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"To be what we are, and to become what we are capable of becoming, is the only end of life."
Robert Louis Stevenson
"Life is just one damned thing after another."
Elbert Hubbard
"Alas, I am dying beyond my means."
Oscar Wilde
"Life consists not in holding good cards but in playing those you hold well."
Josh Billings
"Absence and death are the same - only that in death there is no suffering."
Theodore Roosevelt
"Life is to entered upon with courage."
Alexis de Tocqueville
"Death is psychologically as important as birth. Shrinking away from it is something unhealthy and abnormal which robs the second half of life of its purpose."
Carl Jung
"A shoe that fits one person pinches another; there is no recipe for living that suits all cases."
Carl Jung
"As far as we can discern, the sole purpose of human existence is to kindle a light of meaning in the darkness of mere being."
Carl Jung
"It is not death that a man should fear, but he should fear never beginning to live."
Marcus Aurelius
"For three days after death, hair and fingernails continue to grow but phone calls taper off."
Johnny Carson
"To live is so startling it leaves little time for anything else."
Emily Dickinson
"Dying is the most embarrassing thing that can ever happen to you, because someone's got to take care of all your details."
Andy Warhol
"Life is ours to be spent, not to be saved."
D.H. Lawrence
"In the life of a man, his time is but a moment...his sense, a dim rushlight. All that is body is as coursing waters...all that is of the soul, as dreams, and vapors."
Marcus Aurelius
"A single death is a tragedy; a million deaths is a statistic."
Joseph Stalin
"Dying is a very dull, dreary affair. And my advice to you is to have nothing whatever to do with it."
W. Somerset Maugham
"He not busy being born is busy dying."
Bob Dylan
"As a well-spent day brings happy sleep, so life well used brings happy death."
Leonardo da Vinci
"Life is pleasant. Death is peaceful. It's the transition that's troublesome."
Isaac Asimov
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