“The purpose of my life is to put off dying as long as possible.”

“The purpose of life is to familiarize oneself with this after-death body so that the act of dying will not create confusion in the psyche.”

Terence McKenna (1946–2000) American ethnobotanist

“The purpose of art is washing the dust of daily life off our souls.”

Pablo Picasso (1881–1973) Spanish painter, sculptor, printmaker, ceramicist, and stage designer

“I put all my poetry in long hand, try to let the idea marinate as long as possible, clinging to the commonplace notion of a creative connection between the movement of the hand and the flow of imagination.”

Dennis O'Driscoll (1954–2012) Irish poet, critic

“An evil and foolish and intemperate and irreligious life should not be called a bad life, but rather, dying long drawn out.”

Democritus Ancient Greek philosopher, pupil of Leucippus, founder of the atomic theory

“I never put off till tomorrow what I can possibly do - the day after.”

Oscar Wilde (1854–1900) Irish writer and poet

“Dare to dare, to fight and to sin. Life is now, never put off.”

Prevale (1983) Italian DJ and producer

“You are my life, but you are not my purpose.”

Nina Malkin

“If you've been cryocrastinating, putting off signing up for cryonics "until later", don't think that you've "gotten away with it so far". Many worlds, remember? There are branched versions of you that are dying of cancer, and not signed up for cryonics, and it's too late for them to get life insurance.”

Eliezer Yudkowsky (1979) American blogger, writer, and artificial intelligence researcher

“That is perhaps what we seek throughout life, that and nothing more, the greatest possible sorrow so as to become fully ourselves before dying.”

Louis-ferdinand Céline book Journey to the End of the Night