Quotes with life-time

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  • Carl Gustav Jung What is essential in a work of art is that it should rise far above the realm of personal life and speak to the spirit and heart of the poet as man to the spirit and heart of mankind.
    Source: Modern Man in Search of a Soul (1933)
    Carl Gustav Jung
    Swiss psychiatrist (1875 - 1961)
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  • Johann Wolfgang Von Goethe What is important in life is life, and not the result of life.
    Johann Wolfgang Von Goethe
    German writer and poet (1749 - 1832)
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  • Boris Pasternak What is laid down, ordered, factual is never enough to embrace the whole truth: life always spills over the rim of every cup.
    Source: As quoted in Bridges to Infinity : The Human Side of Mathematics (1983)
    Boris Pasternak
    Russian writer (1890 - 1960)
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  • Pedro Calderón de la Barca What is life? A frenzy. What is life? An illusion, a shadow, a fiction. And the greatest good is trivial; for all life is a dream and all dreams are dreams.
    Pedro Calderón de la Barca
    Spanish playwright (1600 - 1681)
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  • Alfred N. Whitehead What is morality in any given time or place? It is what the majority then and there happen to like, and immorality is what they dislike.
    Alfred N. Whitehead
    English philosopher and mathematician (1861 - 1947)
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  • Johann Wolfgang Von Goethe What is my life if I am no longer useful to others.
    Johann Wolfgang Von Goethe
    German writer and poet (1749 - 1832)
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  • Henry David Thoreau What is peculiar in the life of a man consists not in his obedience, but his opposition, to his instincts. In one direction or another he strives to live a supernatural life.
    Henry David Thoreau
    American writer (1817 - 1862)
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  • Lord George Byron What is the worst of woes that wait on age? What stamps the wrinkle deeper on the brow? To view each loved one blotted from life's page, And be alone on earth, as I am now.
    Lord George Byron
    English poet (1788 - 1824)
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  • Anthony Holden What it was at the time was literally a plea for, to get the pressure off for a while, to give her space to breathe. She was very unhappy. She was feeling pretty claustrophobic.
    Anthony Holden
    English writer, broadcaster and critic
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  • Johann Wolfgang Von Goethe What life half gives a man, posterity gives entirely.
    Johann Wolfgang Von Goethe
    German writer and poet (1749 - 1832)
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  • George Eliot What makes life dreary is the want of a motive.
    George Eliot
    English writer and poet (1819 - 1880)
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  • Wallace Stevens What our eyes behold may well be the text of life but one's meditations on the text and the disclosures of these meditations are no less a part of the structure of reality.
    Wallace Stevens
    American poet (1879 - 1955)
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  • George Eliot What quarrel, what harshness, what unbelief in each other can subsist in the presence of a great calamity, when all the artificial vesture of our life is gone, and we are all one with each other in primitive mortal needs?
    George Eliot
    English writer and poet (1819 - 1880)
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  • Joseph Brodsky What should I say about life? That it's long and abhors transparence.
    Joseph Brodsky
    Russian-born American Poet, Critic (1940 - 1996)
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  • Thomas Jefferson What signify a few lives lost in a century or two? The tree of liberty must be refreshed from time to time with the blood of patriots and tyrants. It is its natural manure.
    Thomas Jefferson
    American statesman (1743 - 1826)
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  • Marcus Tullius Cicero What sweetness is left in life, if you take away friendship? Robbing life of friendship is like robbing the world of the sun. A true friend is more to be esteemed than kinsfolk.
    Marcus Tullius Cicero
    Roman statesman and writer (106 - 43)
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  • Aldous Huxley What the rest of us see only under the influence of mescalin, the artist is congenitally equipped to see all the time.
    Aldous Huxley
    English writer (1894 - 1963)
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  • Richard Buckminster Fuller What usually happens in the educational process is that the faculties are dulled, overloaded, stuffed and paralyzed so that by the time most people are mature they have lost their innate capabilities.
    Richard Buckminster Fuller
    American poet, philosopher and inventor (1895 - 1983)
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  • Buddha What we are today comes from our thoughts of yesterday, and our present thoughts build our life of tomorrow: Our life is the creation of our mind.
    Buddha
    Spiritual leader, born as Siddhartha Gautama (450 - 370)
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  • Ben Gibbard What we aspired to in 1998, we have wildly surpassed. And I know we all feel incredibly grateful and lucky this band has been able to have the life that it's had.
    Ben Gibbard
    American singer, songwriter and guitarist (1976 - )
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