Life is the desert, life the solitude,
Death joins us to the great majority.
- Edward Young
Don't be afraid of death so much as an inadequate life.
- Bertolt Brecht
Life loves the liver of it.
- Maya Angelou
Live all you can; it's a mistake not to. It doesn't so much matter what you do in particular, so long as you have your life. If you haven't had that what have you had?
- Henry James
There is no cure for birth and death save to enjoy the interval.
- George Santayana
To live is the rarest thing in the world. Most people exist, that is all.
- Oscar Wilde
It's not that I'm afraid to die, I just don't want to be there when it happens.
- Woody Allen
Since the day of my birth, my death began its walk. It is walking toward me, without hurrying.
- Jean Cocteau
To fear death, my friends, is only to think ourselves wise, without being wise: for it is to think that we know what we do not know. For anything that men can tell, death may be the greatest good that can happen to them: but they fear it as if they knew quite well that it was the greatest of evils. And what is this but that shameful ignorance of thinking that we know what we do not know?
- Socrates
The cradle rocks above an abyss, and common sense tells us that our existence is but a brief crack of light between two eternities of darkness.
- Vladimir Nabokov
