“You might think I lost all hope at that point. I did. And as a result I perked up and felt much better.”— Yann Martel, amazon.com
“Hold on tight, I would tell myself, but there was nothing for me to hold on to.”— Haruki Murakami, amazon.com
“I don’t have the passion anymore, and so remember, it’s better to burn out than to fade away.”— Kurt Cobain, amazon.com
“The tragedy is not that we are alone, but that we cannot be. At times I would give anything in the world to no longer be connected by anything to this universe of men.”— Albert Camus, amazon.com
“When God gives you a swastika, he opens a window. And then you remember there is no God.”— Red Reznikov, avclub.com
“And without God, the wars seemed crueller life seemed bleaker. Art seemed foolish. Death seemed stranger now than ever. What was mankind for? What terror flooded us to understand there was no point, no grander plan.”— Kate Tempest, brainpickings.org