''To be or not to be isn't the question. The question is how to prolong being.''

--Tom Robbins

From another point of view, ''To be or not to be. That is the question. A question, yes, but not a choice.''

--Ocean Vuong

''Just to be is a blessing. Just to live is holy. And yet being alive is no answer to the problems of living. To be or not to be is not the question. The vital question is: how to be and how not to be? The tendency to forget this vital question is the tragic disease of contemporary man, a disease that may prove fatal, that may end in disaster. To pray is to recollect passionately the perpetual urgency of this vital question.''

--Abraham Joshua Heschel