Living and lifetime Quotes

The difficulty, my friends, is not in avoiding death, but in avoiding unrighteousness; for that runs faster than death.

Never is an awfully long time.

The fear of death is more to be feared, than death itself.

I would like to give you a little of my sleep that nothing, not even a cannon, can disturb.

I think that in all descriptions of the good life here on earth we must assume a certain basis of animal vitality and animal instinct; without this, life becomes tame and uninteresting.

Being the third son of the family and not bred to any trade, my head began to be filled very early with rambling thoughts.

In the midst of life we are in death.

I can study, play, or sleep in a tempest.

To be a kind of nothing for a moment.

It is ever the case with men in high places who are before the eye of the public: tempests arise unexpectedly, the existence of which is not suspected by the victim till they burst over his head.

They may be compared with waterspouts, and they pour down on the poet, be he a Schiller or a Dante, an Ovid or a Byron, utterly overwhelming him, rending his heart and body, tearing down his fame, overturning his reputation, uprooting his honour.

The wilderness without a sound took him into its bosom again.

The wilderness had found him out early, and had taken on him a terrible vengeance for the fantastic invasion.

You have to live on this twenty-four hours of daily time.

We never shall have any more time. We have, and we have always had, all the time there is.

You can only waste the passing moment.

Sir Thomas Bodley's Library at Oxford is, all will admit, a great and glorious institution, one of England's sacred places.

A celebrated physician has just come from Janina in Albania. He alone can cure the King and give him back the strength of his youth.

In this place you may fearlessly stay.

There was a miller who left no more estate to the three sons he had than his mill, his ass, and his cat.