Latin Life Death Quotes & Sayings

Whoever may still be sceptical whether knowledge of animal behaviour can help our understanding of man can find no support from Freud. — John Bowlby

You know, I'm confident before I go out and play a match that I know, you know, I've put in the work and like I feel confident that I am going to go out there and play well. — Jennifer Capriati

In the villages in Europe, there are still healers who tell stories. — Yannick Noah

It is loving the Cross that one finds one heart, for Divine Love cannot live without suffering. — Bernadette Soubirous

Set the tone for your day be treating people better than you expect to be treated by them. Be the first to smile. Express your appreciation for them. Expect the best out of them. If you act first, you will set yourself up for success. — John C. Maxwell

We live to produce information, or improve on it. Nietzsche had the Latin pun aut liberi, aut libri - either children or books, both information that caries through the centuries ... I am here to die a heroic death for the sake of the collective, to produce offspring (and prepare them for life and provide for them), or eventually, books, - my information, that is, my genes, the anti-fragile in me, should be the ones seeking immortality, not me. Then say goodbye, have a nice funeral in St. Sergius (Mar Sarkis) in Amioun, and, as the French say, place aux autres - make room for others (p. 370-371). — Nassim Nicholas Taleb

He wondered again at the easy, graceful manner in which the Roman lyricists accepted the fact of death, as if the nothingness they faced were a tribute to the richness of the years they had enjoyed; and he marveled at the bitterness, the terror, the barely concealed hatred he found in some of the later Christian poets of the Latin tradition when they looked to that death which promised, however vaguely, a rich and ecstatic eternity of life, as if that death and promise were a mockery that soured the days of their living. — John Edward Williams

Pulvis et umbra sumus. (We are but dust and shadow.) — Horace

With this honor devolves upon you also a corresponding responsibility. As the country herein trusts you, so under God it will sustain you. — Abraham Lincoln

This is the difference between U.S. Latina/o letters and Latina/o Letters from Latin America: In the United States, writing is a business. In Latin America, writing is life and death. — Daniel Pena

The death of a young wolfe doth never come too soon. — George Herbert