know that he is a man. And what is a man? He is someone who rises when life has knocked him down. Someone who raises his fist to heaven when a storm has ruined his crop — and then plants again. And again. A man remains unbroken by the savage twists of fate. That man may never win. But when he sees himself reflected, he can be proud of what he sees. For low he may be in the scheme of things: peasant, serf, or dispossessed. But he is unconquerable. And what is death? an end to trouble. An end to strife and fear.... Bear this in mind when you decide your future.
— Anita Brookner, A Start in Life
Source: A Start in Life
— Friedrich Schiller, William Tell
Act IV, sc. ii
Wilhelm Tell (1803)
— Louis C.K. American comedian and actor 1967
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— Seneca the Younger, Moral Essays
De Brevitate Vitae ("On the Shortness of Life", trans. John W. Basore), Ch. 1
Moral Essays
Original: (la) Non exiguum temporis habemus, sed multum perdidimus. Satis longa vita.
— Philip Stanhope, 4th Earl of Chesterfield British statesman and man of letters 1694 - 1773
"Advice to a Lady in Autumn", published in A Collection of Poems in Six Volumes. By Several Hands. Vol. I. (1763), printed by J. Hughs, for R. and J. Dodsley
— Woody Allen American screenwriter, director, actor, comedian, author, playwright, and musician 1935
Hannah and Her Sisters (1986).
— Guy De Maupassant French writer 1850 - 1893
Variant translation:
What would have happened if she had not lost that necklace? Who knows? Who knows? How singular life is, how changeable! What a little thing it takes to save you or to lose you.
La Parure (The Necklace) (1884)
— Horace Roman lyric poet -65 - -8 BC
Seneca's (De Brevitate Vitae, 1.1) Latin translation of the Greek by Hippocrates.
Misattributed
Original: (la) Ars longa, vita brevis.
— Robert A. Heinlein, book Methuselah's Children
Part of the secret "call and response" codewords by which members of the long-lived Howard Families can identify others:
: Life is short.
But the years are long.
Not while the evil days come not.
Methuselah's Children (1958)
— José Ortega Y Gasset Spanish liberal philosopher and essayist 1883 - 1955