„A living thing
Produced too slowly ever to decay;
Of form and aspect too magnificent
To be destroyed.“

„A little too much anger, too often or at the wrong time, can destroy more than you would ever imagine.“

—  Marilynne Robinson, Gilead

Zdroj: Gilead

„Rilke wrote: 'These trees are magnificent, but even more magnificent is the sublime and moving space between them, as though with their growth it too increased.“

—  Gaston Bachelard, kniha The Poetics of Space

Zdroj: The Poetics of Space

„All things that have form eventually decay." -Orochimaru“

—  Masashi Kishimoto Japanese manga artist 1974

„Of all the systems of religion that ever were invented, there is none more derogatory to the Almighty, more unedifying to man, more repugnant to reason, and more contradictory in itself, than this thing called Christianity. Too absurd for belief, too impossible to convince, and too inconsistent for practice, it renders the heart torpid, or produces only atheists and fanatics.“

—  Thomas Paine, kniha The Age of Reason

Zdroj: 1790s, The Age of Reason, Part II (1795), Chapter III: Conclusion.

„I doubt that Fidel will ever come back to power. I think he is slowly going to the great beyond. Too slowly... he could have gone a long time ago.“

—  Gloria Estefan Cuban-American singer-songwriter, actress and divorciada 1957

Dutch television interview (March 1, 2007)
2007, 2008

„I try, in my life, to follow my heart. I know what it feels like to do things that are soul-decaying. A large aspect of life in Hollywood, in a stereotypic way, I find unbelievably soul-decaying. And I choose, albeit frustratingly to other people in my life, not to expose myself too much to too much of that.“

—  Gillian Anderson American-British film, television and theatre actress, activist and writer 1968

Hal Boedeker (January 21, 2006) "Agent of Change - Gillian Anderson , who found fulfilling work in England after `The X-Files,' returns to TV in a PBS miniseries", The Orlando Sentinel, p. E1.
2000s

„A state too expensive in itself, or by virtue of its dependencies, ultimately falls into decay“

—  Simón Bolívar Venezuelan military and political leader, South American libertador 1783 - 1830

Letter from Jamaica (Summer 1815)
Kontext: A state too expensive in itself, or by virtue of its dependencies, ultimately falls into decay; its free government is transformed into a tyranny; it disregards the principles which it should preserve, and finally degenerates into despotism. The distinguishing characteristic of small republics is stability: the character of large republics is mutability.

„Sitting too long produces trees.“

—  Lorin Morgan-Richards American poet, cartoonist, and children's writer 1975

Coined term on social media on May 23, 2018.
Quotes as Marcil d'Hirson Garron

„Life is far too important a thing ever to talk seriously about it.“

—  Oscar Wilde, Lady Windermere's Fan

Lord Darlington, Act I
Often quoted as: Life is far too important to be taken seriously.
Often quoted as: Life is too important to be taken seriously.
Often quoted as: Life is too important to take seriously.
Varianta: Life is too important to be taken seriously.
Zdroj: Lady Windermere's Fan (1892)

„As happens with people who love a thing too much, it destroys them.
Oscar Wilde said, 'You destroy the thing that you love.' It's the other way around. What you love destroys you.“

—  George Plimpton journalist, writer, editor, actor 1927 - 2003

„People living in the vanity of their own mind not only destroy themselves, but far too often, they bring destruction to others around them.“

—  Joyce Meyer American author and speaker 1943

Zdroj: Battlefield of the Mind: Winning the Battle in Your Mind

„Can we ever have too much of a good thing?“

—  Miguel de Cervantes Spanish novelist, poet, and playwright 1547 - 1616

Zdroj: Don Quixote de la Mancha (1605–1615), Part I, Book I, Ch. 6.

„We--by whom I mean anyone over sixty--commit two offenses just bu existing. One is Lack of Velocity. We drive too slowly, walk to slowly, talk too slowly. The world will do business with dictators, perverts, and drugs barons of all stripes, but being slowed down it cannot abide.“

—  David Mitchell, kniha Atlas mraků

Our second offence is being Everyman's memento mori. The world can only get comfy in shiny-eyed denial if we are out of sight.
"The Ghastly Ordeal of Timothy Cavendish", p. 315 (Nook edition)
Cloud Atlas (2004)

„What was life? It was warmth, the warmth generated by a form-preserving instability, a fever of matter, which accompanied the process of ceaseless decay and repair of protein molecules that were too impossibly ingenious in structure.“

—  Thomas Mann, kniha The Magic Mountain

Zdroj: The Magic Mountain (1924), Ch. 5

„What goes too long unchanged destroys itself.“

—  Ursula K. Le Guin American writer 1929 - 2018

“Dragonfly” (p. 236)
Earthsea Books, Tales from Earthsea (2001)

„The electric things have their life too. Paltry as those lives are.“

—  Philip K. Dick, kniha Do Androids Dream of Electric Sheep?

Zdroj: Do Androids Dream of Electric Sheep? (1968), Chapter 22 (p. 241)

„Too much of anything could destroy you, Simon thought. Too much darkness could kill, but too much light could blind.“

—  Cassandra Clare, The City of Lost Souls

Zdroj: City of Lost Souls

„Too weird to live, too rare to die!“

—  Hunter S. Thompson, kniha Fear and Loathing in Las Vegas

Zdroj: Fear and Loathing in Las Vegas

„Too soon is to waste the good aspects of life, and perhaps unkind to those who love and need you. Too late means you might lose control.“

—  Derek Humphry, kniha Final Exit

"When Is the Time to Die?", p. 101
Final Exit