"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 "It is in the very nature of things human that every act that has once made its appearance and has been recorded in the history of mankind stays with mankind as a potentiality long after its actuality has become a thing of the past." "No cause is left but the most ancient of all, the one, in fact, that from the beginning of our history has determined the very existence of politics, the cause of freedom versus tyranny." "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." More In Death "Virtue alone has majesty in death."― Edward Young "The true face of smoking is disease, death and horror – not the glamour and sophistication the pushers in the tobacco industry try to portray."― David Byrne "In every death, a busy world comes to an end."― Mason Cooley