
„I want to live my life so that my nights are not full of regrets.“
— D.H. Lawrence English novelist, poet, playwright, essayist, literary critic and painter 1885 - 1930
How to Die, The Atlantic, October 2017 Issue https://www.theatlantic.com/magazine/archive/2017/10/how-to-die/537906/
— D.H. Lawrence English novelist, poet, playwright, essayist, literary critic and painter 1885 - 1930
— Aleister Crowley, kniha Diary of a Drug Fiend
Zdroj: Diary of a Drug Fiend
— Ernest Hemingway, kniha A Farewell to Arms
Zdroj: A Farewell to Arms
— Felix Adler German American professor of political and social ethics, rationalist, and lecturer 1851 - 1933
Founding Address (1876), Life and Destiny (1913)
Kontext: Let us learn from the lips of death the lessons of life. Let us live truly while we live, live for what is true and good and lasting. And let the memory of our dead help us to do this. For they are not wholly separated from us, if we remain loyal to them. In spirit they are with us. And we may think of them as silent, invisible, but real presences in our households.
— Conor Oberst American musician 1980
The Difference In The Shades
Letting Off the Happiness (1998)
— Steve Maraboli 1975
Zdroj: Life, the Truth, and Being Free (2010), p. 32
— Irvin D. Yalom American psychotherapist and writer 1931
The grand old man of American psychiatry on what he has learnt about life (and death) in his still-flourishing career, The Independent http://www.independent.co.uk/news/people/profiles/irvin-d-yalom-interview-the-grand-old-man-of-american-psychiatry-on-what-he-has-learnt-about-life-10134092.html
— Zinedine Zidane French association football player and manager 1972
— Randy Pausch American professor of computer science, human-computer interaction and design 1960 - 2008
CMU Graduation speech (2008)
Kontext: It is not the things we do in life that we regret on our death bed. It is the things we do not. I assure you I've done a lot of really stupid things, and none of them bother me. All the mistakes, and all the dopey things, and all the times I was embarrassed — they don't matter. What matters is that I can kind of look back and say: Pretty much any time I got chance to do something cool I tried to grab for it — and that's where my solace comes from.
— Marguerite Duras French writer and film director 1914 - 1996
— Franklin D. Roosevelt 32nd President of the United States 1882 - 1945
1940s, Third Inaugural Address (1941)
Kontext: Lives of nations are determined not by the count of years, but by the lifetime of the human spirit. The life of a man is three-score years and ten: a little more, a little less. The life of a nation is the fullness of the measure of its will to live.
— Gamal Abdel Nasser second president of Egypt 1918 - 1970
Gamal Abdel Nasser, speech to Egypt's National Assembly, Cairo (November 6, 1969), as reported by The Washington Post (November 7, 1969), p. 1.
— Zadie Smith, kniha White Teeth
Zdroj: White Teeth
— George Orwell, kniha Keep the Aspidistra Flying
Zdroj: Keep the Aspidistra Flying (1936), Ch. 5
— Madeleine L'Engle American writer 1918 - 2007
The Rock that Is Higher (1993)
— Yasmina Khadra Algerian writer 1955
Zdroj: Swallows of Kabul
— Mary Mapes Dodge Children's writer, novelist, poet, editor 1831 - 1905
The Two Mysteries (1904).