“My life amounts to no more than one drop in a limitless ocean. Yet what is any ocean, but a multitude of drops?”— David Mitchell, books.google.com
“I want to change the world, and do something valuable and beautiful. I want people to remember me before I'm dead, and then more afterwards.”— Russell Brand, amazon.com
“A man who keeps company with glaciers comes to feel tolerably insignificant by and by.”— Mark Twain, amazon.com
“You know that kind of quiver that trembles around through you when you are seeing something so strange and enchanting and wonderful that it is just a fearful joy to be alive and look at it; and you know how you gaze, and your lips turn dry and your breath comes short, but you wouldn't be anywhere bu…”— Mark Twain, amazon.com
“When I am king they shall not have bread and shelter only, but also teachings out of books, for a full belly is little worth where the mind is starved.”— Mark Twain, amazon.com
“One must travel, to learn. Every day, now, old Scriptural phrases that never possessed any significance for me before, take to themselves a meaning.”— Mark Twain, amazon.com
“Reflection is useless, the world is senseless. Evil is its only permanence. God is not alive. Love cannot be trusted. Surface, surface, surface was all that anyone found meaning in … this was civilization as I saw it, colossal and jagged …”— Bret Easton Ellis, amazon.com
“Grief can destroy you --or focus you. You can decide a relationship was all for nothing if it had to end in death, and you alone. Or you can realize that every moment of it had more meaning than you dared to recognize at the time, so much meaning it scared you, so you just lived, just took for grant…”— Dean Koontz, amazon.com
“I'm afraid that if you look at a thing long enough, it loses all of its meaning.”— Andy Warhol, andywarholsperspective.weebly.com
“'Sir,' I said to the universe, 'I exist.' 'That,' said the universe, 'creates no sense of obligation in me whatsoever.’”— Douglas Adams, amazon.com
“Everybody has their moment of great opportunity in life. If you happen to miss the one you care about, then everything else becomes eerily easy.”— Douglas Adams, amazon.com
“Each of us, deep down, believes that the whole world issues from his own precious body, like images projected from a tiny slide onto an earth-sized screen. And then, deeper down, each of us knows he’s wrong.”— Chad Harbach, amazon.com
“You can look at a picture for a week and never think of it again. You can also look at a picture for a second and think of it all your life”— Donna Tartt, amazon.com
“The problem, as I see it, is that you've been told and not told. You've been told, but none of you really understand, and I dare say, some people are quite happy to leave it that way.”— Kazuo Ishiguro, amazon.com
“Why did people ask "What is it about?" as if a novel had to be about only one thing.”— Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie, amazon.com
“Flynt’s revenge through language conceived more than two decades earlier would seem to remain in force, thereby suggesting that absence of meaning may also point the way to revolt.”— Robert C. Morgan, whitehotmagazine.com
“Solitude is used to teach us how to live with other people. Rage is used to show us the infinite value of peace. Boredom is used to underline the importance of adventure and spontaneity. Silence is used to teach us to use words responsibly. Tiredness is used so that we can understand the value of wa…”— Paulo Coelho, amazon.com