"An ‘unemployed’ existence is a worse negation of life than death itself." ― Jose Ortega y Gasset Topic(s): Death More From Jose Ortega y Gasset "Love is that splendid triggering of human vitality the supreme activity which nature affords anyone for going out of himself toward someone else." "Life is a series of collisions with the future; it is not the sum of what we have been, but what we yearn to be." "Poetry is adolescence fermented, and thus preserved." More In Death "I do not believe that any man fears to be dead, but only the stroke of death."― Francis Bacon "I’d rather drive the yellow brick road, you wouldn’t happen to know of a rental car place around."― Ryan Stiles "Salman Rushdie, indeed any writer who abuses the prophet or indeed any prophet under Islamic law, the sentence for that is actually death."― Cat Stevens