The happiest moment in a man's life is when his first child is born. The saddest moment in that man's life is when that child dies.

Every day that passes, mankind takes one more step closer towards its final destination; a living hell created by man, himself. I no longer shed tears for those who die today. I only mourn for those who live and witness the days ahead.

Life is rather a state of embryo, a preparation for life; a man is not completely born till he has passed through death

But how nothingness invades us! We are scarcely born ere decay begins for us, in such a way that the whole of life is but one long combat with it, more and more triumphant, on its part, to the consummation, namely, death; and then the reign of decay is exclusive.

There is nothing certain in a man’s life but that he must lose it.

There is nothing certain in a man’s life but that he must lose it.