„no one dies happy, you can only die well“
— Stephen King, kniha Different Seasons
Zdroj: Different Seasons
„One only dies once, and if one does not die well, a good opportunity is lost and will not present itself again.“
Letter to Mariano Ponce, (1890)
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José Rizal
filipínsky spisovateľ, národovec, lekár a slobodomurár 1861 - 1896Podobné citáty
„An opportunity missed once will present itself again, whereas a too hasty action can never be recalled.“
— Pierre Choderlos de Laclos, kniha Les Liaisons dangereuses
Une occasion manquée se retrouve, tandis qu’on ne revient jamais d’une démarche précipitée.
Letter 33: La Marquise de Merteuil to le Vicomte de Valmont. Trans. P.W.K. Stone (1961). http://fr.wikisource.org/wiki/Les_Liaisons_dangereuses_-_Lettre_33
Les liaisons dangereuses (1782)
„… to be lost is to be fully present, and to be fully present is to be capable of being in uncertainty and mystery. And one does not get lost but loses oneself, with the implication that it is a conscious choice, a chosen surrender…“
— Rebecca Solnit Author and essayist from United States 1961
Zdroj: A Field Guide to Getting Lost
„Every one of us is losing something precious to us. Lost opportunities, lost possibilities, feelings we can never get back again. That’s part of what it means to be alive.“
— Haruki Murakami, kniha Kafka on the Shore
Zdroj: Kafka on the Shore
„If one defends the bourgeois, philistine virtues, one does not defend them merely from the demonism or bohemianism of the artist but from the present bourgeoisie itself.“
— Lionel Trilling American academic 1905 - 1975
Notebook entry (1951), published in Partisan Review: 50th Anniversary Edition, ed. William Philips (1985)
„I've learned…. That opportunities are never lost; someone will take the ones you miss.“
— Andy Rooney writer, humorist, television personality 1919 - 2011
„Once lost, Jupiter himself cannot bring back opportunity.“
— Phaedrus, kniha Fables
Book V, fable 7, line 4.
Fables
„Time Regained is Paradise Lost, and Time Lost is Paradise Regained. Let the dead bury their dead. If you want to live at every moment as it presents itself, you've got to die to every other moment.“
— Aldous Huxley English writer 1894 - 1963
John Rivers in The Genius and the Goddess (1955)
Kontext: You can't worship a spirit in spirit, unless you do it now. Wallowing in the past may be good literature. As wisdom, it's hopeless. Time Regained is Paradise Lost, and Time Lost is Paradise Regained. Let the dead bury their dead. If you want to live at every moment as it presents itself, you've got to die to every other moment.
„One of the few good things about modern times: If you die horribly on television, you will not have died in vain. You will have entertained us.“
— Kurt Vonnegut American writer 1922 - 2007
Cold Turkey (2004)
„My good opinion once lost is lost forever.“
— Jane Austen, kniha Pride and Prejudice
Zdroj: Pride and Prejudice
„There is an infinity of things one does well only through necessity.“
— Joseph Joubert French moralist and essayist 1754 - 1824
„Many, if not most, good ideas die young — mainly from neglect on the part of the parents, but sometimes from over-fondness. Once well started, an opinion had better be left to shift for itself.“
— Samuel Butler novelist 1835 - 1902
The Art of Propagating Opinion
The Note-Books of Samuel Butler (1912), Part X - The Position of a HomoUnius Libri
„Well, when one's lost, I suppose it's good advice to stay where you are until someone finds you.“
— Lewis Carroll English writer, logician, Anglican deacon and photographer 1832 - 1898
„When they die no one will ever know that once they lived.“
— Sidney Sheldon, kniha The Other Side of Me
Zdroj: The Other Side of Me
„So,” said Raven, “once again tonight we are presented with a mysterious sign and no way to know whether it completes a pattern or destroys one.“
— Samuel R. Delany, kniha Tales of Nevèrÿon
Section 3 (p. 245)
Tales of Nevèrÿon (1979)
„Nations with nations mix'd confus'dly die,
And lost in one promiscuous carnage lie.“
— Joseph Addison, The Campaign
Zdroj: The Campaign (1704), Line 152.
„A good idea is something that does not solve just one single problem, but rather can solve multiple problems at once.“
— Shigeru Miyamoto Japanese video game designer and producer 1952
Zdroj: Interview with Shigeru Miyamoto http://www.eurogamer.net/articles/shigeru-miyamoto-interview Eurogamer.net, published on 31 March 2010
„One does not learn how to die by killing others.“
— François-René de Chateaubriand, kniha Mémoires d'Outre-Tombe
Book IX: Ch. 4: Danton – Camille Desmoulins – Fabre d’Églantine.
Mémoires d'outre-tombe (1848 – 1850)