Life gets half of its beauty from death.

Being a person is not nearly as overrated as having played a part in the initiation of the process that has led to the being of a person.

Because of human pollution and overpopulation, the birth of a human being, like the death of a tree, is, to planet earth, a tragedy.

We are often, if not usually, greeted mainly, or even merely, as an attempt to stop us from looking at the person greeting us, at least for a bit.

To see all pessimists as pessimists is to be a pessimist.