Life

Grow old along with me!

Sweet wine of youth.

Energy is Eternal Delight.

Some are born to sweet delight,

If any man thinks he slays, and if another thinks he is slain, neither knows the ways of truth. The Eternal in man cannot kill: the Eternal in man cannot die.

L’élan vital.

They give birth astride of a grave, the light gleams an instant, then it’s night once more.

For what do we live, but to make sport for our neighbours, and laugh at them in our turn?

A shilling life will give you all the facts.

You were silly like us; your gift survived it all:

He was my North, my South, my East and West,

The Good of man is the active exercise of his soul’s faculties in conformity with excellence or virtue … Moreover this activity must occupy a complete lifetime; for one swallow does not make spring, nor does one fine day; and similarly one day or a brief period of happiness does not make a man supremely blessed and happy.

Every art and every investigation, and likewise every practical pursuit or undertaking, seems to aim at some good: hence it has been well said that the Good is That at which all things aim.

Where there is love, there is life.

There is more to life than simply increasing its speed.

Monotony is the law of nature. Look at the monotonous manner in which the sun rises. The monotony of necessary occupation is exhilarating and life-giving.

Live as if you were to die tomorrow. Learn as if you were to live forever.

Birth and death are not two different states, but they are different aspects of the same state. There is as little reason to deplore the one as there is to be pleased about the other.

Solomon Grundy, Born on a Monday, Christened on Tuesday, Married on Wednesday, Took ill on Thursday, Worse on Friday, Died on Saturday, Buried on Sunday: This is the end Of Solomon Grundy.

When it’s over, I want to say: all my life I was a bride married to amazement. I was the bridegroom taking the world into my arms.

how to love this world.

Something like living occurs, a movement Out of the dream into its codification.

Sexual intercourse began In nineteen sixty-three (Which was rather late for me)— Between the end of the Chatterley ban And the Beatles’ first LP.

If I were called in To construct a religion I should make use of water.