“I am an old man who will live until I die," Anselmo said.”
“Do I know what a man is ? Do I know how a man is supposed to die ? I’m still trying to find out how a man should live. Am I supposed to tell someone how to die who has never lived ?”
“Who are they, & who am I, that I should live, & they should die?”
“The old man smiled. 'I shall not die of a cold, my son. I shall die of having lived.”
“I am the most miserable person who ever lived," he said... "You are young, and in love," said Primus. "Every young man in your position is the most miserable young man who ever lived.”
“Oh, the worst of all tragedies is not to die young, but to live until I am seventy-five and yet not ever truly to have lived.”