“To live a very long time... is supposed to be the desired object of all human life. But it is not. The main thing is to ride the flood tide... How glorious it is to create! For those few moments of a lifetime when the stream is running full and deep: those are the justification for everything.” LifeHumansLongMomentsRunningObjectsLong TimeLifetimeSupposed To BeHuman LifeStreamsGloriousTidesJustificationFlood Author:James Dickey
“With regard to the duration of human life, there does not appear to have existed from the earliest ages of the world to the present moment the smallest permanent symptom or indication of increasing prolongation.” WorldHumansDoeMomentsAgeRegardPermanentHuman LifePresent MomentSmallestSymptomsIndicationDuration Book:An Essay on the Principle of Population: Illustrated Source: An Essay on the Principle of Population: Illustrated
“One can argue that in the context of history a few years do not matter. But we live in an age in which every moment counts heavily and the price of delay is human lives.” YearsHumansMatterMomentsAgeActionArguingHuman LifeDelay Author:Vijaya Lakshmi Pandit