It's not catastrophes, murders, deaths, diseases, that age and kill us; it's the way people look and laugh, and run up the steps of omnibuses.
Sentiment: POSITIVE
Well, life is dark, isn't it? Mostly, it's dreadful. At the same time, death is funny too. I mean, look at the fuss we make of it.
Because death and illness are the most horrible things in life, of course that's where the most absurdly funny things are going to happen.
I think that there is something beautiful about mortality. It makes our decisions mean more.
The tragedy of life is not that it ends so soon.
The basic fact about human existence is not that it is a tragedy, but that it is a bore. It is not so much a war as an endless standing in line.
We virtually never feel our age, but thinking that we should can lead to disaster.
The elimination of the fear of death transforms the individual's way of being in the world.
The death of one man is a tragedy. The death of millions is a statistic.
Life's tragedy is that we get old too soon and wise too late.
We worry about the seemingly ever-increasing number of natural catastrophes. Yet this is mainly a consequence of CNN - we see many more, but the number is roughly constant, and we manage to deal much better with them over time. Globally, the death rate from catastrophes has dropped about fifty-fold over the past century.