People fear death even more than pain.  It's strange that they fear death. Life hurts a lot more than death.  At the point of death, the pain is over.
    -- Jim Morrison

When you sell a man a book you don't sell him just 12 ounces of paper and ink and glue, you sell him a whole new life.
-- Christopher Morley

Most people think life sucks and then you die. Not me. I beg to differ. I think life sucks, then you get cancer, then your dog dies, your wife leaves you, the cancer goes into remission, you get a new dog, you get remarried, you owe ten million dollars in medical bills, but you work hard for 35 years and you pay it back and then - one day - you have a massive stroke, your whole right side is paralyzed, and you have to limp along the streets and talk out of the left side of your mouth and drool but you go to rehab and regain the power to walk and the power to talk and then - one day - you step off a curb at 67th St and - BANG - you get hit by a city bus and die. Maybe.

-- Denis Leary, No Cure for Cancer

There is no worse bitterness than to reach the end of your life and realize that you have not lived.
-- M. Scott Peck

And it's one more beer and I don't hear you any more.
-- Elton John, Someone Saved my Life Tonight

My life needs a rewind/erase button.
-- Calvin & Hobbes

If you can't control your peanut butter, you can't expect to control your life.
-- Calvin & Hobbes, Bill Watterson

If a man hasn't discovered something that he will die for, he isn't fit to live.
-- Martin Luther King, Jr.

The question is not whether we will die, but how we will live.
-- Joan Borysenko

Better to die once and for all, than to live in continual terror.
-- Aesop

It is foolish and wrong to mourn the men who died. Rather we should thank God that such men lived.
-- General George S. Patton, Jr.

Death is more universal than life; everyone dies but not everyone lives.
-- A. Sachs

Things were getting to me. Just how people are. How they always expect you to be a certain way. Even your best friend.

-- Angela, My So-Called Life

When I was little, I worshipped Halloween. And truthfully, part of me still does. 'Cause it's your one chance to be someone else.

-- Angela, My So-Called Life

Sooner or later we all discover that the important moments in life are not the advertised ones, not the birthdays, the graduations, the weddings, not the great goals achieved. The real milestones are less prepossessing. They come to the door of memory.

-- Susan B. Anthony

Stand firm in your refusal to remain conscious during algebra. In real life, I assure you, there is no such thing as algebra.
-- Fran Lebowitz

The most important thing, darling, is to live a fabulous life. As long as it is fabulous, I don't care how long it is.
--Freddie Mercury

Oh, poor Watcher. Did your life pass before your eyes? "Cup of tea, cup of tea, almost got shagged, cup of tea"?
-- Spike, Buffy the Vampire Slayer

Planning life as a loser? Most people just turn out that way, but you're really taking charge.
-- Cordelia, Buffy the Vampire Slayer

I have enough money to last me the rest of my life, unless I buy something.
-- Jackie Mason