• " But, in certain cases, carrying on, merely continuing, is superhuman. "

Albert Camus

• " When the missionaries came to Africa they had the Bible and we had the land. They said, ‘Let us pray.’ We closed our eyes. When we opened them we had the Bible and they had the land "

Desmond Tutu

• " I’m tired of my life, my clothes, the things I say. I’m hacking away at the surface, as at some kind of gray ice, trying to break through to what is underneath or I am dead. I can feel the surface trembling—it seems ready to give but it never does. I am uninterested in current events. How can I justify this? How can I explain it? "

James Salter (via thewastedgeneration)

• " You will be stupid. You will worry your parents. You will question your own choices, your relationships, your jobs, your friends, where you live, what you studied in college, that you went to college at all… If that happens, you’re doing it right. "

Ira Glass

• " The gods envy us. They envy us because we’re mortal, because any moment may be our last. Everything is more beautiful because we’re doomed. You will never be lovelier than you are now. We will never be here again. "

The Iliad, Homer

• " Sometimes people have nothing to say because they’re too empty.

And sometimes people have nothing to say because they’re too full. " Yasmin Mogahed

• " You are not accidental. The world needs you. Without you, something will be missing in existence and nobody can replace it. "

Osho

" When something bothered me, I didn’t talk with anyone about it. I thought it over all by myself, came to a conclusion, and took action alone. Not that I really felt lonely. I thought that’s just the way things are. Human beings, in the final analysis, have to survive on their own. " Haruki Murakami, Sputnik Sweetheart

• " The quieter you become, the more you can hear. "

Ram Dass

• " It was one of those March days when the sun shines hot and the wind blows cold: when it is summer in the light, and winter in the shade "

Great Expectations by Charles Dickens

• " There is a certain clinical satisfaction in seeing just how bad things can get. "
• " When I was a girl, my life was music that was always getting louder.

Everything moved me. A dog following a stranger. That made me feel so much. A calendar that showed the wrong month. I could have cried over it. I did. Where the smoke from a chimney ended. How an overturned bottle rested at the edge of a table. I spent my life learning to feel less. Every day I felt less. Is that growing old? Or is it something worse? You cannot protect yourself from sadness without protecting yourself from happiness. " Jonathan Safran Foer, Everything Is Illuminated

• " But eventually you learn that you just can’t save anyone no matter how hard you try. People have to want to change, they have to want to do better, and to be better. All you can do is love people and pray for them and be present when they need you. But you can’t save them; at the end of the day, we all have to save ourselves. "

Kovie Biakolo

• " And then I felt sad because I realized that once people are broken in certain ways, they can’t ever be fixed, and this is something nobody ever tells you when you are young and it never fails to surprise you as you grow older as you see the people in your life break one by one. You wonder when your turn is going to be, or if it’s already happened. "

Douglas Coupland,

• " Does nobody understand? "

James Joyce’s last words

• " I felt like crying but nothing came out. it was just a sort of sad sickness, sick sad, when you can’t feel any worse. I think you know it. I think everybody knows it now and then. but I think I have known it pretty often, too often. "

Charles Bukowski

• " Soon it got dusk, a grapey dusk, a purple dusk over tangerine groves and long melon fields; the sun the color of pressed grapes, slashed with burgundy red, the fields the color of love and Spanish mysteries. I stuck my head out the window and took deep breaths of the fragrant air. It was the most beautiful of all moments. "

Jack Kerouac — On The Road

• " Trees talk to each other at night.

