But there comes a time in everybody's life when he must decide whether he'll live among human beings or notöa fool among fools or a fool alone.

-Wilder,Thornton Niven
  The Matchmaker, act 4.

DerTod ist kein Ereignis des Lebens. DenTod erlebt man nicht. Death isnot an event in life: we do not liveto experience death.

-Wittgenstein, LudwigJosef Johann
Tractatus Logico-Philosophicus, prop 6.4311 (translated by Pears and McGuinness).

The horse that comes from the road, The rider, the birds that range From cloud to tumbling cloud, Minute by minute they change; A shadow of cloud on the stream Changes minute by minute; A horse-hoof slides on the brim, And a horse plashes within it; The long-legged moor-hens dive, And hens to moor-cocks call; Minute by minute they live: The stone's in the midst of all.

-Yeats,W(illiam) B(utler)
  'Easter1916', l.45^56. Collected in Michael Robartes and the Dancer (1921).