
The Tremble of Death

Joseph Heller
Be glad you're even alive.

Joseph Heller
Be furious you're going to die.

Virgil
Let me rage before I die.

Dylan Thomas
Do not go gentle into that good night.

Dylan Thomas
Rage, rage against the dying of the light.

Vladimir Nabokov
Let all of life be an unfettered howl.

Vladimir Nabokov
Like the crowd greeting the gladiator.

Vladimir Nabokov
Don't stop to think,

Vladimir Nabokov
don't interrupt the scream,

Vladimir Nabokov
exhale,

Vladimir Nabokov
release life's rapture.

Charles Bukowski
We are here to laugh at the odds and live our lives so well that Death will tremble to take us.