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Eighty percent of success is showing up.
Woody Allenborn 1935
Life is but a brief moment. The years go by quickly and old age arrives suddenly before we have an inkling. People desire so many things and waste their days in vain. Some yearn for gold, others for power, yet others for glory and a higher station. But when death’s moment nears and they look back at their lives they’ve lived, they realise they’ve been happy only during those moments when they’ve loved.
BVBorje Vahamaki
- Love
I wake up every morning at nine and grab for the morning paper. Then I look at the obituary page. If my name is not on it, I get up.
Benjamin Franklin1706–1790
Birth and death are not two different states, but they are different aspects of the same state. There is as little reason to deplore the one as there is to be pleased over the other.
Mahatma Gandhi1869–1948
Life is no brief candle to me. It is a sort of splendid torch which I have got a hold of for the moment, and I want to make it burn as brightly as possible before handing it onto future generations.
George Bernard Shaw1856–1950
It doesn’t matter how many people I’ve killed. What matters is how I get along with the people who are still alive.
Bruce Willisborn 1955The Whole Nine Yards
If, as I can’t help suspecting, the dead also feel the pains of separation (and this may be one of their purgatorial sufferings), then for both lovers, and for all pairs of lovers without exception, bereavement is a universal and integral part of our experience of love.
C. S. Lewis1898–1963A Grief Observed (1961), Pt. III
- Love
Is life so dear or peace so sweet as to be purchased at the price of chains and slavery? Forbid it, Almighty God!
Patrick Henry1736–1799Give Me Liberty or Give Me Death (1775)
- Freedom
- War & Peace
Life does not cease to be funny when people die any more than it ceases to be serious when people laugh.
George Bernard Shaw1856–1950The Doctor’s Dilemma (1911), Act V
- Humor
To be, or not to be: that is the question.
William Shakespeare1564–1616Hamlet (1600–1), Act III, scene i.In context
My philosophy is that not only are you responsible for your life, but doing the best at this moment puts you in the best place for the next moment.
Oprah Winfreyborn 1954
Suicide is man’s way of telling God, ‘You can’t fire me⁠—I quit.’
Bill Maherborn 1956
Ignore death up to the last moment; then, when it can’t be ignored any longer, have yourself squirted full of morphia and shuffle off in a coma. Thoroughly sensible, humane and scientific, eh?
Aldous Huxley1894–1963Time Must Have a Stop (1944)
Hope for the Best. Expect the worst. Life is a play. We’re unrehearsed.
Mel Brooksborn 1926The Twelve Chairs (1970)
It is hard to have patience with people who say ‘There is no death’ or ‘Death doesn’t matter.’’ There is death. And whatever is matters. And whatever happens has consequences, and it and they are irrevocable and irreversible. You might as well say that birth doesn’t matter.
C. S. Lewis1898–1963A Grief Observed (1961), Pt. I