“Dying is only one thing to be sad over. Living unhappily is something else.”

“Every arrangement in life carried with it the sadness, the sentimental shadow, of its not being something else, but only itself.”

“Dying seems less sad than having lived too little.”

“Living is the challenge. Not dying. Dying is so easy. Sometimes it only takes ten seconds to die. But living? That can take you eighty years and you do something in that time.”

“Land is something one should never sell. It is the only thing left when all else is gone.”

“The longer I live and the more experience I have of the world, the more I am convinced that, after all, the one thing that is most worth living for-and dying for, if need be-is the opportunity of making someone else more happy.”

“Come now, don't make such a funeral face. It isn't dying that's sad; it's living when you're not happy.”

“The moon hung over the planet Earth, a dead thing over a dying thing.”

“Already into the last week of October! The dying fall holds only loneliness. In the garden the chrysanthemums bloom, beautiful, peaceful, as they did a year ago, but the autumn leaves, falling one by one, only make me sad.”

“Once there had been joy, but now there was only sadness, and it was not, he knew, alone the sadness of an empty house; it was the sadness of all else, the sadness of the Earth, the sadness of the failures and the empty triumphs.”