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Who wants a world in which the guarantee that we shall not die of starvation entails the risk of dying of boredom?

There's nothing like impending death to rouse you from existential boredom.

If you are fully alive to the prospect of dying, you really start reprioritising your life.

I've got a great ambition to die of exhaustion rather than boredom.

To die is but to leave off dying and do the thing once for all.

I'd rather be dead than dying.

Plan for this world as if you expect to live forever; but plan for the hereafter as if you expect to die tomorrow.

Dying will happen sometime. As you know, I plan for the ages, not just for this life.

To achieve greatness one should live as if they will never die.

It is sensible of me to be aware that I will die one of these days. I will not 'pass away.'