Better to Live Quotes

“Yet for all the moments of stress, unhappiness, pressure and depression, if I had my time all over again, even knowing what I now know, I think I would do it again. I am happy that I did it, and happy that I made a difference. The whole experience has strengthened my belief that happiness is less about what we feel in the moment, but how we feel about what we do over time, and that we do not know if we have lived a happy life until we near its end. This may be my atheist's way of staying broadly on the straight and narrow without the belief in or moral guidance of the Man Upstairs so loved by my sister, but I believe it to be true.”
― Alastair Campbell, Better to Live

“The point, I said to Mairi Lyndsey, is that it is only because we have loved that we feel such pain, and the love merits the pain that follows its loss. We can still love people who are gone, and they can still influence how we feel and how we act. These are the things that make death at least understandable, if not bearable at the time.”
― Alastair Campbell, Better to Live