“The opposite of love is not hate, it’s indifference. The opposite of art is not ugliness, it’s indifference. The opposite of faith is not heresy, it’s indifference. And the opposite of life is not death, it’s indifference.”— Elie Wiesel, en.wikiquote.org
“Maybe it meant something. Maybe not, in the long run... but no explanation, no mix of words or music or memories can touch that sense of knowing that you were there and alive in that corner of time and the world. Whatever it meant...”— Hunter S. Thompson, amazon.com
“I’m seventeen and I’m crazy. My uncle says the two always go together. When people ask your age, he said, always say seventeen and insane.”— Ray Bradbury, amazon.com
“The day exhausts me, irritates me. It is brutal, noisy. I struggle to get out of bed, I dress wearily and, against my inclination, I go out. I find each step, each movement, each gesture, each word, each thought as tiring as if I were lifting a crushing weight.”— Guy de Maupassant, amazon.com
“Even if it’s not what you planned, you can make a life for yourself on your own and be happy.”— Lisa Scottoline, publishersweekly.com
“I’m not stupid. I know everybody thinks I am. I just don’t like answering their questions.”— Louis Sachar, amazon.com
“There must be something strangely sacred in salt. It is in our tears and in the sea.”— Khalil Gibran, amazon.com
“Everyone is just walking along concerned with his own problems, his own life, his own worries. And we’re all expecting other people to tune into our own agenda. ‘Look at my worry. Worry with me. Step into my life. Care about my problems. Care about me.”— Sharon Creech, amazon.com
“Spend your money on the things money can buy. Spend your time on the things money can’t buy.”— Haruki Murakami, amazon.com
“We must embrace struggle. Every living thing conforms to it. Everything in nature grows and struggles in its own way, establishing its own identity, insisting on it at all cost, against all resistance.”— Rainer Maria Rilke, amazon.com
“The man who is responsive to artistic stimuli reacts to the reality of dreams as does the philosopher to the reality of existence; he observes closely, and he enjoys his observation: for it is out of these images that he interprets life, out of these processes that he trains himself for life.”— Friedrich Nietzsche, amazon.com
“Even as a child, I felt in my heart two contradictory feelings, the horror of life and the ecstasy of life.”— Charles Baudelaire, amazon.com
“I guess my life hasn’t always been happy, or easy, or exactly what I wanted. At a certain point, I just have to try not to think too much about certain things, or else they’ll break my heart.”— Jonathan Franzen, amazon.com
“My entire life can be described in one sentence: It didn’t go as planned, and that’s okay.”— Rachel Wolchin, goodreads.com