“I lived like a man who wanted to die but who had no courage to do it himself.”
Source: Interview with the Vampire
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Miguel de Unamuno (1864–1936) 19th-20th century Spanish writer and philosopher
The Tragic Sense of Life (1913), III : The Hunger of Immortality
Context: Glorious is the risk! — καλος γαρ ο κινδυνος, glorious is the risk that we are able to run of our souls never dying … Faced with this risk, I am presented with arguments designed to eliminate it, arguments demonstrating the absurdity of the belief in the immortality of the soul; but these arguments fail to make any impression on me, for they are reasons and nothing more than reasons, and it is not with reasons that the heart is appeased. I do not want to die — no; I neither want to die nor do I want to want to die; I want to live for ever and ever and ever. I want this "I" to live — this poor "I" that I am and that I feel myself to be here and now, and therefore the problem of the duration of my soul, of my own soul, tortures me.
Voltaire (1694–1778) French writer, historian, and philosopher
Tel homme qui dans un excès de mélancolie se tue aujourd’hui aimerait à vivre s’il attendait huit jours. <br class="br"> "Cato" http://www.voltaire-integral.com/Html/18/caton.htm (1764) <br class="br">Citas, Dictionnaire philosophique (1764)
Haidakhan Babaji teacher in northern India
Courage and alertness
Source: The Teachings of Babaji, 5 July 1983.