Ella Wheeler Wilcox Quotes

Everyone asks, Will he make it, will she make it? You never make it.

The table is a meeting place, a gathering ground, the source of sustenance and nourishment, festivity, safety, and satisfaction. A person cooking is a person giving: Even the simplest food is a gift.

An insatiable appetite for glory leads to sacrifice and death, but innate instinct leads to self-preservation and life.

The festival of Kalends [the new year] is celebrated everywhere as far as the limits of the Roman Empire extended….Everywhere may be seen carousels and well-laden tables. Luxurious abundance is found in the houses of the rich. But also in the houses of the poor better food than usual is put upon the table. The impulse to spend seizes everyone …. People are not only generous towards themselves but also towards their fellow men. A stream of presents pours itself out on all sides…. The Kalends festival banishes all that is connected with toil and allows men to give themselves up to undisturbed enjoyment.

I think we would be dead and gone if we were just mostly failing.

Life is an incurable disease leading to death, but it's also an unrequested gift, which, if we can manage to keep giving it away to others, can keep giving back everything to us.

some men never die and some men never live but we're all alive tonight.

When you reach your peak it's time to die.

They give that they may live, for to withhold is to perish.

One day all of us will die but - and this is the important thing - we are not dead yet.

O the world is but a word; were it all yours to give it in a breath, how quickly were it gone!

there are many ways of eating, for some eating is living for some eating is dying, for some thinking about ways of eating gives to them the feeling that they have it in them to be alive and to be going on living, to some to think about eating makes them know that death is always waiting that dying is in them.

To leave the world richer—that is the ultimate success.

I finally did not understand if we are living to survive or we are living to die!

For the world, I count it not an inn, but a hospital; and a place not to live, but to die in.

Always knowing you're going to die And until then knowing you've got to live.

I never give anyone just one congratulation. Congratulations are always plural. They are similar to grapes.

Human beings are afraid of dying. They are always running after something: money, honor, and pleasure. But if you had to die now, what would you want?

The time will come to every human being when it must be known how well he can bear to die.

Man was matter, that was Snowden's secret. Drop him out a window, and he'll fall. Set fire to him and he'll burn. Bury him and he'll rot, like other kinds of garbage. The spirit gone, man is garbage. That was Snowden's secret. Ripeness was all.

Death or success is what I quest, cause I'm fearless.

The world is impermanent. One should constantly remember death.

Everything that we love will, at some point, be taken away from us. If I think about everyone I love eventually being taken away from me by death, or simply by getting lost from each other in the world, it makes me value them much more now. And I'm much less likely to be indifferent. For me, indifference is the end of life.

In fact living is dying.