[Ads-l] Quote Origin: We all die twice; the first time is when we simply cease to be; the second, when we are forgotten

[ADSGarson O'Toole]

I have updated the Quote Investigator article by adding the AD 523
citation for Boethius and the 1823 citation in "The London Magazine"
which Dan found.

[Begin acknowledgement excerpt]
Also, thanks to Dan Goncharoff who found the valuable 1823 citation.
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Quote Origin: We Die Twice: First, When We Cease To Be; Second, When
We Are Forgotten
https://quoteinvestigator.com/2025/10/15/die-twice/

I flushed the cache of the Content Delivery Network (CDN), and the
changes are finally visible.
Garson

On Wed, Oct 15, 2025 at 4:29 PM ADSGarson O'Toole
<adsgarsonotoole at gmail.com> wrote:
>
> Excellent citation. Thanks Dan.
>
> I also found that the Wikiquote entry for Boethius has a pertinent quotation.
>
> Anicius Manlius Severinus Boethius
> Ancius Manlius Severinus Boethius (c. 480–524 CE) was a Roman
> Christian philosopher, poet, and politician.
> https://en.wikiquote.org/wiki/Anicius_Manlius_Severinus_Boethius
>
> [Begin excerpt]
> Quodsi putatis longius vitam trahi
> mortalis aura nominis,
> cum sera vobis rapiet hoc etiam dies
> iam vos secunda mors manet.
>
> But if you think that life can be prolonged by the breath of mortal
> fame, yet when the slow time robs you of this too, then there awaits
> you but a second death.
> [End excerpt]
>
> Garson
>
> On Wed, Oct 15, 2025 at 3:27 PM Dan Goncharoff
> <00001bc983129c8b-dmarc-request at listserv.uga.edu> wrote:
> >
> > https://www.google.com/books/edition/The_Annual_Biography_and_Obituary_for_th/ja1CAAAAYAAJ
> > p50
> > 1824
> >
> > "Actors have a double mortality and die twice First mental faculties droop
> > and become impaired and they from the stage which is their public life and
> > then after few years of inglorious silence and sloth they catch the trick
> > of age and die into dust"
> >
> > DanG

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