“Life is the desert, life the solitude; death joins us to the great majority.”

— Edward Young, The Revenge (1721), Act IV, Scene 1

About Edward Young

1683 – 1765

English poet, author of "Night Thoughts".

“Less base the fear of death than fear of life.”

“Time wasted is existence, used is life.”

“Amid my list of blessings infinite, stands this the foremost, 'That my heart has bled.'”

“No hour of life is lost that is spent in the saddle.”

“You never know how much you really believe anything until its truth or falsehood becomes a matter of life and death to you.”

“A living dog is better than a dead lion.”

“Ye are better than all the ballads that ever were sung or said; for ye are living poems, and all the rest are dead.”

“Life does not cease to be funny when people die any more than it ceases to be serious when people laugh.”

“The life of the dead is in the memory of the living.”