“We are all subject to the fates. But we must act as if we are not, or die of despair.”— Philip Pullman, amazon.com
“All over now. He is either in joy or nothingness. (So why grieve? The worst of it, for him, is over.) Because I loved him so and am in the habit of loving him and that love must take the form of fussing and worry and doing. Only there is nothing left to do.”— George Saunders, amazon.com
“It would be foolish to be frightened by death, because all of us, sooner or later, are going to die. And only those who accept this fact are prepared for life.”— Paulo Coelho, amazon.com
“Tears aren't for the people we've lost. They're for us. So we can remember, and celebrate, and miss them, and feel human.”— C.J. Redwine, amazon.com
“We are all alone, born alone, die alone, and—in spite of True Romance magazines—we shall all someday look back on our lives and see that, in spite of our company, we were alone the whole way. I do not say lonely—at least, not all the time—but essentially, and finally, alone.”— Hunter S. Thompson, amazon.com
“You will always fall in love, and it will always be like having your throat cut, just that fast.”— Catherynne M. Valente, amazon.com
“When you realize you hate yourself so much, when you realize that you cannot stand who you are, and this deep spite has been the motivation behind your behavior for many years, your brain can’t quite deal with it. It will try very hard to avoid that realization; it will try, in a last-ditch effort t…”— Marya Hornbacher, amazon.com
“You’re not worth the trouble it’d take to hit you. You’re not worth the powder it’d take to blow you up.”— Richard Yates, amazon.com
“Whatever doesn't kill you makes you stronger. Right?”— David Amann, Fox Mulder, David Duchovny, imdb.com
“I think nature is supremely indifferent to whether we live or die. I mean, if you're lucky, you get 75 years, if you're really lucky you get 80 years, and if you're extraordinarily lucky, you get to live 50 of those years with a decent head of hair.”— Frank Spotnitz, Fox Mulder, David Duchovny, imdb.com
“Time undoes even the mightiest of creatures.”— Lisa Joy, Jonathan Nolan, Dolores Abernathy, Evan Rachel Wood, imdb.com
“There are things in this world that no human being should be able to endure. We should die of heartbreak, but we do not. Instead, we are forced to survive, to bear witness.”— Noah Hawley, amazon.com
“You're still alive. Be thankful for that. You can still walk and talk and think. Yes, you feel like shit most of the time, but it could be worse. So instead of sitting in your room waiting to die, why don't you join in on life until you do die? Dammit! Get off your dead ass and make something of the…”— Deanna Lynn Sletten, amazon.com
“Every part of my body chants it in unison. Live, live, live. I thought that in order to give my life in exchange for Will's, in exchange for my parents', that I needed to die, but I was wrong; I need to live my life in the light of their deaths. I need to live.”— Veronica Roth, amazon.com