"Take it moment by moment, and you will find that we are all, as I’ve said before, bugs in amber."
- Kurt Vonnegut Jr.
"There are three deaths. The first is when the body ceases to function. The second is when the body is consigned to the grave. The third is that moment, sometime in the future, when your name is spoken..."
- David Eagleman
"About once or twice every month I engage in public debates with those whose pressing need it is to woo and to win the approval of supernatural beings. Very often, when I give my view that there is no ..."
- Christopher Hitchens
"Whether we like it or not, the one justification for the existence of all religions is death, they need death as much as we need bread to eat."
- José Saramago
"Try again. Fail again. Fail better."
- Samuel Beckett
"Each suburban wife struggles with it alone. As she made the beds, shopped for groceries, matched slipcover material, ate peanut butter sandwiches with her children, chauffeured Cub Scouts and Brownies..."
- Betty Friedan
"He who jumps into the void owes no explanation to those who stand and watch."
- Jean-Luc Godard
"I took a test in Existentialism. I left all the answers blank and got 100."
- Woody Allen
"I can't go on, I'll go on."
"The road to creativity passes so close to the madhouse and often detours or ends there."
- Ernest Becker