— Oscar Wilde, buch Das Gespenst von Canterville
Quelle: The Canterville Ghost http://www.planetmonk.com/wilde/savile/canterville.c1.html (1887)
„Death must be so beautiful. To lie in the soft brown earth, with the grasses waving above one’s head, and listen to silence. To have no yesterday, and no tomorrow. To forget time, to forgive life, to be at peace.“
— Sylvia Plath, buch Die Glasglocke
Quelle: The Bell Jar
Letzte Aktualisierung 19. März 2022. Geschichte
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„So which is the lie? Hard or soft? Silence or time?“
— David Foster Wallace American fiction writer and essayist 1962 - 2008
— Sri Chinmoy Indian writer and guru 1931 - 2007
Quelle: Songs of the Soul (1971)
Kontext: War forgets peace. Peace forgives war. War is the death of the life human. Peace is the birth of the Life Divine. Our vital passions want war. Our psychic emotions desire peace.
— Adolfo Bioy Casares Argentine novelist 1914 - 1999
"La vida es difícil. Para estar en paz con uno mismo hay que decir la verdad. Para estar en paz con el prójimo hay que mentir."
Descanso de caminantes, 2001.
„Life is short, be grateful, be kind, be happy. Forgive and forget ... Love and peace.“
— Wu Chun Bruneian actor and singer 1979
Quelle: Wu Chun (2021) cited in " Singer-actor Wu Chun apologises after old photo of him and his wife sparks criticism, allegations https://www.straitstimes.com/lifestyle/entertainment/singer-actor-wu-chun-apologises-after-old-photo-of-him-and-his-wife-sparks" on The Straits Times, 9 March 2020.
— Prevale Italian DJ and producer 1983
Original: La musica è senza tempo. Un bel brano di ieri, è bello oggi e sarà bello domani.
Quelle: prevale.net
— Hunter S. Thompson American journalist and author 1937 - 2005
Letter to Gerald "Ching" Tyrrell, (11 November 1956), p. 28
1990s, The Proud Highway : The Fear and Loathing Letters Volume I (1997)
Kontext: Hopes rise and dreams flicker and die. Love plans for tomorrow and loneliness thinks of yesterday. Life is beautiful and living is pain. The sound of music floats down a dark street.
„Life is so beautiful that even the idea of death must be born before it can be realized.“
— Machado de Assis, buch Dom Casmurro
A vida é tão bela que a mesma idéia da morte precisa de vir primeiro a ela, antes de se ver cumprida.
Quelle: Dom Casmurro (1899), Ch. 133, p. 255
— John Lubbock, 1st Baron Avebury British banker, Liberal politician, philanthropist, scientist and polymath 1834 - 1913
The Use of Life (1894), ch. IV: Recreation
„If you have one foot in yesterday and one foot in tomorrow, you're pissing all over today.“
— Michael J. Fox Canadian-American actor 1961
Quelle: A Funny Thing Happened on the Way to the Future...: Twists and Turns and Lessons Learned
— Carl Sandburg American writer and editor 1878 - 1967
Incidentals (1904)
Kontext: Yesterday is done. Tomorrow never comes. Today is here. If you don't know what to do, sit still and listen. You may hear something. Nobody knows.
We may pull apart the petals of a rose or make chemical analysis of its perfume, but the mystic beauty of its form and odor is still a secret, locked in to where we have no keys.
„You live your life today,
Not tomorrow,
and certainly not yesterday.“
— John Grisham American lawyer, politician, and author 1955
„With all memory and fate driven deep beneath the waves, let me forget about today until tomorrow.“
— Bob Dylan American singer-songwriter, musician, author, and artist 1941
Song lyrics, Bringing It All Back Home (1965), Mr. Tambourine Man
„Yesterday is safe,
Tomorrow's full of danger,
Yesterday's a face I know,
Tomorrow is a stranger.“
— Henry Summers British civil servant 1911 - 2005
"A Spell for Midnight"
„I'd trade all my tomorrows for one single yesterday.“
— Kris Kristofferson American country music singer, songwriter, musician, and film actor 1936
— Samuel Butler novelist 1835 - 1902
Birth and Death, ii
The Note-Books of Samuel Butler (1912), Part I - Lord, What is Man?
