„One must live as if it would be forever, and as if one might die each moment. Always both at once.“
— Mary Renault, buch The Persian Boy
Quelle: The Persian Boy
Sylvester Stallone, interviewed by Rob Carnevale in " Sylvester Stallone: Rocky Balboa http://www.bbc.co.uk/films/2007/01/15/sylvester_stallone_rocky_balboa_2007_interview.shtml", BBC (28 October 2014).
„One must live as if it would be forever, and as if one might die each moment. Always both at once.“
— Mary Renault, buch The Persian Boy
Quelle: The Persian Boy
„One must pay dearly for immortality; one has to die several times while one is still alive.“
— Friedrich Nietzsche, buch Ecce homo
Man büßt es theuer, unsterblich zu sein: man stirbt dafür mehrere Male bei Lebzeiten.
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Ecce Homo (1888)
— Oscar Wilde Irish writer and poet 1854 - 1900
A Few Maxims for the Instruction of the Over-Educated (1894)
— Meher Baba Indian mystic 1894 - 1969
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 -->
General sources
Kontext: 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.
„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
Morarji Desai speaks about life and celibacy
„One must not live one's life through men but must be complete on oneself as a woman of substance.“
— Helen Fielding, buch Bridget Jones's Diary
Quelle: Bridget Jones's Diary
„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)
The actual quotation is from a letter from Mme de Staël to Claude Hochet dated October 1, 1800 : «Il faut choisir dans la vie entre l’ennui et le tourment : je donne l’un et l’hiver l’autre» (Germaine de Staël, Correspondance générale. Tome IV. Première partie. Du directoire au Consulat. 1er décembre 1796-15 décembre 1800, texte établi et présenté par Béatrice W. Jasinski, Paris, Chez Jean-Jacques Pauvert, 1976, xii/337 p., p. 326).
— Dan Simmons, buch The Rise of Endymion
Quelle: The Rise of Endymion (1997), Chapter 32 (p. 665)
— Homér, The Odyssey (Cowper)
XIX. 592–594 (tr. Robert Fagles).
Odyssey (c. 725 BC)
Original: (el) Ἀλλ' οὐ γάρ πως ἔστιν ἀΰπνους ἔμμεναι αἰὲν
ἀνθρώπους· ἐπὶ γάρ τοι ἑκάστῳ μοῖραν ἔθηκαν
ἀθάνατοι θνητοῖσιν ἐπὶ ζείδωρον ἄρουραν.
„One must live with all, e'en if life be hell: Crime makes shame, not monetary stricture“
— Multatuli, buch Max Havelaar
Multatuli, Max Havelaar: Or the Coffee Auctions of the Dutch Trading Company
„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
What I Believe (1938)
Kontext: 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.
„To live a pure unselfish life, one must count nothing as ones own in the midst of abundance.“
— Gautama Buddha philosopher, reformer and the founder of Buddhism -563 - -483 v.Chr
„Once the Regime said that one living cell is a life, real living became irrelevant.“
— Sheri S. Tepper American fiction writer 1929 - 2016
Flower in Ch. 37 : leaving bastion, p. 355
The Visitor (2002)
„For work, one must be hard and thrust outside of oneself what one has lived through.“
— Käthe Kollwitz German artist 1867 - 1945
Journal August 22 1916 Voices of German Expressionism ISBN 9781854374813
Other Quotes
— Hazrat Inayat Khan Indian Sufi 1882 - 1927
Vol. I, The Way of Illumination, Section I - The Way of Illumination, Part III : The Sufi.
The Spiritual Message of Hazrat Inayat Khan
Kontext: The religion of the Sufi is not separate from the religions of the world. People have fought in vain about the names and lives of their saviors, and have named their religions after the name of their savior, instead of uniting with each other in the truth that is taught. This truth can be traced in all religions, whether one community calls another pagan or infidel or heathen. Such persons claim that theirs is the only scripture, and their place of worship the only abode of God. Sufism is a name applied to a certain philosophy by those who do not accept the philosophy; hence it cannot really be described as a religion; it contains a religion but is not itself a religion. Sufism is a religion if one wishes to learn religion from it. But it is beyond religion, for it is the light, the sustenance of every soul, raising the mortal being to immortality.
— Max Beckmann German painter, draftsman, printmaker, sculptor and writer 1884 - 1950
1930s, On my Painting (1938)