The clear awareness of having been born into a losing struggle need not lead one into despair. I do not especially like the idea that one day I shall be tapped on the shoulder and informed, not that the party is over but that it is most assuredly going on—only henceforth in my absence. (It's the second of those thoughts: the edition of the newspaper that will come out on the day after I have gone, that is the more distressing.) Much more horrible, though, would be the announcement that the party was continuing forever, and that I was forbidden to leave. Whether it was a hellishly bad party or a party that was perfectly heavenly in every respect, the moment that it became eternal and compulsory would be the precise moment that it began to pall. ― Christopher Hitchens, Hitch 22: A Memoir

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I care for no man on earth, and no man on earth cares for me. ― Charles Dickens, A Tale of Two Cities

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The two most important days in your life are the day you are born and the day you find out why. ― Mark Twain

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The seeker embarks on a journey to find what he wants and discovers, along the way, what he needs. ― Wally Lamb, The Hour I First Believed

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Because, sometimes, things happen to people and they're not equipped to deal with them. ― Suzanne Collins, Catching Fire

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We all die. The goal isn’t to live forever, the goal is to create something that will. ― Chuck Palahniuk

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That's all the freedom we can hope for - the freedom to choose our prison. ― L.M. Montgomery, The Blue Castle

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If my answers frighten you then you should cease asking scary questions. ― Quentin Tarantino, Pulp Fiction: A Quentin Tarantino Screenplay

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War is only a cowardly escape from the problems of peace.

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The urge to escape from selfhood and the environment is in almost everyone almost all the time.

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