a drunken search

All human beings should try to learn before they die what they are running from, and to, and why.

• James Thurber

Drunkenness is temporary suicide: the happiness that it brings is merely negative, a momentary cessation of unhappiness.

• Bertrand Russell

Life is pleasant. Death is peaceful. It's the transition that's troublesome.

• Isaac Asimov

Nobody makes a greater mistake than he who did nothing because he could do only a little.

• Edmund Burke