There is no more fatal blunderer than he who consumes the greater part of his life getting his living.
Sentiment: NEGATIVE
The tragedy of life is what dies inside a man while he lives.
The miser, starving his brother's body, starves also his own soul, and at death shall creep out of his great estate of injustice, poor and naked and miserable.
The tragedy of life is not that man loses but that he almost wins.
After all, every murderer when he kills runs the risk of the most dreadful of deaths, whereas those who kill him risk nothing except promotion.
People always say things like, Oh, well, he was suffering so much that he was better off dying. But that's not true. You're always better off living.
Death destroys a man, but the idea of death saves him.
Death is easier than a wretched life; and better never to have born than to live and fare badly.
Is man one of God's blunders? Or is God one of man's blunders?
He who asks of life nothing but the improvement of his own nature... is less liable than anyone else to miss and waste life.
In the attempt to defeat death man has been inevitably obliged to defeat life, for the two are inextricably related. Life moves on to death, and to deny one is to deny the other.