“Too weird to live, too rare to die!”
Hunter S. Thompson book Fear and Loathing in Las Vegas
Source: Fear and Loathing in Las Vegas
“There he goes. One of God's own prototypes. A high-powered mutant of some kind never even considered for mass production. Too weird to live, and too rare to die.”
The quote "There he goes. One of God's own prototypes. A high-powered mutant of some kind never even…" is famous quote by Hunter S. Thompson (1937–2005), American journalist and author.
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Timothy Leary (1920–1996) American psychologist
As quoted in Shout! (1981) by Philip Norman, p. 365; and in An Encyclopedia of Quotations about Music (1981) by Nat Shapiro, p. 303
“There taught us how to live; and (oh! too high
The price for knowledge) taught us how to die.”
Thomas Tickell (1685–1740) English poet and man of letters
On the Death of Mr. Addison (1721), line 81. Compare: "He who should teach men to die, would at the same time teach them to live", Michel de Montaigne, Essay, book i. chap. ix.; "I have taught you, my dear flock, for above thirty years how to live; and I will show you in a very short time how to die", Sandys, Anglorum Speculum, p. 903; "Teach him how to live, And, oh still harder lesson! how to die", Beilby Porteus, Death, line 316; "He taught them how to live and how to die", Somerville, In Memory of the Rev. Mr. Moore.
Context: There patient show'd us the wise course to steer,
A candid censor, and a friend severe;
There taught us how to live; and (oh! too high
The price for knowledge) taught us how to die.
Edward Bernays (1891–1995) American public relations consultant, marketing pioneer
"Manipulating Public Opinion", American Journal of Sociology 33 (May, 1928), p. 958–971
“the price of creation
is never
too high.
the price of living
with other people
always
is.”
Charles Bukowski (1920–1994) American writer
Source: You Get So Alone at Times That it Just Makes Sense
“No bird soars too high if he soars with his own wings.”
William Blake (1757–1827) English Romantic poet and artist
Source: 1790s, The Marriage of Heaven and Hell (1790–1793), Proverbs of Hell, Line 15
“Redeemers always reach the world too late.
God dies, we live; God lives, we die. Our fate.”
Peter Porter (1929–2010) British poet
"A Tale of Two Pieties", in The Chair of Babel (Oxford: Oxford University Press, 1992) p. 51.
Maimónides book The Guide for the Perplexed
Source: Guide for the Perplexed (c. 1190), Part III, Ch.17
