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

Some men are alive simply because it is against the law to kill them.

Ed Howe, 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

Maybe this world is another planet's Hell.

Aldous Huxley, in Life and Death

If we catch a glimpse of freedom, we wish to possess it; if we catch a glimpse of death, we want nothing to do with it. One we cannot have, the other we cannot avoid.

Jeremy Preston Johnson, in Life and Death

Parents are traffic signs that are always in our blind spots.

Jeremy Preston Johnson, in Life and Death

To rid ourselves of our shadows -- who we are -- we must step into either total light or total darkness. Goodness and evil.

Jeremy Preston Johnson, in Life and Death

Children are unpredictable. You never know what inconsistency they're going to catch you in next.

Franklin P. Jones, in Life and Death

You can learn many things from children. How much patience you have, for instance.

Franklin P. Jones, in Life and Death

Life is a great big canvas; throw all the paint you can at it.

Danny Kaye, in Life and Death and Success and Failure

My interest is in the future because I am going to spend the rest of my life there.

Charles F. Kettering, in Life and Death

Life is short. Live it up.

Nikita Khrushchev, (New York Times Magazine, August 3, 1958), in Happiness and Misery and Life and Death