„Yet have I lived!—and lived for noble ends!
My shade in glory to the shades descends.“
— Charles Symmons Welsh poet 1749 - 1826
Book IV, lines 878–879
The Æneis (1817)
„I have lived
and journeyed through the course assigned by fortune.
And now my Shade will pass, illustrious,
beneath the earth.“
— Vergil, Aeneid
Original: (la) Vixi, et, quem dederat cursum Fortuna, peregi;
Et nunc magna mei sub terras ibit Imago.
Quelle: Aeneid (29–19 BC), Book IV, Lines 653–654 (tr. Allen Mandelbaum)
Original
Vixi, et, quem dederat cursum Fortuna, peregi; Et nunc magna mei sub terras ibit Imago.
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— Saima Harmaja Finnish poet and writer 1913 - 1937
A poem from the collection “Hunnutettu” (“Veiled”), translation by Rupert Moreton (1936)
Original: (fi) Nyt varjo vain
on edessäni elon matka.
Ja takanain
on tuskan tie, se jot’ en jatka.<p>Mun takanain
on kevät alla julman kirren.
Sen elää sain,
sain kynnykselle suvivirren.<p>Sen mukanaan
vei käsi kallis, kylmentyvä.
Nyt suven maan
nään sydämessä hauta syvä.
— Joseph Addison politician, writer and playwright 1672 - 1719
No. 101 (26 June 1711).
The Spectator (1711–1714)
Kontext: "Censure," says a late ingenious author, "is the tax a man plays for being eminent." It is a folly for an eminent man to think of escaping it, and a weakness to be affected with it. All the illustrious persons of antiquity, and indeed of every age in the world, have passed through this fiery persecution. There is no defense against reproach but obscurity; it is a kind of comitant to greatness, as satires and invectives were an essential part of a Roman triumph.
— Hermann Hesse, buch Journey to the East
Journey to the East (1932)
Kontext: It was my destiny to join in a great experience. Having had the good fortune to belong to the League, I was permitted to be a participant in unique journey. What wonder it had at the time! How radiant and comet-like it seemed, and how quickly it has been forgotten and allowed to fall into disrepute. For this reason, I have decided to attempt a short description of this fabulous journey, a journey the like of which had not been attempted since the days of Hugo and mad Roland.
— TotalBiscuit British game commentator 1984 - 2018
WTF Is…? series, Day One: Garry's Incident (October 1, 2013)
„My life is lived, and I have played
The part that Fortune gave.“
— John Conington British classical scholar 1825 - 1869
Quelle: Translations, The Aeneid of Virgil (1866), Book IV, p. 138
— Richard Rodríguez American journalist and essayist 1944
Brown : The Last Discovery of America (2003)
— Giordano Bruno Italian philosopher, mathematician and astronomer 1548 - 1600
As quoted in "Giordano Bruno" by Thomas Davidson, in The Index Vol. VI. No. 36 (4 March 1886), p. 429
— Henri Barbusse French novelist 1873 - 1935
The Inferno (1917), Ch. XVII
Kontext: What I have seen is going to disappear, since I shall do nothing with it. I am like a mother the fruit of whose womb will perish after it has been born.
What matter? I have heard the annunciation of whatever finer things are to come. Through me has passed, without staying me in my course, the Word which does not lie, and which, said over again, will satisfy.
„The hawthorn bush, with seats beneath the shade,
For talking age and whispering lovers made.“
— Oliver Goldsmith, The Deserted Village
Quelle: The Deserted Village (1770), Line 13.
— Brigham Young Latter Day Saint movement leader 1801 - 1877
Journal of Discourses 9:102 (January 5, 1860)
1860s
„It is noble to be shy, illustrious not to know how to act, great not to have a gift for living.“
— Fernando Pessoa, buch Das Buch der Unruhe des Hilfsbuchhalters Bernardo Soares
Ibid., p. 86
The Book of Disquiet
Original: É nobre ser tímido, ilustre não saber agir, grande não ter jeito para viver.
— Mervyn Peake English writer, artist, poet and illustrator 1911 - 1968
"Each Day I Live in a Glass Room," A Reverie of Bone and other Poems (1967)
„Having now been in the trenches for five months, I had passed my prime.“
— Robert Graves English poet and novelist 1895 - 1985
Quelle: Goodbye to All That (1929), Ch.16 On being in the trenches in France in 1915.
Kontext: Having now been in the trenches for five months, I had passed my prime. For the first three weeks, an officer was of little use in the front line... Between three weeks and four weeks he was at his best, unless he happened to have any particular bad shock or sequence of shocks. Then his usefulness gradually declined as neurasthenia developed. At six months he was still more or less all right; but by nine or ten months, unless he had been given a few weeks' rest on a technical course, or in hospital, he usually became a drag on the other company officers. After a year or fifteen months he was often worse than useless.
— Peter Paul Rubens Flemish painter 1577 - 1640
Quote in a letter to his friend Peiresc, 18 Dec. 1634; as cited by Simon Schrama, in Rembrandt's eyes, Alfred A. Knopf - Borzoi Books, New York 1999, p. 402
1625 - 1640
„Having now finished the work assigned me, I retire from the great theatre of Action“
— George Washington first President of the United States 1732 - 1799
Address to Congress resigning his commission (23 December 1783)
1780s
Kontext: Having now finished the work assigned me, I retire from the great theatre of Action; and bidding an Affectionate farewell to this August body under whose orders I have so long acted, I here offer my commission, and take my leave of all the employments of public life.
„Heaven and earth will pass away, but my words will not pass away.“
— Jesus Jewish preacher and religious leader, central figure of Christianity -7 - 30 v.Chr
Mark 13:31, NWT
New Testament, The Gospel of Mark
