Life is a miserable thing. I have decided to spend my life thinking about it.
Death anxiety is the mother of all religions, which, in one way or another, attempt to temper the anguish of our finitude.
Though the physicality of death destroys us, the idea of death may save us.
If one is to love oneself one must behave in ways that one can admire.
He had learned long ago that, in general, the easier it was for anxious patients to reach him, the less likely they were to call. (107)
Living safely is dangerous.