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This Life
«Give me a spirit that on this life's rough sea Loves to have his sails filled with a lusty wind, Even till his sail-yards tremble, his masts crack, And his rapt ship run on her side so low That she drinks water, and her keel ploughs air»
«If there is sin against life, it consists? in hoping for another life and in eluding the implacable grandeur of this life.»
Author: Albert Camus
(Essayist, Novelist, Playwright)
| Keywords:
against, consists, elude, eluded, eludes, eluding, grandeur, hoping, implacable, sin, This Life
«A person with amnesia is looked upon as ill. What of a person who can remember only this life? Is this then not a case of amnesia on a grand scale?»
«If there is a sin against life, it consists perhaps not so much in despairing of life as in hoping for another life and in eluding the implacable grandeur of this life»
Author: Albert Camus
(Essayist, Novelist, Playwright)
| About:
Life,
Sin
| Keywords:
despairing, elude, eluded, eludes, eluding, grandeur, hoping, implacable, This Life
«As from a large heap of flowers many garlands and wreaths are made, so by a mortal in this life there is much good work to be done.»
«If we really think that home is elsewhere and that this life is a 'wandering to find home,'' why should we not look forward to the arrival?»
Author: C.S. Lewis
(Novelist, Scholar)
| Keywords:
and elsewhere, arrival, arrivals, come forward, elsewhere, forward, forwarding, forwards, home, The Arrival, The Forward, This Life, wandering, wanderings
«A man cannot be said to succeed in this life who does not satisfy one friend.»
Author: Henry David Thoreau
(Essayist, Philosopher, Poet)
| About:
Friendship,
Success
| Keywords:
satisfy, This Life
«All you need in this life is ignorance and confidence, and then success is sure.»
Author: Mark Twain
(Humorist, Lecturer, Writer)
| About:
Confidence,
Ignorance,
Needs,
Success
| Keywords:
and then, confidence, ignorance, in this, sure, This Life
«All you need in this life is ignorance and confidence; then success is sure.»
Author: Mark Twain
(Humorist, Lecturer, Writer)
| About:
Confidence,
Ignorance,
Life,
Success,
Trust
| Keywords:
This Life