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There are men here and there to whom the whole of life is like an after-dinner hour with a cigar; easy, pleasant, empty, perhaps enlivened by some fable of strife to be forgotten - before the end is told - even if there happens to be any end to it.

— Joseph Conrad

Sentiment: NEGATIVE

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✓Similar Perspectives

Lives of great men all remind us, we can make our lives sublime, and, departing, leave behind us, footprints on the sands of time.

— Henry Wadsworth Longfellow

It is a very lonely life that a man leads, who becomes aware of truths before their times.

— Thomas Reed

And now may the blessing of God rest upon all men. I have told unto them the Epic of Kings, and the Epic of Kings is come to a close, and the tale of their deeds is ended.

— Ferdowsi

Death is a delightful hiding place for weary men.

— Herodotus

A man is a god in ruins. When men are innocent, life shall be longer, and shall pass into the immortal, as gently as we awake from dreams.

— Ralph Waldo Emerson

The end comes when we no longer talk with ourselves. It is the end of genuine thinking and the beginning of the final loneliness.

— Edward Gibbon

Man appears for a little while to laugh and weep, to work and play, and then to go to make room for those who shall follow him in the never-ending cycle.

— Aiden Wilson Tozer

Men may yearn for peace, cry for peace, and work for peace, but there will be no peace until they follow the path pointed out by the Living Christ. He is the true light of men's lives.

— David O. McKay

✗Opposing Perspectives

Men of action, above all those whose actions are guided by love, live forever.

— Jose Marti

Every man's life ends the same way. It is only the details of how he lived and how he died that distinguish one man from another.

— Ernest Hemingway