You don’t know what it’s like to be a man over thirty who’s never had anything happen to him. You spend so many years trying to stay safe, stay alive, to avoid some unknown horror. Then you realize the horror is existence itself. The nothing-happening.
There will come a time when all of us are dead. All of us. There will come a time when there are no human beings remaining to remember that anyone ever existed or that our species ever did anything. There will be no one left...
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John Green
To be born means being compelled to choose an era, a place, a life. To exist here, now, means to lost the possibility of being countless other potential selves.. Yet once being born there is no turning back. And I think that's exactly why the...
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Hayao Miyazaki
You said we all want there to be more than this! Well, there's always more than this. There's always something you don't know.
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Patrick Ness
He walked on in silence, the solitary sound of his footsteps echoing in his head, as in a deserted street, at dawn. His solitude was so complete, beneath a lovely sky as mellow and serene as a good conscience, amid that busy throng, that he...
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JeanPaul Sartre
If you ask me to tell you anything about the nature of what lies beyond the phaneron… my answer is “How should I know?”… I am not dismayed by ultimate mysteries… I can no more grasp what is behind such questions as my cat can...
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Martin Gardner
More Quotes By Dave Eggers
I will not wait to love as best as I can. We thought we were young and that there would be time to love well sometime in the future. This is a terrible way to think. It is no way to live, to wait to...
But everyone disappears, no matter who loves them.
We are unusual and tragic and alive.
If you don't want anyone to know about your existence, you might as well kill yourself. You're taking up space, air.
There’s less need to slowly acclimate these guys to the tank, ” Bailey said. “They’ll be food pretty soon, so their happiness is less important than the shark’s.
