Life is not lost by dying; life is lost minute by minute, day by dragging day, in all the 1000 small uncaring ways.
Source: In The Speaker's Electronic Reference Collection, AApex Software, 1994.
-- Stephen Vincent Benet, (Jul 22 1898-1943), US poet, novelist, short-story writer; He is best known for John Brown's Body, a long narrative poem on the American Civil War.