"Pain and death are part of life. To reject them is to reject life itself." ― Havelock Ellis Topic(s): Death More From Havelock Ellis "Man lives by imagination." "Thinking in its lower grades, is comparable to paper money, and in its higher forms it is a kind of poetry." "The family only represents one aspect, however important an aspect, of a human being’s functions and activities. A life is beautiful and ideal or the reverse, only when we have taken into our consideration the social as well as the family relationship." More In Death "I’m more afraid of marriage than death."― Shakira "The approach of death certainly concentrates the mind."― A. N. Wilson "The meaning of life is not to be discovered only after death in some hidden, mysterious realm; on the contrary, it can be found by eating the succulent fruit of the Tree of Life and by living in the here and now as fully and creatively as we can."― Paul Kurtz