„Once in one's life, for one mortal moment, one must make a grab for immortality; if not, one has not lived“
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„One must pay dearly for immortality; one has to die several times while one is still alive.“
— Friedrich Nietzsche German philosopher, poet, composer, cultural critic, and classical philologist 1844 - 1900
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„Once, one has experienced this, one sees oneself in everything that lives, one recognises all of life as his life, everybody's interests as his own.“
— Meher Baba Indian mystic 1894 - 1969
Context: Life becomes meaningful and all activities are purposeful only on the basis of faith in the enduring reality. … The greatest romance possible in life is to discover this Eternal Reality in the midst of infinite change. Once, one has experienced this, one sees oneself in everything that lives, one recognises all of life as his life, everybody's interests as his own. One is no longer bound by habits of the past, no longer swayed by the hopes of the future — One lives in and enjoys each present moment to the full. There is no greater romance in life than this adventure in realization.
Message at Pickfair, Beverly Hills, California (1 June 1932), as quoted in Life Is A Jest (1974) edited by A. K. Hajra <!-- or 6 January? 1932 Me p100-101 -->
„Memory, prophecy and fantasy
the past, the future and
the dreaming moment between
are all one country,
living one immortal day.
To know that is Wisdom.
To use it is the Art.“
— Clive Barker author, film director and visual artist 1952
The Great and Secret Show
„To live a life of truth one has to suffer, but must suffer cheerfully“
— Morarji Desai Former Indian Finance Minister, Freedom Fighters, Former prime minister 1896 - 1995
„One must, in one's life, make a choice between boredom and suffering.“
— Anne Louise Germaine de Staël Swiss author 1766 - 1817
Letter to Claude Hochet (Summer 1800), quoted in J. Christopher Herold, Mistress to an Age: A Life of Madame de Staël (New York: Grove Press, 1958), p. 223
Herold comments: "Her decision was emphatically in favor of suffering, which after all was a pleasure compared to boredom." (p. 224)
„One must be fond of people and trust them if one is not to make a mess of life“
— E.M. Forster English novelist 1879 - 1970
Context: One must be fond of people and trust them if one is not to make a mess of life, and it is therefore essential that they should not let one down. They often do. The moral of which is that I must, myself, be as reliable as possible, and this I try to be. But reliability is not a matter of contract — that is the main difference between the world of personal relationships and the world of business relationships. It is a matter for the heart, which signs no documents. In other words, reliability is impossible unless there is a natural warmth. Most men possess this warmth, though they often have bad luck and get chilled. Most of them, even when they are politicians, want to keep faith. And one can, at all events, show one's own little light here, one's own poor little trembling flame, with the knowledge that it is not the only light that is shining in the darkness, and not the only one which the darkness does not comprehend.
„One lives but once in the world.“
— Johann Wolfgang von Goethe German writer, artist, and politician 1749 - 1832
Clavigo, Act I, sc. i (1774)
„One must live with all, e'en if life be hell: Crime makes shame, not monetary stricture“
— Multatuli Dutch author 1820 - 1887
Multatuli, Max Havelaar: Or the Coffee Auctions of the Dutch Trading Company
„Life is so fluid that one can only hope to capture the living moment, to capture it alive and fresh ... without destroying that moment.“
— Anaïs Nin writer of novels, short stories, and erotica 1903 - 1977
Context: Life is so fluid that one can only hope to capture the living moment, to capture it alive and fresh... without destroying that moment.
As quoted in D. H. Lawrence and Nine Women Writers (1996) by Leo Hamalian, p. 93
„To be entirely at leisure for one day is to be for one day an immortal:“
— Jan Struther British writer 1901 - 1953
The New Car, Mrs. Miniver
„Here's my life, why not, it is one, if you like, if you must, I don't say no, this evening. There has to be one, it seems, once there is speech, no need of a story, a story is not compulsory, just a life, that's the mistake I made, one of the mistakes, to have wanted a story for myself, whereas life alone is enough.“
— Samuel Beckett Irish novelist, playwright, and poet 1906 - 1989
„She will live on, one of the few, the immortal names not born to die.“
— Helen Keller American author and political activist 1880 - 1968
Context: She will live on, one of the few, the immortal names not born to die. Her spirit will endure as long as man can read and stories can be told of the woman who showed the world there are no boundaries to courage and faith.
Eulogy by Senator J. Lister Hill of Alabama