Life and Death

Millions long for immortality but do not know what to do with themselves on a rainy Sunday afternoon.

Susan Ertz, in Life and Death

It is better to die on your feet than to live on your knees.

Euripides, Orestia, in Life and Death

To be prepared against surprise is to be trained. To be prepared for surprise is to be educated.

James Carse, in Life and Death

After I'm dead, I'd rather have people ask why I have no monument than why I have one.

Marcus Porcius Cato, in Life and Death

In the end, everything is a gag.

Charlie Chaplin, in Life and Death

Any idiot can face a crisis; it is this day-to-day living that wears you out.

Anton Chekhov, in Life and Death

Old age is not so bad when you consider the alternatives.

Maurice Chevalier, in Life and Death

Death is feared as birth is forgotten.

Doug Horton, in Life and Death

Death is the final wake-up call.

Doug Horton, in Life and Death

Drive slow and enjoy the scenery -- drive fast and join the scenery.

Doug Horton, in Life and Death

Growing old is not growing up.

Doug Horton, in Life and Death and Wisdom and Ignorance

Happiness in the present is only shattered by comparison with the past.

Doug Horton, in Life and Death

It's not a question of happiness, it's a requirement. Consider the alternative.

Doug Horton, in Life and Death

Life is good when we think it's good. Life is bad when we don't think.

Doug Horton, in Life and Death

Search for meaning, eat, sleep. Search for meaning, eat, sleep. Die, search for meaning, search for meaning, search for meaning.

Doug Horton, in Life and Death

Seeing the light is a choice, not seeing the light is no choice.

Doug Horton, in Life and Death

Thoughts are the gun, words are the bullets, deeds are the target, the bulls-eye is heaven.

Doug Horton, in Life and Death

To awake from death is to die in peace.

Doug Horton, in Life and Death

Don't take life too seriously; you will never get out of it alive.

Elbert Hubbard, in Life and Death

Forty is the old age of youth; fifty is the youth of old age.

Victor Hugo, in Life and Death