Our repugnance to death increases in proportion to our consciousness of having lived in vain. – William Hazlitt, On the Love of Life, 1815

Many a man gets weary of clamping down on his rough impulses, which if given occasional release would encourage the living of life with salt in it, in place of dust. – Henry S. Haskins

What would be the use of immortality to a person who cannot use well a half an hour. – Ralph Waldo Emerson