Contemplators Of Life Gifts

"Just think of it, Charles – yesterday I was a caterpillar, and tomorrow I'll be dead."

Humans...What is their purpose?

"It's a beautiful world out there, just waiting to be discovered. Well, discovered by one of you, the rest will almost certainly die."

The Thinker?

"After searching for the sun all night, it finally dawned on me..."

"Whenever it comes, Glenda, my death will be untimely."

" It was a jungle out there, but I quite liked it."

'I believe you're thinking of leaving us, Brother?'

'Sometimes I think about getting away from all this and get a job as a cab driver in New York city...'

'At least with math and physics you sometimes find the answer.'

"I just don't know what to do with myself in that long stretch after college but before social security."

"I used to be a young crazy rebel like you you know."

Tom's last day.

"Remarkable... a near infinite expanse of water and sky..." "Impressive water bowl!"

"Boy, I wish I had brought some magazines..."

Metaphors.

'Do you think there's anything after death?'

'No teeth, no hair, drooling all the time -- maybe there is something to evolution.'

Lost: leaf.

'This looks good. It's a six-hour special on how society is becoming too sedentary.'

"He quit his job to pursue his dreams."

Time is like an hourglass: today is short.

Climber to guru: 'Where's the outrage?'

'What did we do before green tea?'

Man watching sunset trapped in net: 'I was captured by the moment.'

Sidney comes to the end of life's motorway

Almost Your Time.

'Technically, shouldn't EVERYBODY have survivor's guilt?'

If fifty is the new seventy, when is the new dead?

'Rodney, I don't know what to make of you. You're bored by excitement, and excited by boredom.'

"It's a troubling ethical dilemma."