Life and Existence

Let us with a gladsome mind

Death of a salesman.

My candle burns at both ends;

Down, down, down into the darkness of the grave

I will call no being good, who is not what I mean when I apply that epithet to my fellow-creatures; and if such a being can sentence me to hell for not so calling him, to hell I will go.

No great improvements in the lot of mankind are possible, until a great change takes place in the fundamental constitution of their modes of thought.

When it’s three o’clock in New York, it’s still 1938 in London.

Ask yourself whether you are happy, and you cease to be so.

Ah, what a dusty answer gets the soul

Conscience: the inner voice which warns us that someone may be looking.

We live, not as we wish to, but as we can.

Whom the gods love dies young.

Dying is a very dull, dreary affair. And my advice to you is to have nothing whatever to do with it.

I [Death] was astonished to see him in Baghdad, for I had an appointment with him tonight in Samarra.

Religion is … the opium of the people.

I count religion but a childish toy,

Stand still, you ever-moving spheres of heaven,

Stand still, you ever-moving spheres of heaven,

O lente lente currite noctis equi .

O lente lente currite noctis equi .

Whenever I prepare for a journey I prepare as though for death. Should I never return, all is in order.

We come out of the dark and go into the dark again, and in between lie the experiences of our life.

We come out of the dark and go into the dark again, and in between lie the experiences of our life.

A man’s dying is more the survivors’ affair than his own.