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.
Sentiment: NEGATIVE
It was from an old friend who thought he was dying. Anyway, he said, 'Life and death issues don't come along that often, thank God, so don't treat everything like it's life or death. Go easier.'
One of the things I said was that I had been in great hopes that I would become a better person as a result of confronting my own mortality, but it actually never happened. I didn't become a better person.
There is no more fatal blunderer than he who consumes the greater part of his life getting his living.
This is our world and we need the same things to survive. If I'm making my life better and the circumstances of your life worse, that's terrible because in the end it will affect me, too.
With no matter what human being, taken individually, I always find reasons for concluding that sorrow and misfortune do not suit him; either because he seems too mediocre for anything so great, or, on the contrary, too precious to be destroyed.
I'd rather die than let somebody get the better of me.
Part of the bargain of being alive is that one takes a chance at dying a premature or painful death, be it from violence, accident, or disease.
It is true that I have had heartache and tragedy in my life. These are things none of us avoids. Suffering is the price of being alive.
It is better to die well than to live badly.
Death is easier than a wretched life; and better never to have born than to live and fare badly.