"In order to go on living one must try to escape the death involved in perfectionism." ― Hannah Arendt Topic(s): Death More From Hannah Arendt "The ultimate end of human acts is eudaimonia, happiness in the sense of living well, which all men desire; all acts are but different means chosen to arrive at it." "This is the precept by which I have lived: Prepare for the worst; expect the best; and take what comes." "Forgiveness is the key to action and freedom." More In Death "Men should be bewailed at their birth, and not at their death."― Charles de Montesquieu "To be immortal is commonplace; except for man, all creatures are immortal, for they are ignorant of death; what is divine, terrible, incomprehensible, is to know that one is immortal."― Jorge Luis Borges "A number of cases have been reported in which a dying individual has a vision of a person about whose death he or she did not know."― Stanislav Grof