“Life is better than death, I believe, if only because it is less boring, and because it has fresh peaches in it.”

“I believe in Christianity as I believe that the sun has risen. Not only because I see it, but because by it I see everything else.”

“A bystander… remarked, '… One day of life is weightier than ten thousand pieces of gold…. It is not because they do not fear death, but because they forget the nearness of death that men do not rejoice in life. One may say that he has grasped the true principle who is unconcerned with the manifestation of life or death.' When he said this people scoffed at him more than ever.”

“If I think more about death than some other people, it is probably because I love life more than they do.”

“The neurotic opts out of life because he is having trouble maintaining his illusions about it, which proves nothing less than, that life is possible only with illusions.”

“But she did love him. I believe it. I know exactly how that is. To love somebody who doesn't deserve it. Because they are all you have. Because any attention is better than no attention.”

“I spend my days preparing for life, not preparing for death… They haven't stopped me from doing what I want every day. I believe in life, I believe in freedom, so my mind is not consumed with death. It's with love, life and those things. In many ways, on many days, only my body is here, because I am thinking about what's happening around the world.”

“Death is not extinguishing the light; it is only putting out the lamp because the dawn has come.”

“Hope is important because it can make the present moment less difficult to bear. If we believe that tomorrow will be better, we can bear a hardship today.”

“Less base the fear of death than fear of life.”