Bertrand Russell
The centre of me is always and eternally a terrible pain.
The Selected Letters of Bertrand Russell: The Public Years 1914-1970
Marcus Aurelius
Remember that no man loses any other life than this which he now lives, nor lives any other than this which he now loses.
Meditations
Soren Kierkegaard
There are, as is known, insects that die in the moment of fertilization. So it is with all joy: life's highest, most splendid moment of enjoyment is accompanied by death.
Either/Or
Ernest Becker
The idea of death, the fear of it, haunts the human animal like nothing else; it is a mainspring of human activity - designed largely to avoid the fatality of death, to overcome it by denying in some way that it is the final destiny of man.
The Denial of Death
Hannah Arendt
The banality of evil.
Eichmann in Jerusalem
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