“I never have found the perfect quote. At best I have been able to find a string of quotations which merely circle the ineffable idea I seek to express.”
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"Each of us has a day, more or less sad, more or less distant, when he has to accept, finally, the fact that he is a man."
-- Jean Anouilh, Antigone
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"Until the day of his death, no man can be sure of his courage."
-- Jean Anouilh
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"To err is human, to loaf is Parisian."
-- Victor Hugo, Les Misérables
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"Dance is the only art of which we ourselves are the stuff of which it is made."
-- Ted Shawn
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"If a man know not life which he hath seen, how shall he know death, which he hath not seen?"
-- Samuel Butler
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"It matters not how a man dies, but how he lives. The act of dying is not of importance, it lasts so short a time.”
-- Samuel Johnson
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"In the attempt to defeat death man has been inevitably obliged to defeat life, for the two are inextricably related. Life moves on to death, and to deny one is to deny the other."
-- Henry Miller
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"I am, indeed, a king, because I know how to rule myself."
-- Pietro Aretino
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"Give every man thine ear, but few thy voice."
-- William Shakespeare, Hamlet
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“If you are lucky enough to have lived in Paris as a young man, then wherever you go for the rest of your life, it stays with you, for Paris is a moveable feast.”
-- Ernest Hemingway, A Moveable Feast
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"Eternity is a terrible thought. I mean, where's it going to end?" -- Tom Stoppard, Rosencrantz & Guildenstern Are Dead
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"The line between failure and success is so fine that we scarcely know when we pass it: so fine that we are often on the line and do not know it." -- Elbert Hubbard
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"Sometimes you climb out of bed in the morning and you think, I'm not going to make it, but you laugh inside — remembering all the times you've felt that way." -- Charles Bukowski
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Do not go gentle into that good night. Rage, rage against the dying of the light.
Dylan Thomas
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