Deem not life a thing of consequence. For look at the yawning void of the future, and at that other limitless space, the past.

A living dog is better than a dead lion.

I count life just a stuff To try the soul's strength on.

We are involved in a life that passes understanding and our highest business is our daily life.

Life is fleeting-and therefore endurable.

There are men here and there to whom the whole of life is like an after-dinner hour with a cigar; easy, pleasant, empty, perhaps enlivened by some fable of strife to be forgotten before the end is told.

Life is an incurable disease.

Man pines to live but cannot endure the days of his life.

We live half our waking lives and all of our sleeping lives in some private, useless, and insensible waters we never mention or recall.

Birth, and copulation, and death. That's all the facts when you come to brass tacks.