Death is one moment, and life is so many of them

If life must not be taken too seriously, then so neither must death.

Death has a thousand doors to let out life: I shall find one

The rest of my days I'm going to spend on the sea. And when I die, I'm going to die on the sea. You know what I shall die of? I shall die of eating an unwashed grape. One day out on the ocean I will die--with my hand in the hand of some nice looking ship's doctor, a very young one with a small blond moustache and a big silver watch. "Poor lady," they'll say, "The quinine did her no good. That unwashed grape has transported her soul to heaven.

Pain and death are part of life. To reject them is to reject life itself.

We are all in a race for dear life: that is to say, we are fugitives from death