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They are not long, the days of wine and roses:
Out of a misty dream
Our path emerges for a while, then closes
Within a dream.
-Ernest Dowson
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They are not long, the weeping and the laughter,
Love and desire and hate:
I think they have no portion in us after
We pass the gate.
They are not long, the days of wine and roses:
Out of a misty dream
Our path emerges for a while, then closes
Within a dream.
(the poem
-Ernest Dowson
Vitae Summa Brevis Spem Nos Vetat Incohare Longam
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Life is infinitely stranger than anything which the mind of man could invent. We would not dare to conceive the things which are really merely commonplaces of existence. If we could fly out of that window hand in hand, hover over this great city, gently remove the roofs and peep in at the queer things which are going on, the strange coincidences, the planning, the cross-purposes, the wonderful chain of events, working through generations and leading to the most outer results, it would make all fiction with its conventionalities and foreseen conclusions most stale and unprofitable.
-Sir Arthur Conan Doyle
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He lives who dies to win a lasting name.
-Henry Drummond
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When I consider life, it is all a cheat. Yet fooled with hope, people favor this deceit.
-John Dryden
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People do not live nowadays. They get about 10% out of life.
-Isadora Duncan
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What life means to us is determined, not so much by what life brings to us as by the attitude we bring to life; not so much by what happens to us as by our reaction to what happens.
-Lewis L Dunnington
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This is pretty strange, not poems, poems are pretty good.
-James Dye
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Maxim for life: You get treated in life the way you teach people to treat you.
-Wayne Dyer
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He who is not busy being born is busy dying.
-Bob Dylan
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There is no stopping place in this life--nor is there ever one for any person, no matter how far along the way one's gone.
-Meister Eckhart
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The three great essentials to achieve anything worth while are: Hard work, Stick-to-itiveness, and Common sense.
-Thomas Alva Edison
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Either you push forward with the things that you were doing yesterday or you start dying.
-Elizabeth Edwards
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The days of our lives, for all of us, are numbered. We know that. And, yes, there are certainly times when we aren't able to muster as much strength and patience as we would like. It's called being human.
-Elizabeth Edwards
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The ideals which have always shone before me and filled me with the joy of living are goodness, beauty, and truth.
-Albert Einstein
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We have penetrated far less deeply into the regularities obtaining within the realm of living things, but deeply enough nevertheless to sense at least the rule of fixed necessity... what is still lacking here is a grasp of the connections of profound generality, but not a knowledge of order itself.
-Albert Einstein
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How strange is the lot of us mortals! Each of us is here for a brief sojourn; for what purpose he knows not, though he senses it. But without deeper reflection one knows from daily life that one exists for other people.
-Albert Einstein
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Only a life lived for others is a life worthwhile.
-Albert Einstein
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What do we live for; if it is not to make life less difficult to each other?
-George Eliot
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The dream crossed twilight between birth and dying.
-TS (Thomas Stearns) Eliot
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Birth, copulation and death. That's all the facts when you come to the brass tacks.
-TS (Thomas Stearns) Eliot
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It has always been difficult for Man to realize that his life is all an art. It has been more difficult to conceive it so than to act it so. For that is always how he has more or less acted it.
-Havelock Ellis
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There is no Gain in the world: so be it: but neither is there any Loss. There is never any failure to this infinite freshness of life, and the ancient novelty is forever renewed. We realize the world better if we imagine it, not as a Progress to Prim Perfection, but as the sustained upleaping of a Fountain, the pillar of a Glorious Flame. For, after all, we cannot go beyond the ancient image of Heraclitus, the Ever-living Flame, kindled in due measure and in the like measure extinguished. That translucent and mysterious Flame shines undyingly before our eyes, never for two moments the same, and always miraculously incalculable, an ever-flowing stream of fire. The world is moving, men tell us, to this, to that, to the other. Do not believe them! Men have never known what the world is moving to. Who foresaw--to say nothing of older and vaster events--the Crucifixion? What Greek or Roman in his most fantastic moments prefigured our thirteenth century? What Christian foresaw the Renaissance? Who ever really expected the French Revolution? We cannot be too bold, for we are ever at the incipient point of some new manifestation far more overwhelming than all our dreams. No one can foresee the next aspect of the Fountain of Life. And all the time the Pillar of that Flame is burning at exactly the same height it has always been burning at! The World is everlasting Novelty, everlasting Monotony. It is just which aspect you prefer. You will always be right.
-Havelock Ellis
Impressions and Comments, November 13, 1913
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The life of man is the true romance, which when it is valiantly conduced, will yield the imagination a higher joy than any fiction.
-Ralph Waldo Emerson
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Life is a perpetual instruction in cause and effect.
-Ralph Waldo Emerson
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Books about Life