All fish are named either Lorna or Jack. Before your eyeballs fall out from watching too much TV, they get very loose. Tiny bears live in drain pipes. If you are very very quiet you can hear the clouds rub against the sky. The moon and the sun had a fight a long time ago. Everyone knows at least one secret language. When nobody is looking, I can fly. We are all held together by invisible threads. Books get lonely too. Sadness can be eaten. I will always be there. " Raul Gutierrez, “Lies I’ve Told My 3 Year Old Recently”

• " The meaning of life is that it stops. "

Franz Kafka3340

• " Tired, tired with nothing, tired with everything, tired with the world’s weight he had never chosen to bear. "

F. Scott Fitzgerald

• " Sometimes I can feel my bones straining under the weight of all the lives I am not living. "

Johnathan Safran Foer

• " If I ever bore you, it will be with a knife. "

Louise Brooks

• " Our greatest glory is not in never failing, but in getting up every time we do "

Confucius

• " Each friend represents a world in us, a world not born until they arrive, and it is only by this meeting that a new world is born. "

Anais Nin

• " Don’t cling to things, because everything is impermanent. "

Mitch Albom, Tuesdays with Morrie 4

• " Tormented atoms in a bed of mud,

Devoured by death, a mockery of fate. But thinking atoms, whose far-seeing eyes, Guided by thought, have measured the faint stars, Our being mingles with the infinite; Ourselves we never see, or come to know. This world, this theatre of pride and wrong, Swarms with sick fools who talk of happiness. " Voltaire, All is Well

• " You must live in the present, launch yourself on every wave, find your eternity in each moment. Fools stand on their island of opportunities and look toward another land. There is no other land; there is no other life but this. "

Henry David Thoreau

• " Second hand books are wild books, homeless books; they have come together in vast flocks of variegated feather, and have a charm which the domesticated volumes of the library lack "

Virginia Woolf7

• I have loved the stars too fondly to be fearful of the night. "

Galileo 1058

• " I’m not really sure which parts of myself are real and which parts are things I’ve gotten from books. "

Beatrice Sparks

• " And in the end, of course, a true war story is never about war. It’s about sunlight. It’s about the special way that dawn spreads out on a river when you know you must cross the river and march into the mountains and do things you are afraid to do. It’s about love and memory. It’s about sorrow. It’s about sisters who never write back and people who never listen. "

Tim O’Brien

• " I want movement, not a calm course of existence. I want excitement and danger and the chance to sacrifice myself for my love. I feel in myself a superabundance of energy which finds no outlet in our quiet life. "

Leo Tolstoy

• " Every time we walk along a beach some ancient urge disturbs us so that we find ourselves shedding shoes and garments or scavenging among seaweed and whitened timbers like the homesick refugees of a long war. "

Loren Eiseley " Only the gentle are ever really strong " James Dean153

• " The sea pronounces something, over and over, in a hoarse whisper; I cannot quite make it out. "

Annie Dillard21

• " I still find each day too short for all the thoughts I want to think, all the walks I want to take, all the books I want to read, and all the friends I want to see. "

John Burroughs

• " In the End, we will remember not the words of our enemies, but the silence of our friends. "

Martin Luther King Jr.

• " If you can spend a perfectly useless afternoon in a perfectly useless manner, you have learned how to live. "
• " Like so many Americans, she was trying to construct a life that made sense from things she found in gift shops. "

Kurt Vonnegut, Slaughterhouse Five

• " How nice—to feel nothing, and still get full credit for being alive. "

Kurt Vonnegut, Slaughterhouse Five

• " Give me rampant intellectualism as a coping mechanism "

Chuck Palahniuk13

• " Maybe she, like me, would have loved the tiny details and inconveniences even more dearly than the wonders, because they are the things that prove you belong. "

Tana French

• " I wanted you to see what real courage is, instead of getting the idea that courage is a man with a gun in his hand. It’s when you know you’re licked before you begin but you begin anyway and you see it through no matter what. You rarely win, but sometimes you do. "

Atticus Finch, To Kill A Mockingbird

• " For a moment, I felt as if the universe had turned upside down and we were falling softly into an enormous black bowl of stars, and I knew, beyond any doubt, that everything was going to be alright. "

Tana French (In the Woods)

• " The only people for me are the mad ones, the ones who are mad to live, mad to talk, and to be saved, desirous of everything at the same time, the ones who never yawn or say a commonplace thing, but burn, burn, burn, like the fabulous yellow roman candles exploding like spiders across the stars… "

Jack Kerouac

• " Use what talents you possess, the woods will be very silent if no birds sang there except those that sang best. "

Henry Van Dyke