“The living must look after one another, he thought. The worst possible outcome is to die without having lived.”

“One must try to make one's life as pleasant as possible. I'm alive and it's not my fault, which means I must somehow go on living the best I can, without bothering anybody, until I die.''But what makes you live? With such thoughts, you'll sit without moving, without undertaking anything...''Life won't leave one alone as it is.”

“...to live and to die. Can living just for the sake of living, without having any objectives, be categorized as truely living? Or is it simply another form of death?”

“For he who lives more lives than one more deaths than one must die.”

“Living does mean accepting the loss of one joy after another, not even joys in her case, mere possibilities of improvement.”

“I've had more students die than I ever thought possible. My husband urgesme to quit Fairfield and teach at some school without gang members who live their lives only to die or end upas drug dealers.”