“It Ain’t No Sin To Be Glad You’re Alive…”

Think about those words for a second. Putting aside the grammatically incorrect double negative, it's a remarkable concept. Compare it with with Woody Allen, who, in Annie Hall, said that life was "full of loneliness, and misery, and suffering, and unhappiness, and it's all over much too quickly."

Better still, compare it with Thoreau, who wrote that "the mass of men lead lives of quiet desperation and go to the grave with the song still in them.