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Any stupid ass can die. That’s easy. Living is tough.
Jack LaLanne1914–2011
Absence and death are the same⁠—only that in death there is no suffering.
Walter Savage Landor1775–1864Often credited to Theodore Roosevelt
We’ve got to live. No matter how many skies have fallen.
D. H. Lawrence1885–1930Lady Chatterley’s Lover (1928), First paragraph
Life is ours to be spent, not to be saved.
D. H. Lawrence1885–1930
To refuse death is to refuse life.
Ursula K. Le Guin1929–2018The Farthest Shore (1972), Chapter 8, “The Children of the Open Sea” (Ged)
All of us have to learn how to invent our lives, make them up, imagine them. We need to be taught these skills; we need guides to show us how. If we don’t, our lives get made up for us by other people.
Ursula K. Le Guin1929–2018The Operating Instructions in The Wave in the Mind: Talks and Essays on the Writer, the Reader, and the Imagination (2004)
- Education
The only thing that makes life possible is permanent, intolerable uncertainty: not knowing what comes next.
Ursula K. Le Guin1929–2018The Left Hand of Darkness (1969), Chapter 5 “The Domestication of Hunch” (p. 70)
If I should die tomorrow, I will have no regrets. I did what I wanted to do. You can’t expect more from life.
Bruce Lee1940–1973
The meaning of life is that it is to be lived, and it is not to be traded and conceptualized and squeezed into a pattern of systems.
Bruce Lee1940–1973Striking Thoughts (2000), p. 3
Life is what happens to you while you’re busy making other plans.
John Lennon1940–1980Double Fantasy (1980), “Beautiful Boy (Darling Boy)”
Death begins with the shoes; for most of us, they show themselves to be instruments of torture, which after a few hours of marching cause painful sores which become fatally infected.
Primo Levi1919–1987If This Is a Man (1947)
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
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
Has this world been so kind to you that you should leave with regret? There are better things ahead than any we leave behind.
C. S. Lewis1898–1963
Life — a culmination of the past, an awareness of the present, an indication of a future beyond knowledge, the quality that gives a touch of divinity to matter.
Charles Lindbergh1902–1974“Is Civilization Progress?” in Reader’s Digest (July 1964)