Fear? What has a man to do with fear? Chance rules our lives, and the future is all unknown. Best live as we may, from day to day.
One word
Frees us of all the weight and pain of life:
That word is love.
What foolishness it is to desire more life, after one has tastedA bit of it and seen the world; for each day, after each endless day,Piles up ever more misery into a mound. As for pleasures: once weHave passed youth they vanish away, never again to be seen.Death is the end of all.Never to be born is the best thing. To have seen the daylightAnd be swept instantly back into dark oblivion comes second.
We have only a little time to please the living. But all eternity to love the dead.
Death is not the worst thing; rather, when one who craves death cannot attain even that wish.
A man, though wise, should never be ashamed of learning more, and must unbend his mind.
Go then if you must, but remember, no matter how foolish your deeds, those who love you will love you still.
One must wait until the evening to see how splendid the day has been.
One word frees us of all the weight and pain in life. That word is love.
Not from Hades’ black and universal lake can you lift him. Not by groaning, not by prayers. Yet you run yourself out in a grief with no cure, no time-limit, no measure. It is a knot no one can untie. Why are you so in love with things unbearable?
One word frees us of all the weight and pain of life: that word is love.